1957 Auburn Tigers football team

1957 Auburn Tigers football
AP Poll national champion
SEC champion
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 2
APNo. 1
Record10–0 (7–0 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumCliff Hare Stadium
Legion Field
Seasons
← 1956
1958 →
1957 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 1 Auburn $ 7 0 0 10 0 0
No. 7 Ole Miss 5 0 1 9 1 1
No. 14 Mississippi State 4 2 1 6 2 1
No. 17 Florida 4 2 1 6 2 1
No. 13 Tennessee 4 3 0 8 3 0
Vanderbilt 3 3 1 5 3 2
LSU 4 4 0 5 5 0
Georgia Tech 3 4 1 4 4 2
Georgia 3 4 0 3 7 0
Tulane 1 5 0 2 8 0
Alabama 1 6 1 2 7 1
Kentucky 1 7 0 3 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1957 Auburn Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Auburn University in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1957 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Ralph "Shug" Jordan, the Tigers compiled a perfect 10–0 record (7–0 in the SEC), shut out six of ten opponents, won the SEC championship, and outscored all opponents by a total of 207 to 28.[1][2]

The national championship was split with Auburn No. 1 in the AP Poll and Ohio State, despite one loss, ranked No. 1 by the UPI coaches poll, Football Writers Association of America and International News Service.[3][4] In later analyses, Auburn was chosen as national champion by the majority of selectors, including the Billingsley Report, College Football Researchers Association, Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation, Poling System, Sagarin Ratings, and Williamson System.[3] This was Auburn’s last national championship until 2010.

Auburn end Jimmy Phillips was a consensus first-team pick on the 1957 All-America college football team.[5] Phillips and fellow end Jerry Wilson were both selected as first-team picks on the 1957 All-SEC football team. Center Jackie Burkett, tackle Ben Preston, and back Bill Atkins were named to the All-SEC second team.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ "1957 Auburn Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  2. ^ Mark Inabinett (November 23, 2017). "Auburn's 1957 national-championship team: 'There wasn't a lot of hoopla about it'". AL.com.
  3. ^ a b 2018 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2018. pp. 113, 120. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
  4. ^ The USA Today College Football Encyclopedia 2009–2010. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing. 2009. p. 79. ISBN 978-1602396777.
  5. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 9. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  6. ^ Mercer Bailey (December 2, 1957). "Phillips, Michaels, Taylor Head All-Southeastern Football Team". Park City Daily News.
  7. ^ "Florida Back On All-SEC". St Petersburg Times. December 3, 1957.
  8. ^ "Phillips And Wilson Are All-Conference". The Anniston Star. November 29, 1957. p. 11. Archived from the original on June 11, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon