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Where does USA TODAY Sports rank the home of the Tigers ahead of the 2025 season?
If you were to ask SEC football players, current and past, most would tell you that Jordan-Hare Stadium is one of the toughest venues to play in.
From the pregame eagle flight to many classic finishes, Jordan-Hare Stadium is a bucket list stadium for college football fans everywhere. How does the home of the Auburn Tigers rank among the rest of the SEC heading into the 2025 season? Blake Toppmeyer of USA TODAY Sports shares his take on the subject. Toppmeyer recently ranked every SEC stadium from the toughest to the least tough, placing Jordan-Hare in the middle at No. 8 out of 16 stadiums.
When describing Jordan-Hare Stadium, Toppmeyer channels his inner Nick Saban, who once called the stadium “haunted” by saying that Jordan-Hare “uncorks a strange voodoo magic on opponents” due to some of the crazy finishes the stadium has seen in recent years. The most recent example came last November when Auburn defeated No. 15 Texas A&M in four overtimes. Other games of note include the “Kick Six”, the “Prayer at Jordan-Hare” and the 1994 game against LSU, where Auburn erased a 23-9 deficit by picking off LSU quarterback Jaime Howard five times, returning three for touchdowns, in the final quarter to win, 30-26.
Jordan-Hare Stadium ranks above several venues including Texas’ Darryl K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium, Davis Wade Stadium at Mississippi State, and Kroger Field at Kentucky, but is below several iconic venues such as South Carolina’s Williams Brice Stadium, Georgia’s Sanford Stadium, and Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, which ranks No. 1.
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Publish date : 2025-07-13 18:00:00
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