Auburn will host the No. 2 and No. 3 teams in the FPI rankings this season in Alabama and Georgia. Both teams are projected to win ten games and play in the College Football Playoff. Auburn has not beaten the Crimson Tide since 2019, and it has been even longer since they beat the Bulldogs. The last win over Georgia was in 2017.

How much will the Auburn Tigers improve this season? ESPN shares their early forecast using the Football Power Index.

The Tigers are the 14th-ranked team in ESPN’s 2025 College Football Power Index rankings that were released on Tuesday and have the 18th-best odds to make the College Football Playoff. The rating system gives the Tigers a 21.8% chance make the CFP, a feat the program has yet to achieve in either iteration of the playoffs.