fsu beat auburn tigers for the 2013 bcs championship.
fsu beat auburn tigers for the 2013 bcs championship.
who did fsu beat for the 2013 bcs championship?
auburn tigers
after gene chizik's termination at the end of the 2012 season, athletic director jay jacobs formed a search committee headed by former auburn heisman trophy winners bo jackson and pat sullivan along with fellow former player mac crawford to find the program's next head coach. the committee unanimously selected arkansas state head coach and former auburn offensive coordinator from 2009 to 2011 gus malzahn. on december 4, 2012, it was officially announced that malzahn would assume the position of head coach at auburn university. he is currently in his third season, and his 2013 tigers went 12–2 and won the sec championship versus the missouri tigers. the season was highlighted by two of the greatest plays in auburn football history. after allowing number 25 georgia to take a 38–37 lead with less than two minutes remaining, quarterback nick marshall threw a 73-yard hail mary pass to ricardo louis for the game-winning touchdown after being tipped up by two georgia defenders. the tigers put the game away in the final 25 seconds and won 43–38 over the bulldogs. auburn also defeated number 1 alabama in dramatic fashion. after lobbying for one second to be restored to the game clock in the fourth quarter, tied 28–28 with the tigers, alabama head coach nick saban chose to attempt a 57-yard game-winning field goal. the tide was 0–3 in field goal attempts on the day with veteran kicker cade foster, thus chose to use adam griffith for the final attempt. griffith's kick did not have the distance and the ball landed in the hands of chris davis, who returned the ball unofficially 109 yards end zone to end zone for an auburn touchdown and sealed a victory for the tigers along with a berth in the sec championship game. auburn would face number 5 missouri in the 2013 sec championship game, eventually winning 59–42 in an offensive showdown which produced 677 total yards for auburn, including a 304-yard performance by game mvp tre mason. the tigers faced number 1 florida state in the 2014 bcs national championship game in pasadena, california, on january 6, 2014. they lost by a score of 34–31, as florida state scored the go-ahead touchdown with thirteen seconds remaining in the game, ending the sec streak of winning bcs national championships at seven. they were only the second sec team to lose in a bcs championship game, and the only sec team to do so against non-sec competition. the tigers finished number 2 in both the final ap and coaches polls. since the end of the 2013 season malzahn's auburn tigers have compiled a record of 27–13 and 13-11 in sec play. auburn finished 8–5 in 2014, including a 34–31 loss to wisconsin in the 2014 outback bowl. before the 2015 season, auburn was ranked number six and was supposed to be in the mix for the college football playoff but, after an almost upset by fcs jacksonville state and an embarrassing loss at thirteen ranked lsu at the beginning of the season, those dreams were gone. auburn compiled a 6–6 record, 2-6 in the sec and a trip to the birmingham bowl to face memphis. auburn defeated memphis 31–10 in front of a crowd of 59,430, to end its season with a 7–6 record. this season was considered the worst since the 2012 season when auburn went 3-9 and 0-8 in sec play.
history of auburn tigers football
bullet::::- bcs championship game record – net rushing yards by a quarterback (200)









































bullet::::- bcs championship game record – rushing touchdowns (3), tied lendale white in same game









































bullet::::- bcs championship game record – pass completions (30)









































bullet::::- bcs championship game record – passes without an interception (40)









































bullet::::- bcs championship game record – completion percentage (75.0%)









































bullet::::- bcs championship game record – points scored (20), tied peter warrick









































bullet::::- ut record – touchdown passes, season (26), tied with chris simms, surpassed by colt mccoy









































bullet::::- ut record – passing completion percentage, careers (61.8%), surpassed by mccoy
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