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Auburn Tigers football represents Auburn University in NCAA Division I-A college football. The team is currently coached by Tommy Tuberville. Past coaches include John Heisman, Mike Donahue, Ralph \"Shug\" Jordan, Pat Dye and Terry Bowden. Auburn\'s Jordan-Hare Stadium has a capacity of 87,451, ranking as the ninth-largest on-campus stadium in the NCAA. The Tigers played the first football game in the Deep South in 1892, with the program\'s first bowl appearance coming the 1936 season in the sixth Bacardi Bowl played in Havana, Cuba. As of 2005, AU Football has had 76 winning seasons, 33 bowl appearances, eleven 10+ win seasons, eleven undefeated seasons and ten conference championships. Auburn has played in the Southeastern Conference since its inception in 1933 and have won six SEC Conference Championships, and since the division of the conference in 1992, six Western Division championships (1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005)[1] and three trips to the SEC Championship game (1997, 2000 and 2004).
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