Auburn Tigers

The Tigers covered none of their seven February spreads in 2025-26 and won one game that month. They finished the season by winning all five NIT games.

February

One win, six losses, no cover in seven lined games, 5.44 units lost on the moneyline. The month opened with four straight losses from 7 to 18 February, among them 85-91 at Mississippi State at -238. January, just before it, had gone 5-4 and made 3.23 units.

The road

Auburn was 11-4 at home, 4-4 at neutral sites and 2-8 in road games. It covered 3 of 10 road spreads; 20 programs had a worse road rate and five the same one. The best price of the season still came away: 76-67 at Florida at +550 on 24 January.

Favored and beaten

Favored 21 times, the Tigers went 14-7 and covered nine; one unit on them over the 19 priced lost 3.8, and only 35 teams lost more in that role. The shortest prices that failed were at home: 79-85 to Ole Miss at -650 on 28 February and 88-90 to Texas A&M at -298. As underdogs it was 2-9, four covers in 11.

Points and totals

Auburn scored 82.73 a game, a figure 40 teams topped, and allowed 79.39. Nineteen games went over and 14 under. Overall the spread finished 13 covers and 19 misses.

The SEC and the NIT

Alabama and Tennessee each won both meetings and Auburn covered none of the four; the second Tennessee game, 62-72 at +200, ended the SEC tournament. In the NIT the Tigers beat South Alabama, Seattle U, Nevada, Illinois State and, in the final, Tulsa.

The Players Era Festival

Auburn beat Oregon in a game with no line, lost 72-102 to Michigan at +180, and beat St. John’s 85-74 at +180.

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