“Mark your calendars!” said the Auburn football Twitter account. For when? Just eight years down the road. Today the Tigers and the Hurricanes made it official and set a home-and-home series for 2029 and 2030, opening at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
According to AuburnTigers.com, Auburn leads Miami 7-4 in all-time matchups, but the two teams have not faced off since 1984. The Tigers’ most recent home-and-home series with an ACC opponent was Clemson in 2016-17.
Despite the excitement of an Auburn-Miami matchup, fans are not letting go of the fact that this series is scheduled so far in the future. In 2030, it will have been 20 years since Cam Newton played Auburn football, for example.
Mark your calendars! #WarEagle
— Auburn Football (@AuburnFootball) June 17, 2021
Auburn Undercover’s Brandon Marcello reports that the Tigers have already scheduled home-and-home series up to the year 2030, including Penn State, Cal, Baylor, and UCLA. Despite the coolness of a Hurricanes-Tigers series, no one is jumping to plan a trip to Miami eight years in advance.
this dude will be a senior citizen when Auburn plays Miami pic.twitter.com/SqOSrzwcla
— Nathan King (@NathanKing247) June 17, 2021
The fifth-year seniors in that first Auburn-Miami game will start their freshman year of high school this fall.
— Josh Vitale (@JoshVitale) June 17, 2021
Football scheduling is wild.
So Auburn will play Miami in 3042 😂
— Jake “JBOY” Crain (@JakeCrain_) June 17, 2021
Live look at me heading to cover the game pic.twitter.com/9tp9fX2MFs
@mplmartin98 looks like we got 8 years of smack talk ahead of us 😏
— Brooks E. Hamilton (@brooksehamilton) June 17, 2021
— Garrett Brown 🦚 (@crazylegs704) June 17, 2021
While most of us probably can’t picture what life will be like for ourselves in eight years, you can rest assured that there will still be Auburn football games to attend. The Tigers will play on September 1, 2029, in Miami, and the Hurricanes will make the trip to the plains the following year on August 30.