Just more than 50 miles south of Berkeley, Cali. is Cupertino — the home of Apple Inc.

Evidently, the drive wasn’t too much for Apple CEO Tim Cook — a native of Mobile, Ala. and graduate of Auburn University — who sported an Auburn polo for Saturday’s game against Cal.

Cook, who took over after Steve Jobs resigned in 2011, graduated from Auburn in 1982 with a degree in industrial engineering. Cook went on to get his masters in business administration from Duke University in 1988.

In 2010, Cook returned to Auburn as a commencement speaker and revealed he decided to leave Compaq Computer Company, where he served as the vice president, after a brief conversation with Jobs in 1998.

“On that day in early 1998, I listened to my intuition, not the left side of my brain or for that matter even the people who knew me best,” Cook said during his commencement speech. “No more than five minutes into my initial interview with Steve, I wanted to throw caution and logic to the wind and join Apple.”

Cook’s allegiance to Auburn is evident in his biography on the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter.