Auburn vs. California by the numbers
Auburn (1-0) at California (1-0)
9:30 p.m. CDT Saturday (ESPN)
California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California
0 Previous games between Auburn and California.
1 Previous game for Auburn on the home field of a Pac-12 opponent. On Sept. 2, 2002, the Tigers lost 24-17 to Southern Cal in Los Angeles. Auburn has a 7-2 record against opponents from the Pac-12 and its ancestral conferences, with three of the games in Auburn, two in bowls, two at neutral sites and one in Birmingham.
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2 Conference Offensive Lineman of the Week Award winners from Week 1 of the 2023 season are in Saturday’s game. Auburn’s Gunner Britton was the SEC Offensive Lineman of the Week after playing left guard, right tackle and left tackle during a 59-14 victory over Middle Tennessee. California’s Brian Driscoll won the Pac-12 Offensive Lineman of the Week Award as the Golden Bears’ left guard in a 58-21 victory over North Texas.
3 TD runs for Auburn QB Robby Ashford in the second quarter of the Tigers’ 59-14 victory over Massachusetts last week. Ashford scored on runs of 10 yards, 1 yard and 4 yards as Auburn expanded a 10-7 lead to a 31-7 advantage in a span of 10:13. Ashford became the first Auburn quarterback to run for three touchdowns in a game since Cam Newton in a 65-43 victory over Arkansas on Oct. 16, 2010. Newton ran for 188 yards on 25 carries in that game. Ashford had 51 yards on nine rushing attempts.
3 Consecutive victories for California against SEC opponents. The Golden Bears beat Tennessee 45-31 in 2007 and Ole Miss 27-16 in 2017 and 28-10 in 2019. California has a 6-16 record against SEC opponents, including 3-1 at home. Only one of the meetings has come in a bowl – the Bears’ 13-0 victory over Alabama in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, 1938.
3 Previous games have been played by Auburn in California. The Tigers lost 12-0 to Santa Clara on Oct. 30, 1936, in San Francisco, 24-17 to Southern Cal on Sept. 2, 2002, in Los Angeles, and 34-31 to Florida State on Jan. 6, 2014, in Pasadena in the BCS national-championship game.
90 Games since California had scored as many points as it did in its 58-21 victory over North Texas in the Golden Bears’ season-opener last week. The point output was the most for Cal since it kicked off the 2015 campaign with a 73-14 victory over Grambling State.
130 Games have been played by Auburn since it was most recently shut out, the second-longest streak in school history. Auburn’s most recent shutout loss came 49-0 to Alabama on Nov. 17, 2012. Auburn’s record scoring streak lasted 149 games, starting with a 55-16 victory over Richmond on Oct. 4, 1980, and ending with a 17-0 loss to Alabama on Nov. 26, 1992. Auburn’s current scoring streak is the 10th-longest in SEC history, and its record streak is the ninth-longest.
188 Yards and two TDs on 20 rushing attempts for California RB Jaydn Ott in last week’s 58-21 victory over North Texas.
357 Rushing yards and 312 passing yards for California in its 58-21 victory over North Texas last week. The Golden Bears were among the three teams that started the 2023 season with at least 300-rushing and 300-passing games. Oregon and UCF also posted at least 300 yards in both stats. The Ducks defeated Portland State 81-7, and the Golden Knights defeated Kent State 56-6.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.