The Tigers open the upcoming campaign with five straight home games. That’s a good opportunity to get some momentum before the calendar flips to October, but the three matchups directly after that — Georgia, Missouri and Kentucky — all come on the road.

Auburn won six games in 2023. That won’t cut it in coach Hugh Freeze’s second season, and he seems to know that. Some games, such as that matchup against Georgia in Athens, are expected losses in the sense that no reasonable fan is waiting for the Tigers to steal a road victory over the Bulldogs, despite Auburn pushing them to the brink in Jordan-Hare Stadium last season.

But other games are more of the coin flip variety. These contests will decide what kind of season the Tigers have.

Here are five of those games on Auburn’s 2024 schedule, listed in chronological order: