Ben Tate News

Spring evaluation is starting about four months early for the Auburn Tigers. With its Jan.

Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips got the news while driving home from the Bears game on Sunday.

Five Tigers Named To AP All-SEC Teams AUBURN, Ala. A- Five Auburn players were selected to the Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference Teams that were announced Monday, including senior defensive end Antonio Coleman, who was named to the first team.

In a college football season full of surprises, the Outback Bowl got into the act by pulling a mild upset of its own Sunday, selecting Auburn and Northwestern for the Jan.

Just when the surprise had, perhaps, worn off about Auburn's postseason bowl destination, the Outback Bowl went against popular perception again Sunday with its announcement of the Tigers' opponent.

Auburn coach Gene Chizik spoke openly of the future after Friday's dramatic Iron Bowl loss to Alabama, offering a confident outlook to players, fans and perhaps even recruits about what is to come.

Alabama running back Mark Ingram is stopped by Auburn linebacker Jonathan Evans in the first quarter Friday, Nov.

AUBURN -- Darvin Adams believes Auburn will play its best game of the season Friday.

3 Alabama will have bigger fish to fry, such as the SEC title game and possibly the BCS finale, it might be easy to overlook an opponent.

The weather is colder now, so Zac Etheridge has a big hooded sweatshirt to drape over the bulky, two-piece neck brace he's been forced to wear since Halloween.

When: 1:30 p.m. today Where: Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn Line: Alabama by 10 1/2 Records: Auburn ; Alabama On the air: TV -- CBS; Radio -- WLWI-FM 92.3, WMSP-AM 740, WXFX-FM 95.1 FOUR-DOWN TERRITORY 1. How is Auburn's defensive front going to handle the Tide's rushing attack? Mark Ingram is an excellent back.

If there's a 6-foot-5, 355-pound mammoth of a man walking the halls of the Auburn Athletic Complex these days, Ryan Pugh has yet to see him.

It's cold, it's loud and it's just about football time. In a pre-game ceremony, Auburn honored its 1989 team that defeated Alabama in the first Iron Bowl played at Auburn.

Curtis Luper likes talking about Ben Tate , and doesn't mind throwing in an "I told you so" along the way.

The Auburn Tigers are hoping to pull off a big Iron Bowl upset. No. 2 Alabama is seeking the first of what the Crimson Tide hopes will be three titles.

Auburn's Ben Tate has delivered a couple of messages in recent weeks. First, he told a reporter that he's the "best back in the state", though No.

AUBURN -- The only classroom Auburn players will see this weekend is at the Athletic Complex.

And the Tigers running back goes into Friday's Iron Bowl believing he is better than Alabama's Mark Ingram and others.

Who's the best running back in the state of Alabama? No. 2 Alabama's Mark Ingram and Auburn's Ben Tate might not be able to supply a definitive answer to that question in Friday's Iron Bowl.

Alabama middle linebacker Rolando McClain has seen the formations and the shifts and the motions that Auburn's offense presents.