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1948 Auburn Tigers football
1948 Auburn Tigers football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Record	1–8–1 (0–7 SEC)
Head coach	Earl Brown (1st season);
Home stadium	Auburn Stadium; Cramton Bowl; Ladd Memorial Stadium
	Seasons ← 1947 1949 →

1948 Southeastern Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 8 Georgia $	6	–	0	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
No. 15 Ole Miss	6	–	1	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
No. 13 Tulane	5	–	1	–	0	9	–	1	–	0
No. 12 Vanderbilt	4	–	2	–	1	8	–	2	–	1
Georgia Tech	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Alabama	4	–	4	–	1	6	–	4	–	1
Mississippi State	3	–	3	–	0	4	–	4	–	1
Tennessee	2	–	3	–	1	4	–	4	–	2
Kentucky	1	–	3	–	1	5	–	3	–	2
Florida	1	–	5	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
LSU	1	–	5	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Auburn	0	–	7	–	0	1	–	8	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1948 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1948 college football season. It was the Tigers' 57th overall and 16th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Earl Brown, in his first year, and played their home games at Auburn Stadium in Auburn, the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery and Ladd Memorial Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. They finished the season with a record of one win, eight losses and one tie (1–8–1 overall, 0–7 in the SEC). Auburn was ranked at No. 103 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System ratings for 1948.^[1]

After 41 years of dormancy, 1948 marked the return of the Iron Bowl rivalry with Alabama, the teams have played every year uninterrupted since 1948.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	Mississippi Southern*	Cramton Bowl Montgomery, AL	W 20–14	16,000	^[2]
October 2	Louisiana Tech*	Auburn Stadium Auburn, AL	T 13–13	12,000	^[3]
October 9	vs. Florida	Phillips Field Tampa, FL (rivalry)	L 9–16	18,000	^[4]
October 16	at No. 7 Georgia Tech	Grant Field Atlanta, GA (rivalry)	L 0–27	38,000	^[5]
October 23	at No. 17 Tulane	Tulane Stadium New Orleans, LA (rivalry)	L 6–21	35,000	^[6]
October 29	Vanderbilt	Cramton Bowl Montgomery, AL	L 0–47	18,000	^[7]
November 6	Mississippi State	Legion Field Birmingham, AL	L 0–20	15,000	^[8]
November 13	vs. No. 13 Georgia	Memorial Stadium Columbus, GA (rivalry)	L 14–42	20,000	^[9]
November 27	No. 9 Clemson*	Ladd Memorial Stadium Mobile, AL (rivalry)	L 6–7	14,110	^[10]
December 4	vs. Alabama	Legion Field Birmingham, AL (Iron Bowl)	L 0–55	46,000	^[11]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game