Now that the matches, the meetings, the tournaments and the championships have ended, we can look back the 2024-25 collegial athletics season.
This means assessing the overall performance of Alabama and Auburn and how they compared this year. We have already looked The head-to-head clashes between Alabama and AuburnAnd now we are going to zoom in for the global view.
There are several ways to do this but Learfield director of the Cup of Learfield are a respected measure of the success of the sports department.
And, for the first time since 2016, Auburn overshadowed Alabama in these final rankings.
The Tigers finished 19th compared to the 22nd for their rival.
Auburn mounted a strong spring to exceed the crimson tide with 867.5 points in total for 830.5 of the Alabama.
Barely a year ago, the Alabama was n ° 9 compared to the 33rd place of Auburn.
Nine years ago, Auburn (n ° 35) preceded Alabama (n ° 36) during the last head to head victory.
The 19th place for Tigers has been its best since an 18th place in 2018.
Texas dominated the ranking this season in its first season in the dry.
Spring was huge for Auburn because it ranked 82nd after fall and 39th after winter competition. After scoring only 77 points in the fall, Auburn collected 458.25 in the spring
The tide was still in the lead in the baseball playoffs when the national seed n ° 4 Auburn won a regional while the Alabama lost the two games at this level.
A fourth place in the male athletics meeting sealed victory.
These rankings cover all the championships sponsored by the NCAA with FBS football.
Auburn ended the year with 10 teams classified in the top 20 of their respective sports – five in the top 10. Alabama had 10 in the first 20 and two in the top 10.
Auburn’s effort was punctuated by a male basketball final, the male basketball final, the end of male athletics n ° 3, the male golf ending n ° 5 and women’s tennis finishing n ° 9.
A seventh place in gymnastics followed the Alabama Elite Elite male basketball race and a super regional appearance for softball.
Football has scored Alabama 57 points with a number 17 in the coach survey. Auburn Football did not contribute to the effort because it ended outside the ranking with a losing record.
Here is an overview of the full table of the national ranking for each team covered by the classification of the director’s cup.