Auburn vs Baylor
Game played Sep 5, 2026 · Published August 30, 2026 at 7:43 PM · 9 pages
Projected score, total and win probability for Auburn vs Baylor, priced against the betting line — with injuries, form and the key statistical mismatches.
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A F P L N A C O L L E G E F O O T B A L L M A T C H U P R E P O R T V S Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears 2026 Season G E N E R A T E D A U G U S T 3 0 , 2 0 2 6 0 7 : 3 6 P M I N T H I S R E P O R T 01 Matchup Overview 02 Visual Analytics 03 SP Ratings 04 ELO Ratings 05 FPI Ratings 06 SRS Ratings 07 Advanced Team Stats 08 Returning Production 09 Team Talent 10 Team PPA 11 Player PPA 12 Team Season Stats 13 Adjusted Team Metrics 14 Auburn Tigers Injury Updates 15 Baylor Bears Injury Updates 16 Key Player Matchups 17 Auburn Tigers Roster Updates 18 Baylor Bears Roster Updates 19 Auburn Tigers Practice and Scrimmage Updates 20 Baylor Bears Practice and Scrimmage Updates 21 Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears Media Matchup Analysis 22 Game Conditions and Betting Context 23 Final Prediction
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01 MATCHUP OVERVIEW Week 1 in a dome in Atlanta, a 2–2–1 series that has been dormant for half a century, and two staffs that have rebuilt the roster from the portal out. The Tigers and Bears last met in 2025 at McLane Stadium, where Auburn walked out 38–24. Before that the series was a museum piece: Auburn 33–13 in the 1954 postseason, Baylor 14–8 in 1965, a 10–10 tie in 1975, and Baylor 15–14 in 1976. The all-time ledger sits Auburn 2, Baylor 2, with one tie. ABC and Disney+ have the broadcast from Mercedes-Benz Stadium, a 75,000-seat indoor venue on artificial turf, with Auburn designated the home side of a game the schedule file also flags as neutral. This is the first Saturday that matters for Alex Golesh on the Plains and another referendum on Dave Aranda in Waco. Auburn comes in as the SEC side with the bigger recruiting base and the sharper defensive SP+ number; Baylor comes in as the Big 12 side that actually returned a football team. The 2025 result in Waco is the only recent data point, and it was decisive, but almost nobody who produced that afternoon is in the same building. Auburn gutted its own receiver room and imported a quarterback. Baylor imported a quarterback of its own and watched its leading returning back walk into the other locker room. Week 1 is supposed to be a handshake. This one is a stress test of which reconstruction actually took. 02 VISUAL ANALYTICS Generated directly from the CollegeFootballData feeds for this matchup. The same visuals appear on every report, so numbers can be compared like-for-like from one game to the next. GAME CONDITIONS · The forecast and the ground it will be played on: temperature, wind and precipitation beside the stadium's surface, roof, capacity and elevation. POWER RATING DASHBOARD · SP+, FPI and Elo side by side. SP+ and FPI are points-above-average ratings; the SP+ defensive rating counts down, so a lower bar is the better defense. Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 2 of 9
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EFFICIENCY PROFILE · Every advanced metric converted to a national percentile against all FBS teams, so the outer ring is always the better number regardless of which way the raw stat runs. MISMATCH MATRIX · Each offense measured directly against the defense it will face. Bars show the percentile gap; the longer the bar, the wider that specific unit-vs-unit edge. SEASON FORM TREND · Week-by-week predicted points added. This is where you see a team trending up or falling apart, which season averages hide. TOP INDIVIDUAL IMPACT · The players who have actually moved the needle, ranked by total PPA. Cross-reference this against the injury and roster sections. Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 3 of 9
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ROSTER CONTINUITY & TALENT · How much production each team returned from last season, alongside the recruiting talent composite. PROJECTED MARGIN BY SYSTEM · What each rating system independently projects, plus the market line and the blended consensus used as the model's anchor. Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 4 of 9
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WIN PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION · The consensus margin spread across the historical error distribution for college football projections. The shaded area on each side is that team's win probability. 03 SP RATINGS SP+ is a points-above-average rating of overall team quality; the defensive number runs the opposite direction, so a lower defensive rating is the better defense. TEAM OVERALL OFFENSE DEFENSE SPECIAL TEAMS Auburn 11.5 28.5 17.3 0.3 Baylor 3.8 31.9 28.8 0.6 FBS average -0.5 25.7 26.2 0.0 The Power Rating Dashboard makes the split obvious: Auburn is the better team, Baylor is the better offense, and the defensive gap is the entire game. Auburn’s 17.3 defensive rating sits nearly nine points better than the national average; Baylor’s 28.8 sits on the wrong side of it. That is not a stylistic quibble. It is the difference between a front that can finish drives in the backfield and a front that is asking the secondary to cover for an extra half-second on every dropback. 1 Baylor’s 31.9 offensive rating is the number that keeps this from being a track meet the Tigers control. It is 3.4 points better than Auburn’s offense and more than six above the FBS mean, which means the Bears should move the ball on standard downs even if they cannot stop anyone. Special teams are a rounding error for both, with Baylor a hair greener at 0.6 to 0.3. Net it out and SP+ has Auburn by 7.7 points before any home-field or injury adjustment — a margin that lives almost entirely on the defensive side of the ball. If Auburn’s front does not travel to Atlanta looking like a 17.3 unit, the rest of this card starts to wobble. 1 04 ELO RATINGS No data was available for that section. 05 FPI RATINGS FPI measures expected points above average against a typical FBS opponent, independent of SP+. TEAM FPI FPI RANK REMAINING SOS RANK Auburn 12.007 22 14 Baylor 6.518 37 40 FPI agrees with SP+ on the hierarchy and disagrees on the distance. Auburn at 12.0 and Baylor at 6.5 is a 5.5-point raw gap, which becomes 7.89 once the model’s 2.4-point home-field bump is applied — a full two points tighter than SP+’s 10.1 projected margin. ESPN also sees Auburn’s remaining path as brutally harder (SOS rank 14 versus 40), which is a 2026 problem and not a Week 1 problem, but it does explain why the Tigers are priced as a top-25 FPI side while opening against a Baylor team that FPI has closer to the middle of the Power Five pack. 1 The practical read for Saturday is that two different systems, built on different guts, both have Auburn in front and both have the game inside a one-score result once you stop pretending Mercedes-Benz Stadium is Jordan-Hare. FPI’s more modest gap is the one that should keep anyone from talking this through as a statement win before the ball is kicked. If you believe FPI, Baylor’s offense is good enough to keep DJ Lagway in the shot window into the fourth quarter. If you believe SP+, Auburn’s defense takes that window and nails it shut. The betting number, sitting at Auburn -7, is essentially splitting the difference. 1 06 SRS RATINGS No data was available for that section. 07 ADVANCED TEAM STATS No data was available for that section. Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 5 of 9
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08 RETURNING PRODUCTION Returning production is last season’s predicted points added that is actually back on the roster — the simplest measure of whether a team is a continuation or a reboot. TEAM TOTAL PPA BACK SHARE OF PPA PASSING PPA SHARE RECEIVING PPA SHARE RUSHING PPA SHARE USAGE BACK Auburn 35.8 14.4% 0.0% 8.8% 26.3% 19.6% Baylor 212.6 60.2% 77.7% 46.9% 67.7% 65.1% The Roster Continuity & Talent chart is not being subtle. Auburn brought back 14.4 percent of last year’s production and zero percent of its passing PPA. That is a program that decided the 2025 tape was not a foundation, it was a cautionary tale. Baylor brought back 60.2 percent, including 77.7 percent of its passing PPA and two-thirds of its rushing PPA. One of these teams is installing a new language in September. The other is speaking a dialect it already knows. 1 That continuity gap is the best argument Baylor has against the talent and SP+ deficits. Week 1 punishes the team that is still introducing itself. Auburn’s returning rushing share (26.3 percent) is not nothing, and the portal delivered a quarterback in Byrum Brown specifically to replace that 0.0 percent passing number, but chemistry does not get FedExed with the letter of intent. Baylor’s 65.1 percent usage returned means the Bears should be cleaner on early downs and less likely to gift Auburn a short field while Golesh is still teaching his group what third-and-6 looks like in his system. If this game is decided by execution rather than talent, the returning-production table is the one that matters. 1 09 TEAM TALENT The 247Sports composite talent score is the recruiting pedigree sitting under the roster — not what they did last year, what they were supposed to be able to do. Auburn’s 2026 talent number is 828.19. Baylor’s is 723.28. That is a 105-point chasm, the kind that usually shows up as a depth gap in the fourth quarter rather than a highlight in the first. 1 Talent is not a scheme and it does not block. What it does is give Auburn a higher floor when the portal pieces have not yet gelled and a higher ceiling when they do. Baylor is asking a 723 roster that returned a lot of production to out-execute an 828 roster that returned almost none. That bet comes in from time to time in Week 1, especially on a neutral field, but it is a fading bet as the game lengthens and the second units get on the grass. The Roster Continuity & Talent chart puts the tradeoff in one frame: Baylor has the continuity, Auburn has the horses. Saturday is the first time we find out which one Golesh can actually ride. 10 TEAM PPA No data was available for that section. 11 PLAYER PPA No data was available for that section. 12 TEAM SEASON STATS No data was available for that section. 13 ADJUSTED TEAM METRICS No data was available for that section. 14 AUBURN TIGERS INJURY UPDATES Medical availability for Auburn, split by source, with no blending of the two feeds. Live web research: Edge rusher J.J. Faulk had collarbone surgery on August 19 and is expected to miss the regular season, with a possible return only in late November or December; he had a sack in the first scrimmage and was ticketed for a real rotation role. 3 Offensive tackle Stanton Ramil, the Michigan State transfer, has been fully cleared and played all of Friday’s scrimmage after earlier snap-count limits. 4 Wide receiver Christian Neptune has lived in a non-contact jersey all camp after a shoulder procedure and remains questionable for the opener. 4 Running back Nykahi Davenport was held out of Friday’s scrimmage, returned Sunday, and is listed available. 4 Tight end Jonathan Echols was “dinged up” and sat Friday but is expected to be fine. 4 Safety Kaleb Harris was a full participant Friday after earlier limits. 4 Safety Sylvester Smith-Reed sat Friday and is probable, with Golesh saying he should be available by the next scrimmage. 4 Cornerback An’Quon Fegans sat the physical period but did everything else and is expected to be ready. 4 Defensive lineman Chris Murray is back to full speed after a “touch-up deal” and is “doing just fine.” 4 Injury feed: The stored feed, as of August 30, lists Faulk out for the regular season, Ramil available, Davenport available, Harris available, Murray available, Echols probable, Smith-Reed probable, Fegans probable, and Neptune questionable. 2 The only absence that actually changes the call sheet is Faulk. Losing a developing edge for the season thins a rush that already has to live with Baylor’s 31.9 offensive SP+ rating, and it puts more of the Lagway problem on Da’Shawn Womack and the interior. Everyone else Golesh has been managing — Ramil, Harris, Fegans, Murray, Davenport, Echols, Smith-Reed — is either cleared or close enough that Auburn should dress a near-full two-deep in Atlanta. Neptune in a non-contact jersey is the second- order issue: if he cannot go, a receiver room that already returned 8.8 percent of last year’s receiving PPA gets thinner still. 3 4 2 Net medical picture for the Tigers is “injured enough to notice, not injured enough to rewrite the spread.” The offensive line gets its tackle back. The secondary gets its pieces back. The backfield is intact. The edge is not. That is a Week 1 problem against a Baylor offense that wants to throw, and it is the one injury I am willing to spend a point of margin on. 15 BAYLOR BEARS INJURY UPDATES No data was available for that section. 16 KEY PLAYER MATCHUPS The individual battles that will actually decide whether Auburn’s defensive rating shows up, built from current roster facts rather than last year’s nameplates. Byrum Brown against Joe Klanderman’s first call sheet as Baylor’s defensive play-caller is the chess match Golesh already flagged. Aranda has handed the defense to Klanderman, late of Kansas State, and is watching from the program level; Golesh called it an “interesting chess match,” which is coach-speak for we do not have a reliable tape on this thing. 29 Brown, the South Florida transfer, has been living in the film room on Sundays through Tuesdays, and Auburn has already used scout-team looks to Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 6 of 9
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mimic Baylor’s featured pieces — a scout quarterback as DJ Lagway, a defensive tackle as Hosea Wheeler, a receiver as Dre’lon Miller. 47 53 If Brown can marry that prep to Golesh’s tempo, Baylor’s 28.8 defensive SP+ rating is going to look exactly as leaky as the number says. Bryson Washington against his old building is the blood matchup. He left Baylor for Auburn in January as a four-star back, and the Tigers have been explicit that he is motivated to see the people who used to game-plan him. 30 The published “key matchups” pieces still talk as if Washington is wearing green and gold and as if Cam Coleman and Eric Singleton are still running past Baylor corners; both of those receivers are gone, and Washington now has to punish the front he used to practice against. 28 On the other side of the ball, Dre’lon Miller — the Colorado transfer Auburn is specifically scouting — against An’Quon Fegans is the WR/CB pairing the Tigers have chosen to simulate, with Fegans probable after a managed camp. 53 4 Interior, Hosea Wheeler, the four-star Indiana transfer, against an Auburn line that just got Stanton Ramil back and has Reid Strand taking first-team left guard, is the trench fight that decides whether Brown has a clean pocket or Lagway does. 53 4 52 The absence that tilts one of those trenches is J.J. Faulk. Baylor’s tackles were supposed to spend the afternoon with a rusher who had already shown a scrimmage sack; instead they get a thinner, greener edge rotation, which is a gift to Lagway’s 31.9-rated offense. 9 3 Auburn still has Womack, the four-star Ole Miss edge, but depth is not the same thing as a named starter with a sack on the fall tape. If Wheeler wins his gap and Faulk’s replacement does not win his, the SP+ defensive gap that underwrites Auburn’s side of this card starts leaking in real time. 17 AUBURN TIGERS ROSTER UPDATES Non-injury roster movement, portal first, then anything the beat has added. Verified transfer portal: Auburn’s incoming class is a rebuild disguised as a shopping spree. Four-star additions: quarterback Byrum Brown from South Florida, edge Da’Shawn Womack from Ole Miss, running back Bryson Washington from Baylor, and defensive lineman Walter Mathis Jr. from LSU. The three-star wave behind them includes tackles Stanton Ramil (Michigan State), Joseph Simmons (James Madison), Jacob Strand (Oregon State) and Deryc Plazz (Miami); interior linemen Cole Best, Cole Skinner and Kenneth McManus IV; receivers Jeremiah Koger, Scrap Richardson, Keshaun Singleton, Chas Nimrod and Christian Neptune, all but Richardson from the South Florida pipeline that followed Brown; tight ends Jonathan Echols, Jake Johnson, Arlis Boardingham and Hunter Herring; running backs Nykahi Davenport and Tae Meadows; and defensive backs Andre Jordan Jr., Shamar Arnoux, Gavin Jenkins and Kamari Todd. 1 The outgoing list is how you end up returning 14.4 percent of your production. Five-star receiver Cam Coleman left for Texas. Four-star exits include receivers Eric Singleton Jr. (Florida), Malcolm Simmons (Texas Tech), Horatio Fields (Ole Miss) and Perry Thompson (Minnesota); edge Amaris Williams (Georgia); quarterback Deuce Knight (Ole Miss); corner Jay Crawford (Ole Miss); and tackle Xavier Chaplin (Florida State). A long tail of three-star corners, safeties, edges and skill players followed them out. 1 Researched news: No additional non-injury roster news was available for this section. That portal ledger is the returning-production table in human form. Auburn did not dabble. It stripped the receiver room that produced last year’s passing PPA, let the quarterback room walk, and rebuilt the operation around Brown and the South Florida cluster that came with him, then added a Baylor running back for spite and two SEC- flavored defensive fronts in Womack and Mathis. The talent composite of 828.19 says the replacements are real prospects. Week 1 says they have not played a snap together in this grouping. The only roster fact that cuts against Baylor in a personal way is Washington wearing blue against the program he just left; everything else is a first-start problem Golesh has to solve in real time. 1 30 18 BAYLOR BEARS ROSTER UPDATES Non-injury roster movement, portal first. Verified transfer portal: Baylor’s headline arrival is four-star quarterback DJ Lagway from Florida, with four-star defensive lineman Hosea Wheeler from Indiana as the other premium piece. The three-star haul is heavy on the lines and the secondary: edge Garrick Ponder (Southern Miss) and Ryan Davis (Kansas State); interior linemen Nate Kibble (Texas), Cooper Lovelace (Colorado), Yakiri Walker (Memphis), Asher Hale and Lawson Petty; tackles Cole Rhett and Logan Moore; defensive linemen Jordan Mack, Jamaal Whyce Jr., Kamren Washington, Zavion Hardy and Daemian Wimberly; receivers Dre’lon Miller (Colorado), Hardley Gilmore IV (Kentucky), Gavin Freeman (Oklahoma State), Jayden McGowan and DeBraun Hampton; tight end Tony Livingston (Florida); and a wave of defensive backs from Oklahoma, Kansas State, LSU and Delaware. 1 The outbound traffic is why a 60 percent returning-production number still feels like a renovation. Four-star interior lineman Coleton Price left for Kentucky, four-star running back Bryson Washington left for Auburn, and four-star edge Kamauryn Morgan left for Missouri. Linebackers Keaton Thomas (Ole Miss), Phoenix Jackson (Arkansas), Jeremy Evans (Arkansas) and Kedrick Walker’s counterparts on the way out gutted the second level. Safeties, corners, edges and a kicker (Connor Hawkins to Ohio State) followed. Walker White, the quarterback, landed at Central Arkansas. 1 Researched news: No additional non-injury roster news was available for this section. Baylor did not blow it up the way Auburn did, but it did not stand still either. Lagway is the attempt to turn that 77.7 percent returning passing PPA into something more explosive; Wheeler is the attempt to keep the defensive interior from being the reason Aranda hands the headset to Klanderman. The cut that actually shows up in this specific game is Washington: the Bears lost their four-star back to the opponent they open against, which is a special kind of self-own even in a portal era that has made special kinds of self-owns mundane. Baylor still returned more of itself than Auburn did. It just returned itself minus the back who now has a scouting report with a forwarding address. 1 19 AUBURN TIGERS PRACTICE AND SCRIMMAGE UPDATES What camp and the first mock game week actually looked like on the grass. Golesh ended fall camp, declared the Tigers “relatively healthy,” and shifted the entire operation onto a mock game week: full install, game-week hours, a mock game to finish, and scout-team jerseys with blank nameplates mimicking Lagway, Wheeler and Miller. 48 49 53 Byrum Brown is the starter, and Golesh’s description of him — two doors down, watching film Sunday through Tuesday, “as particular as anybody I’ve ever been around” — is the closest thing Auburn has to a Week 1 security blanket. 47 Tristan Ti’a has locked down the No. 2 snaps ahead of Locklen Hewlett and Rhys Brush. 51 On the line, Reid Strand seized first-team left guard after getting healthy, with Cole Skinner holding the edge at right guard over Deryc Plazz. 52 Kaleb Harris and An’Quon Fegans are back at practice; Smith-Reed has been in a non-contact jersey as the staff manages an offseason shoulder. 50 52 Nykahi Davenport missed days with a soft-tissue issue and was expected back late in camp; Jeremiah Cobb was limited on purpose, which opened first-team work for Omar Mabson II and Bryson Washington. 50 The tape from inside those scrimmages is not all champagne. Golesh liked the physicality of a ~100-play second scrimmage and said tackling improved, then immediately complained that the Tigers are “not very good right now, really on both sides, at truly recognizing situational football,” naming Dallas Walker, Da’Shawn Womack, Jared Smith and Eric Winters as the defensive examples. 50 That is the sentence that should follow you into a one-score opener. Auburn has the quarterback who lives in the film room, a settled interior, a healthy-enough two-deep, and a scout team already wearing Baylor’s shapes. It also has a head coach who does not trust his team to know what down it is. Faulk’s season-ending surgery hangs over the edge rotation while all of that is happening. 50 Mock game week will either clean up the situational mess or confirm that Week 1 against a 60-percent-returned Baylor roster is a steep way to learn it. 20 BAYLOR BEARS PRACTICE AND SCRIMMAGE UPDATES No data was available for that section. 21 AUBURN TIGERS VS BAYLOR BEARS MEDIA MATCHUP ANALYSIS No data was available for that section. Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 7 of 9
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22 GAME CONDITIONS AND BETTING CONTEXT The forecast, the building, and the number — and what each of those does to the way this game can be played. The Game Conditions card is a funhouse: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, a dome, artificial turf, capacity 75,000, elevation 308 meters, with an outdoor reading of 92.7 degrees, 41 percent humidity, wind out of 318 at 6.9 mph, and a listed condition of Heavy Rain Shower. The indoors flag is true and the roof is a dome, which means the shower, the wind and the heat are decorations. Nobody is throwing in the rain. Nobody is kicking into a 7-mph breeze. The surface is turf, so cuts hold and the pace Golesh wants does not get bogged down. Elevation at 308 meters is not Denver; it is a rounding error. A 75,000-seat indoor stadium in Atlanta will not play like Jordan-Hare, but it also will not play like a true road crowd for Baylor. The baseline still baked in 2.4 points of home-field advantage with Auburn as the designated home side. Neither team has an against-the-spread record because neither team has played. The market has Auburn -7 with a total of 58.75, out of Bovada and DraftKings, and a pregame home win probability of 68.5 percent. The statistical baseline, a 50/50 blend of the ratings consensus (Auburn by 8.99) and that market number, sits at Auburn by 8.0 with a projected total of 56.9 and a 72.3 percent home win probability — a touch more aggressive on the moneyline than the books, a touch lower on the total. Because the dome kills the weather, there is no rain-driven reason to drag the total further down and no wind-driven reason to fade the passing games. The total is a pure talent-and- scheme number, and the scheme number on Baylor’s offense (31.9 SP+) is the one arguing the over while Auburn’s defense (17.3) argues the other way. 23 FINAL PREDICTION Auburn wins this game. After folding in the medical and camp noise the ratings cannot see, the number is Auburn 31, Baylor 24 — a seven-point margin, one point off the statistical baseline consensus of Auburn by 8.0 (the 50/50 blend of an 8.99 ratings consensus and the market’s 7.0). The trim is J.J. Faulk’s regular-season-ending collarbone surgery thinning the edge against a 31.9-rated Baylor offense, plus Golesh’s own camp verdict that his team still cannot recognize situational football. 3 50 That is not enough to give Baylor the game. It is enough to stop pretending this is a 10-point SP+ walkover in a building that is not Jordan-Hare. The market is Auburn -7 at 58.75. Projecting Auburn by exactly seven against -7 is a dead number, and Week 1 with a new staff, a missing edge, and 14.4 percent returning production is not where you lay a pick’em. Take Baylor +7. Take the under 58.75, because a 17.3 defensive rating in a weather-free dome should keep this closer to the baseline’s 56.9 than to the books’ 58.75. The case is three things. First, the defensive mismatch is real and it is the whole card: Auburn 17.3, Baylor 28.8, with FPI (12.0 vs 6.5) and SP+ (11.5 vs 3.8) both pointing the same direction on the Power Rating Dashboard and the Projected Margin by System. Second, the 828-to-723 talent gap and a designated home side in Atlanta should show up as depth once the first-quarter script-vs-script phase ends, especially with Ramil cleared and the secondary coming back. 4 Third, Baylor’s 60.2 percent returning production and 31.9 offensive rating, against an Auburn team that returned none of its passing PPA and just lost Faulk, are why this stays a one-score game rather than a coronation — and why the Win Probability Distribution still has a live tail for the Bears even as the mass of it sits on Auburn’s side of zero. THE VERDICT · The projected final score, win probability, the model's spread set against the market and the pick that comparison implies — the report's bottom line in one card. SOURCES 1. College Football Data API (CollegeFootballData) https://collegefootballdata.com 2. College football injury feed (Injury feed) https://www.rotowire.com/cfootball/news.php 3. Auburn edge rusher J.J. Faulk out for regular season after collarbone surgery (Auburn Wire) https://auburnwire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/auburn/football/2026/08/19/auburn- football-edge-j-j-faulk-out-for-the-regular-season-with-injury/91376074007/ 4. Stanton Ramil healthy, plays full scrimmage in final week of camp (Auburn Undercover) https://auburnundercover.com/s/292/auburn-football-injury-update-tigers-getting-healthier- in-final-week-of-camp 5. Auburn Linebacker Likely Out For Season Following Collarbone Surgery https://www.si.com/college/auburn/football/auburn-linebacker-likely-out-for-season-following- collarbone-surgery 6. Auburn football injury report before fall camp begins https://auburnwire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/auburn/football/2026/08/05/auburn- football-injury-report-before-fall-camp-begins-sec/91177411007/ 7. Golesh provides Auburn injury updates with fall camp looming 36. Auburn football depth chart projections: Offense - al.com https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2026/08/auburn-football-depth-chart-projections-offense.html 37. Auburn’s Newest WR Faces Major Eligibility Twist https://www.sportvectru.com/auburns-newest-wr-faces-major-eligibility-twist/ 38. Even in the portal era, it’s rare to find a QB quite like Byrum Brown https://www.auburnobserver.com/p/byrum-brown-auburn-football-transfer-stats-experience-leadership-2026 39. Auburn’s Biggest Question Just Got More Complicated https://www.sportvectru.com/auburns-biggest-question-just-got-more-complicated/ 40. Auburn Quarterback NIL Deal Revealed To Be Near Top Of The Country https://www.si.com/college/auburn/football/auburn-quarterback-nil-deal-revealed-near-top-country 41. Auburn QB Byrum Brown Shines in First Scrimmage | Tristan Ti'a Steps Up as Backup (2026) https://newmusicnorth.org/article/auburn-qb-byrum-brown-shines-in-first-scrimmage-tristan-ti-a-steps-up-as-backup 42. On the Plains with Sylvester Smith-Reed: New name, same game - Auburn Tigers - Official Athletics Website https://auburntigers.com/news/2026/08/27/on-the-plains-with-sylvester-smith-reed-new-name-same-game 43. Baylor's Three-Man QB2 Battle Remains Open Behind DJ Lagway https://www.si.com/college/baylor/football/baylor-three-man-qb2-battle-remains-open-behind-dj-lagway Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears · 2026 · Matchup Report Page 8 of 9
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https://247sports.com/college/auburn/article/auburn-tigers-football-fall-camp-injury-sec- media-days-288423020/ 8. Auburn Suffers Major Injury Blow as Projected Starter Ruled Out https://www.sportvectru.com/auburn-suffers-major-injury-blow-as-projected-starter-ruled-out/ 9. Auburn Rocked Before Baylor Opener as Golesh Faces First... (SportVectru) https://www.sportvectru.com/auburn-rocked-before-baylor-opener-as-golesh-faces-first/ 10. Auburn Injury Report: Alex Golesh Gives Quadruple Update on Key Players - EssentiallySports https://www.essentiallysports.com/ncaa-college-football-news-auburn-injury-report-alex- golesh-gives-quadruple-update-on-key-players-newboy-fegans-chris-murray-shemar-arnoux- tai-buster/ 11. A look at Auburn football's injury report after first fall scrimmage - Yahoo Sports https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/look-auburn-footballs-injury-report-160311714.html 12. Why Auburn’s Newest Wide Receiver May Not Play for Tigers in 2026 https://www.si.com/college/auburn/football/why-auburn-newest-wide-receiver-may-not-play- for-tigers-in-2026-tray-taylor 13. Clemson safety Polo Anderson tears ACL, out for season (Sports Illustrated) https://www.si.com/college/clemson/football/dabo-swinney-gives-multiple-injury-updates- following-first-fall-camp-scrimmage- 14. Clemson RB Jay Haynes still working back from injury (The Clemson Insider) https://www.theclemsoninsider.com/2026/08/21/injury-updates-on-veteran-rb-sophomore-wr/ 15. Clemson WR T.J. Moore close to full return (Clemson Wire) https://clemsonwire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/clemson/football/2026/08/21/clemson- football-dabo-swinney-tj-moore-injury-update/91403223007/ 16. Clemson DT Hevin Brown-Shuler out for 2026 season (The Post and Courier) https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/clemson/clemson-tigers-football-2026-season- preview-083026/article_e65a13f1-8ea3-49e9-991b-1a4f8173b1cf.html 17. Pendergrass returns from foot surgery to command running game - The Baylor Lariat https://baylorlariat.com/2026/08/26/pendergrass-returns-from-foot-surgery-to-command- running-game/ 18. Klopfenstein, Polley step up in tight end room amid offseason changes - The Baylor Lariat https://baylorlariat.com/2026/08/25/klopfenstein-polley-step-up-in-tight-end-room-amid- offseason-changes/ 19. Baylor's O-Line Depth Chart Shakes Up After Center Yakiri Walker Denied Temporary Injunction https://www.si.com/college/baylor/football/baylor-offenisve-line-depth-chart-yakiri-walker- denied-temporary-injunction 20. Baylor's Walker denied injunction, Wheeler granted TRO https://wacotrib.com/sports/college/baylor/article_416d3aa8-0bae-49cc-9900- 26adea4fece1.html 21. Judge denies injunction for Baylor football transfer seeking additional year of eligibility https://www.kwtx.com/2026/07/29/judge-denies-injunction-baylor-football-transfer-seeking- additional-year-eligibility/ 22. 2026 BAYLOR ROSTER POSITIONAL BREAKDOWN https://baylorbears.com/documents/download/2026/8/5/Positional_Breakdown.pdf 23. What Do Yakiri Walker's and Hosea Wheeler's Decisions Mean For Baylor? | SicEm365 https://sicem365.com/s/21549/what-do-yakiri-walkers-and-hosea-wheelers-decisions-mean- for-baylor 24. Dave Aranda Is Dealing With A Baylor Problem Up Front | Fanrecap.com https://fanrecap.com/baylor-bears/dave-aranda-is-dealing-with-a-baylor-problem-up-front-- c8yNi 25. 2026 Baylor Bears Football Depth Chart | Ourlads.com https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/depth-chart/baylor/90107/ 26. Baylor RB Dawson Pendergrass lost for season (Auburn Wire) https://auburnwire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/auburn/football/2025/08/29/auburn- football-preview-behind-enemy-lines/85870241007/ 27. CBS analyst picks Auburn over Baylor in Week 1 (Sports Illustrated) https://www.si.com/college/auburn/football/why-this-analyst-believes-auburn-will-beat-baylor- in-week-1 28. Key matchups: Baylor vs Auburn (Sports Illustrated (Baylor)) https://www.si.com/college/baylor/football/key-matchups-baylor-vs-auburn-in-a-massive- week-1-showdown 29. Baylor defensive coordinator shift adds unknowns for Auburn (SECFB) https://secfb.com/auburn-vs-baylor-week-1-prep/ 30. Auburn RB Bryson Washington motivated against former team (Auburn Wire) https://auburnwire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/auburn/football/2026/07/19/auburn- football-opponent-preview-baylor-bears-season-opener-sec/90967091007/ 31. Auburn vs. Baylor: 5 transfers Tigers need to know | Auburn Undercover https://auburnundercover.com/s/379/auburn-vs-baylor-5-transfers-tigers-need-to-know 32. Auburn vs Baylor Preview: SEC No. 1 Hosts Big 12 Leader – Beatline Sports https://www.beatlinesports.com/2026/08/23/beatline-cfb-bay-at-aub-2026-09-05/ 33. Preseason Preview: Week 1 vs. Baylor - The Auburn Plainsman https://www.theplainsman.com/article/2026/07/preseason-preview-week-1-vs-baylor 34. Baylor vs Auburn NCAAF Week 1 Preview and Prediction September 5, 2026 – Capper Reviews https://capperreviews.com/baylor-vs-auburn-ncaaf-week-1-preview-and-prediction- september-5-2026/ 35. Auburn HC Alex Golesh Teases Special Role for New Transfer Receiver https://www.si.com/college/auburn/football/auburn-hc-alex-golesh-teases-special-role-for- new-transfer-receiver-tray-taylor 44. Baylor football releases 2025 depth chart, changes defensive terminology ahead of season opener against Auburn - The Baylor Lariat https://baylorlariat.com/2025/08/25/baylor-football-releases-2025-depth-chart-changes-defensive-terminology-ahead-of-season-opener- against-auburn/ 45. Baylor Bears QB Battle Heats Up: Lagway vs Bennett vs Griffin Ahead of Auburn | Beatline Bears https://podscan.fm/podcasts/beatline-baylor-football-daily-podcast-on-the-baylor-bears/episodes/baylor-bears-qb-battle-heats-up- lagway-vs-bennett-vs-griffin-ahead-of-auburn-beatline-bears 46. FB's DJ Lagway Named to Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List - Baylor https://baylorbears.com/news/2026/8/26/football-fbs-dj-lagway-named-to-earl-campbell-tyler-rose-award-watch-list 47. Golesh details QB Byrum Brown's game-week preparation ritual (al.com) https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2026/08/alex-golesh-details-quarterback-byrum-byrum-browns-elite-preparation-during-a-game- week.html 48. Auburn opens Baylor prep with mock game week approach (al.com) https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2026/08/auburn-football-begins-baylor-prep-with-mock-game-week-approach.html 49. Auburn finishes fall camp healthy, enters mock game week injury-light (1819 News) https://1819news.com/news/item/auburn-turns-page-from-fall-camp-as-golesh-puts-focus-on-game-week-preparation 50. Golesh: Kaleb Harris and AnQuon Fegans return to practice (1819 News) https://1819news.com/news/item/auburn-shows-progress-in-second-scrimmage-but-golesh-still-wants-more-situational-awareness 51. Tristan Ti'a holds No. 2 QB reps behind Byrum Brown (al.com) https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2026/08/auburn-qb-byrum-brown-impresses-in-first-preseason-scrimmage-tristan-tia-primary- backup.html 52. Strand surges into lead at left guard during camp Week 2 (al.com) https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2026/08/5-takeaways-from-auburns-second-week-of-preseason-camp.html 53. Auburn uses scout team to mirror Baylor's top players in mock game week (Auburn Observer) https://www.auburnobserver.com/p/auburn-football-practice-observations-mock-game-week-baylor-intel-notes 54. Insider Notebook: What we’re hearing from Friday’s closed scrimmage | Auburn Undercover https://auburnundercover.com/s/275/insider-notebook-what-were-hearing-from-fridays-closed-scrimmage 55. Auburn football’s tackling problems persist in preseason scrimmage: ‘Need so much more work’ - al.com https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/2026/08/auburn-footballs-tackling-problems-persist-in-preseason-scrimmage-need-so-much-more- work.html 56. Tigers hold first scrimmage, put finishing touches on fall camp | Sports | auburnvillager.com https://www.auburnvillager.com/sports/tigers-hold-first-scrimmage-put-finishing-touches-on-fall-camp/article_0c426ecf-e1c9-4a93-9073- ab96c703f0cb.html 57. ‘I Feel Like I’ve Got Juice’: Aranda, Baylor Football Trying to Carry New Energy Into 2026 | SicEm365 https://sicem365.com/s/21676/i-feel-like-ive-got-juice-aranda-baylor-football-trying-to-carry-new-energy-into-2026 58. Baylor Opens Fall Camp With Renewed Focus, Player-Led Culture and High Expectations https://247sports.com/college/baylor/article/baylor-opens-fall-camp-with-renewed-focus-player-led-culture-and-high-expectations- 288729896/ 59. 3 Winners and 2 Losers From Baylor Football Fall Camp Through 2 Weeks https://www.si.com/college/baylor/football/3-winners-and-2-losers-from-baylor-football-fall-camp-through-2-weeks 60. Baylors New Defense Faces One Urgent Question Before Auburn | Fanrecap.com https://fanrecap.com/baylor-bears/baylors-new-defense-faces-one-urgent-question-before-auburn--jAv5K 61. Backup QB battle at Baylor raging on during fall camp https://wacotrib.com/sports/college/baylor/article_3b7c6ebf-ea9f-4a24-a7d1-ceaf67949aaf.html 62. Baylor Fall Camp Battle Could Decide The Bears Early Ceiling | Fanrecap.com https://fanrecap.com/baylor-bears/baylor-fall-camp-battle-could-decide-the-bears-early-ceiling--TsBGK 63. Baylor Offense Faces Two Camp Questions Fans Can't Ignore | Fanrecap.com https://fanrecap.com/baylor-bears/baylor-offense-faces-two-camp-questions-fans-can-t-ignore--ZR1eQ 64. No Bell Cow Needed: Baylor Confident in Depth of Running Back Room | SicEm365 https://sicem365.com/s/21645/no-bell-cow-needed-baylor-confident-in-depth-of-running-back-room 65. Auburn vs Baylor Prediction, Odds, Picks, Start Time, Week 1 Game Preview https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/auburn-tigers-vs-baylor-bears-prediction-pick-odds-college-football-friday-august-29-qs 66. Auburn Tigers vs Baylor Bears Predictions, H2H Stats & TV Channels (Saturday, September 05, 2026) https://tvevents.org/American-Football.php/Auburn-Tigers---Baylor-Bears/3822708/ 67. Auburn Tigers vs. Baylor Bears Odds, Betting Lines, Expert picks, Game Projections, DFS Projections and Player Prop Projections - Saturday 08/30 00:00 AM - SportsLine.com https://www.sportsline.com/ncaaf/game-forecast/NCAAF_20250829_AUBURN@BAYLOR/? ttag=SL25_lk_cbssports_mediagametrackermatchupanalysis 68. Auburn vs. Baylor score prediction by expert football model | Yardbarker https://www.yardbarker.com/college_football/articles/auburn_vs_baylor_score_prediction_by_expert_football_model/s1_17022_42657615 69. 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