For the first time since 2005, Auburn will play every game in September at home.
The SEC schedule for the 14 teams in the conference was released Thursday, and the Tigers will not travel for a game until Oct. 8, when Auburn visits Mississippi State.
The Tigers open the season on Sept. 3, when they host Clemson in the first of a home-and-home series with the school.
After a non-conference game against Arkansas State, Auburn will host Texas A&M on Sept. 17, the first conference game of the year.
On Sept. 24, LSU will visit The Plains, followed by Louisiana-Monroe on Oct. 1.
After Auburn travels to Starkville on Oct. 8, the Tigers will have a bye week, following which they will alternate home and away games for the final six weeks of the season.
Arkansas visits The Plains on Oct. 22, after which Auburn will travel to Oxford to face Ole Miss on Oct. 29.
The rotating cross-division game for Auburn in 2016 will take place the next week, as Vanderbilt comes to Auburn for the first time since 2007. The Tigers will travel to Georgia on Nov. 12 before wrapping up their non-conference slate the following week at home against Alabama A&M.
To cap off the season, Auburn will travel to Tuscaloosa to face off against Alabama in the Iron Bowl on Nov. 26.
2016 AUBURN FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Sept. 3 CLEMSON
Sept. 10 ARKANSAS STATE
Sept. 17 TEXAS A&M
Sept. 24 LSU
Oct. 1 LOUISIANA-MONROE
Oct. 8 at Mississippi State
Oct. 15 Bye week
Oct. 22 ARKANSAS
Oct. 29 at Ole Miss
Nov. 5 VANDERBILT
Nov. 12 at Georgia
Nov. 19 ALABAMA A&M
Nov. 26 at Alabama
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