For the first time in school history, the Auburn football team will make a trip to Columbia, Missouri, to take on the Missouri Tigers, the SEC announced on Tuesday night.
Gus Malzahn and the Tiger football team will play five road games in 2017, including a visit to Missouri and a week two showdown at Clemson. Auburn will then make the four longest trips possible in the SEC, with visits to Missouri, Texas A&M, Arkansas and LSU. The Tigers will play at LSU and Arkansas in back-to-back weeks in October, then will take a bye week before traveling to College Station, Texas to take on the Aggies.
Auburn will host three non conference opponents in Georgia Southern, Mercer and Louisiana Monroe.
The Tigers will also host both Mississippi State and Ole Miss, and welcome Georgia and Alabama to The Plains in November.
The Southeastern Conference also announced the football schedules for all 14 SEC schools for the 2017 season.
With 13 playing weekends, 2017 includes one open date for each team and conference contests scheduled each week beginning the second weekend of September.
Each SEC team will play eight conference football games to include six games against division opponents and two games against non-division opponents. One of the non-division opponents will be a permanent annual opponent and the other non-division opponent will rotate each year.
The season begins the weekend of Sept. 2 with 14 games, including five neutral site games on opening weekend. The schedule includes two games on non-traditional days, with Tennessee playing Georgia Tech on Monday, Sept. 4, and Ole Miss visiting Mississippi State on Thursday, Nov. 23. It will mark the first year of a multi-year agreement to play the Ole Miss-Mississippi State game on Thanksgiving night.
The 2017 season will culminate with the first SEC Championship Game to be played in the new Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Saturday, Dec. 2. It will be the 26th edition of the game and the 24th in Atlanta.
A complete list of the SEC's 207 schedule can be found on SECsports.com
Auburn's full 2017 schedule can be seen below:
Sept. 2 vs. Georgia Southern
Sept. 9 at Clemson
Sept. 16 vs. Mercer
Sept. 23 at Missouri
Sept. 30 vs. Mississippi State
Oct. 7 vs. Ole Miss
Oct. 14 at LSU
Oct. 21 at Arkansas
Oct. 28 OFF
Nov. 4 at Texas A&M
Nov. 11 vs. Georgia
Nov. 18 vs. Louisiana Monroe
Nov. 25 vs. Alabama
Dec. 2 SEC Championship (at Atlanta)
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