Let’s take a look Auburn’s first game with Texas A&M — which was in 1911, Winsipedia, not 1916 — and refer to a 112-year-old Auburn team as “we” a lot.
True, we rarely investigate Auburn losses. But that’s kind of all we have to work with here. So let’s find some excuses for it.
Played in Dallas, the game was billed as the biggest in the south that year, which, sure, papers were wont to do with pretty much every game. But one rag even hyped it as the de facto Championship of the South, deeming Auburn the best team in the southeast (which wasn’t far off at that particular point in the Days O’ Donahue), and A&M the best in the southwest.