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Auburn ‘talking to anybody’ for nonconference games in 2018-19

Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs spoke during the SEC Spring Meeting of plans he has to upgrade numerous athletic facilities around campus.

That’s the message Auburn’s athletic director had last week at the SEC Spring Meeting in Destin, Fla., when he was asked about scheduling nonconference opponents for football during the 2018 and 2019 seasons.

“We're talking to anybody that will talk to us, and what I said, when we went to 12 games, we're going to have a BCS opponent as our 12th team,” Jacobs said at the Sandestin Hilton Resort last Wednesday. “And so we'll go anywhere and play anybody in a home-and-home, or we'll go to a neutral site to play it.