With Auburn football taking multiple losses in a row to knock them out of the College Football Playoff conversation and Auburn basketball self-imposing a postseason ban and having to go without their star 2020 recruit Sharife Cooper for the foreseeable future, the Auburn Tigers fanbase needed some good news.
On Tuesday afternoon, it arrived. Through what has undoubtedly been a difficult year for the school’s two major teams, the fanbase was recognized as the seventh-best in 2020 for anyone in the NCAA in the FanSided 250.
Auburn outranked Memphis–who saw their #2 selected NBA lottery talent James Wiseman get selected to the team that dominated the last half-decade–as well as Oregon–who saw their star quarterback Justin Herbert get selected one choice before Derrick Brown.