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The Auburn Tigers have added the Mercer Bears to their 2025 schedule, FBSchedules. com has learned.
A copy of the football game contract with Mercer University received from Auburn University through an open registration application through the state.
Auburn will host Mercer at Jordan Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama, on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. The Tigers will pay the Bears a $475,000 guarantee for the contest, according to the contract.
Auburn and Mercer first met in boxing in 1896 and played a total of thirteen competitions. In their last meeting of 2022, the Tigers beat the Bears, 42-16, to extend their unbeaten streak in the series to 13-0.
Mercer is a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Last season, Mercer made it to the FCS playoffs, but fell along the way to eventual national champion South Dakota State, 41-0. and finished the season 9–4 overall (6–2 SoCon).
With the addition of Mercer, Auburn provisionally ended its non-conference program in 2025. The Tigers are scheduled to open the season on the road against the Baylor Bears on Aug. 30 before holding back-to-back home games against the Ball. . the State Cardinals on Sept. 6 and the South Alabama Jaguars on Sept. 13.
Earlier this month, the SEC announced the conflicting parties to the convention for the team in 2025, which are the same as in 2024 but with the sites reversed. Auburn will host Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky and Missouri and call at Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas A.
Mercer now has two conflicting parties announced outside of the convention for 2025, and both are road races. In addition to visiting Auburn, the Bears will face the Princeton Tigers on Oct. 11.
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