USA TODAY Sports predicts the winner of Alabama football vs Auburn

Alabama football heads to The Plains to close the 2025 regular season Saturday in another high-stakes Iron Bowl showdown with the Auburn Tigers at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Alabama (9-2 overall, 6-1 SEC) is ranked No. 10 in the US LBM Coaches Poll and in the latest CFP rankings. Coach Kalen DeBoer's team can clinch a berth in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta with a win Saturday.

But as Alabama fans know all too well, winning at Jordan-Hare is never easy. The Crimson Tide have won five straight in the Iron Bowl rivalry, but their last two trips to Auburn were nothing if not chaotic.

Alabama needed two spectacular comebacks against the Tigers to emerge victorious and keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive in 2021, and most recently in 2023. The Tide got them thanks to the heroics of Bryce Young, Jalen Milroe and others, pulling out a 24-22 win in four overtimes in 2021, and a 27-24 win in their last visit to Jordan-Hare.

Auburn (5-6, 1-6) is unranked entering this year's Iron Bowl, but all six of the Tigers' losses this season have been by 10 points or less. Interim coach D.J. Durkin had Auburn playing well in a 45-38 overtime loss to Vanderbilt in Nashville on Nov. 8, and last week in the Tigers' 62-17 win over Mercer.

As we've seen in the past, anything can happen when Alabama and Auburn meet, especially on The Plains.

Is another classic in store for the 90th edition of the Iron Bowl rivalry Saturday?

Who has the edge? USA TODAY Sports' prediction for Alabama vs Auburn

On Wednesday, USA TODAY Sports' team of college football experts unveiled their weekly picks and predictions for every top 25 team in Week 14, including Alabama-Auburn.

"Fittingly for this holiday weekend, the college football schedule offers a fully laden buffet table. Every team in the US LBM Coaches Poll Top 25 is in action, with five ranked matchups highlighting the menu that will impact the College Football Playoff." --USA TODAY Sports' Eddie Timanus.

Will Auburn pull an upset and end the Crimson Tide's hopes of an SEC title and College Football Playoff appearance?

The six-man panel of Timanus, Paul Myerberg, Matt Hayes, Blake Toppmeyer, Erick Smith and Jordan Mendoza don't see it happening. All six USA TODAY Sports panelists see the Crimson Tide beating the Tigers for their sixth straight win in the Iron Bowl.

What is Alabama football's history vs Auburn?

Alabama leads the all-time series vs. Auburn, 51-37-1. The Crimson Tide have won the last five games against the Tigers and are 11-3 against Auburn in the series' last 14 meetings dating back to 2011.

The Tide defeated the Tigers, 28-14, in the last matchup on Nov. 30, 2024, at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa in Kalen DeBoer's first Iron Bowl as Alabama's coach.

In the most recent Iron Bowl showdown at Jordan-Hare Stadium, Alabama rallied for a 27-24 victory when Jalen Milroe found Isaiah Bond for a touchdown in the back of the end-zone on fourth-and-goal from the 31-yard line with 32 seconds left.

The Crimson Tide are 7-10 all-time in games at Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium but have won eight of the past 10 Iron Bowl showdowns.

Here are game-by-game results for Alabama vs. Auburn from the past 10 years.

• 2024: Alabama 28, Auburn 14

• 2023: Alabama 27, Auburn 24

• 2022: Alabama 49, Auburn 27

• 2021: Alabama 24, Auburn 22 (4OT)

• 2020: Alabama 42, Auburn 13

• 2019: Auburn 48, Alabama 45

• 2018: Alabama 52, Auburn 21

• 2017: Auburn 26, Alabama 14

• 2016: Alabama 30, Auburn 12

• 2015: Alabama 29, Auburn 13

Alabama football vs Auburn: TV channel, announcers for 2025 Iron Bowl

Kickoff for Alabama-Auburn is 6:30 p.m. CT. The game will be televised on ABC. Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit will have the call of the game from the broadcast booth at Jordan-Hare Stadium, with Holly Rowe reporting from the sidelines.

The Crimson Tide Sports Network radio broadcast featuring Chris Stewart and Tyler Watts can be heard on SiriusXM channel 82.

Alabama football schedule 2025

Here's a game-by-game look at Alabama football's 2025 schedule.

All start times Central.

• Aug. 30: at Florida State (L, 31-17)

• Sept. 6: vs. UL Monroe (W, 73-0)

• Sept. 13: vs. Wisconsin (W, 38-14)

• Sept. 27: at Georgia (W, 24-21)

• Oct. 4: vs. Vanderbilt (W, 30-14)

• Oct. 11: at Missouri (W, 27-24)

• Oct. 18: vs. Tennessee (W, 37-20)

• Oct. 25: at South Carolina (W, 29-22)

• Nov. 8: vs. LSU (W, 20-9)

• Nov. 15: vs. Oklahoma (L, 23-21)

• Nov. 22 vs. Eastern Illinois (W, 56-0)

• Nov. 29: at Auburn, 6:30 p.m., ABC

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