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The gap between Bryant-Denny and Jordan-Hare hasn’t been this large, in Alabama’s favor, since 196...

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The gap between Bryant-Denny and Jordan-Hare hasn’t been this large, in Alabama’s favor, since 1969. The next year, Auburn expanded its stadium to make it bigger than Alabama’s. Both schools expanded more than once in the interim, but from 1970 until 2006, Auburn owned the largest on-campus football stadium in the state. Clearly, those days are over.

Kevin Scarbinsky: Alabama gets another leg up on Auburn in the arms race Why not expand? Simple, Auburn cannot consistently fill the 87,451 seat capacity Jordan-Hare Stadium now. The only games they can consistently get to capacity with is the Iron Bowl and the Georgia game, and there are routinely thousands of empty seats for "lesser" conference games (Ole Miss, Arkansas, MSU, etc.). At some point, you can build it all you want, but they still have to come.