Auburn’s cross-division rotational games in 2016 will take place over consecutive weeks. After hosting Vanderbilt on Nov. 5, the Tigers visit Georgia seven days later.

The Auburn-Vanderbilt series happens to be one of the SEC’s most competitive rivalries. The Commodores have won the last two matchups to take a 21-20-1 lead in the series.

The last time the teams played was in 2012, when Vandy held off the Tigers 17-13 in Nashville. Zac Stacy had a memorable game with 27 carries for 169 yards and the go-ahead touchdown on his way to becoming Vanderbilt’s all-time leading rusher.

Vandy was able to overcome a fourth-quarter fumble by Stacy that allowed Auburn to take over at its 32-yard line with 2:24 left. However, the Commodores held on for the victory when Clint Moseley overthrew an open Sammie Coates on a 4th-and-13 play with 52 seconds to go.

The defeat dropped the Tigers to 1-6 overall and 0-5 in the SEC, which was their worst start since they also lost six of their first seven in 1952. Five weeks later — after a 49-0 loss to Alabama — Auburn fired Gene Chizik less than two years after he led the Tigers to their first national championship since 1957.

James Franklin, Vanderbilt’s coach in that 2012 win over Auburn, would lead the Commodores to a 9-4 record that season and followed that up with the same mark a year later before leaving for Penn State. Vandy replaced him with Derek Mason, who has gone 7-17 in his two seasons in Nashville.

Auburn’s longest win streak in the series is 13 straight, which it pulled off from 1978-2007. Vanderbilt won eight in a row from 1929-1950 in a series that kicked off with a 30-10 Auburn victory in 1893.

Vanderbilt has the largest margin of victory in the series — a 54-0 win in 1905. Auburn’s biggest blowout victory was a 56-6 romp in 1920. Yet the average score of a game in this series is about as close as it can get: Auburn 17.4, Vanderbilt 17.2.