Auburn fans may never experience a nightmare quite like they got New Year’s Day 2018

Nobody had a worse New Year’s Day than the Auburn Tigers.

The day began with Tigers fans likely still wondering what could have been this season. Auburn was one of the hottest teams in the country down the stretch and secured big wins over Georgia and Alabama in the last month of action. Unfortunately, Auburn would come up short in the SEC Championship.

The Tigers, hampered by the injury to star RB Kerryon Johnson, were sluggish and ineffective as Georgia rolled to a win in Atlanta. The loss knocked Auburn out of the College Football Playoff, and Tigers fans had to watch as their two biggest rivals advanced to the Playoff.

The consolation prize for Auburn was a Peach Bowl matchup with UCF that did not go well. The Knights outplayed Auburn and went on to knock off the Tigers by a score of 34-27 to complete a perfect season for UCF.

New Year’s Day would only get worse as Auburn had to watch its rivals secure wins in the Playoff and advance to the national championship game. Regardless of the outcome on Jan. 8, it is hard to deny that everything went wrong for Auburn on the first day of 2018.

Auburn fans on Twitter are understandably having a tough time dealing with everything that went down on Monday:

So are we just gonna pretend like it doesn’t suck to be an Auburn fan???

— Justin Phatsadavong (@jphat4) January 2, 2018

https://twitter.com/_EdwardBeasley_/status/948193813234900992

https://twitter.com/BrettPowers_2/status/948192957018050560

UCF, then UGA, then Bama. Yesterday was the worst day to be an Auburn fan since I don’t know when.

— Henry Menge (@NashMenge) January 2, 2018

https://twitter.com/connormachen/status/948189266701639680

As if the Bama/UGA matchup wasn’t bad enough for an Auburn fan, now the demand for putting my place on Airbnb has fallen to virtually 0. COOL.

— David (@arnolda87) January 2, 2018

https://twitter.com/colthudson45/status/948183675031703553

I wake up to Alabama and Georgia playing for the National Championship.

As an Auburn fan, I’m absolutely SICK for a multitude of reasons.

And because I’m in prep right now, I can’t drink.

Jesus be with me.

— Meghan L. Hall (@ItsMeghanLHall) January 2, 2018

For an auburn fan, yesterday was like asking a girl to marry u & she say no, while on the same day having 2 other girls you could potentially like at some point get happily engaged.

— Daniel Covert (@danielcovert7) January 2, 2018

Some Auburn fans are even left doing the unthinkable in deciding to cheer for Georgia in the championship:

https://twitter.com/payton1435/status/948187075186130946

I’m a die hard auburn fan, and hate bama and Georgia both. If there was anyone else playing with one of them I’d pull for the other team, I guess in this natty I’ll be pulling for Georgia bc the hate for Alabama is real down here in auburn ?

— Steven Hale (@stevohale) January 2, 2018

Alright #UGA you have one job. Beat #Alabama. This #Auburn fan can’t fully “pull” for you but I definitely can’t stomach another championship going to Saban.

— Beth Chalmers (@chalmeba) January 2, 2018

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey lives in Atlanta and covers SEC football.