Rejoice Auburn football fans, the 2025 season is here.

With the new season comes a new series on AL.com where each week, our Auburn beat writers will predict the result of the upcoming Auburn game.

What’s the catch? This series will feature a third predictor, but it won’t be a person: hence the title, “Man vs. Machine”.

Along with our predictions, we will simulate each game on EA Sports’ College Football 26 and break down the result of the simulation.

This week, Auburn’s opponent is Baylor. Here’s the result EA Sports came up with in our simulation, followed by our picks.

EA Sports College Football 26 Simulation

Score: Auburn 44, 41 Baylor (OT)

The simulation we ran of Friday’s game on EA Sports College Football 26 was a shootout.

Eighty-five combined points, 1,240 combined y

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