One missed tackle Auburn's defense fails to come up with final stop on an otherwise impressive night
Auburn's Kris Frost tackles Florida State's Jameis Winston on a run during the second half of the NCAA BCS National Championship college football game Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Florida State and Auburn are discussing a neutral site game for the 2018 season, according to the Palm Beach Post.
The schools are "in the early stages of working out a game," according to the report, which cites an anonymous source. Attempts by AL.com to reach Auburn officials were not immediately successful Saturday.
The game will be played in Jacksonville if a contract is signed, according to the report.
If scheduled, the game would be a rematch of the 2014 BCS National Championship in which Florida State rallied in the final 13 seconds to beat Auburn 34-31. The Tigers and Seminoles have not met in the regular season since 1990, when the Tigers won 20-17 inside Jordan-Hare Stadium.
Auburn leads the series 13-5-1.
Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher was a quarterbacks coach and coordinator at Auburn from 1993 through 1998.
The game would certainly rekindle memories of one of the mid-south's best rivalries of the 1980s.
The SEC has tasked its programs to schedule at least one non-conference Power 5 team each season. The Tigers are scheduled to play Louisville (2015), Clemson (2016, 2017) and Cal (2020, 2021) in the future. Power 5 teams have not been scheduled yet for 2018 and 2019.
Auburn's non-conference opponents
2015
Sept. 5: Louisville (Georgia Dome, Atlanta)
Sept. 12: Jacksonville State
Oct. 3: San Jose State
Nov. 21: Idaho
2016
Sept. 3: Clemson
Sept. 10: Arkansas State
2017
Sept. 9: at Clemson
2018
TBA
2019
TBA
2020
Sept. 19: Cal
2021
Sept. 18: at Cal