Editor’s Note: These stories reflect AL.com ‘s look back at the legendary Auburn career of Cam Newton as he returns to Auburn for his jersey retirement vs. Georgia on Oct. 11 at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Auburn is set to honor its 2010 national championship team on Saturday, 15 years after Cam Newton, Nick Fairley, Gene Chizik and the Tigers made their unlikely undefeated run through the college football landscape.

But just how unlikely was Auburn’s championship? It’s on the short list of most-unlikely in the modern era of college football.

But is it No. 1?

To answer that question, we studied every national champion since 1968 across categories such as preseason ranking, championship and coaching pedigree, success immediately before and immediately after its title run and amount of

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