Beat Auburn Beat Hunger Sets Record Donations in 2025

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Every year, the University of Alabama partners with the West Alabama Food Bank to fight hunger and poverty in West Alabama with its annual Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive.

For the seven weeks leading up to the Iron Bowl (played every Saturday after Thanksgiving, in the final week of the college football regular season), both Alabama and Auburn, in coalition with the West Alabama Food Bank and the East Alabama Food Bank, are challenged to collect monetary and food donations to help local food banks.

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West Alabama set a record for donations in 2025, announcing on Friday that 630,624 pounds of food were donated during its annual food drive. The results, announced in a celebration at the West Alabama Food Bank, demolished the 2024 results, where Beat Auburn Beat Hunger raised 431,120 total pounds of food.

Auburn's Beat Bama food drive raised 648,305 pounds of food, winning the friendly competition against the Crimson Tide. The competition ran from October 3 to November 20. Together, Alabama and Auburn raised over 1.2 million pounds of food.

“We worked so hard this year and added so many new things, and it really paid off,” said CC Hahn, president of Beat Auburn Beat Hunger.

The University of Alabama says that all food and monetary donations collected during the Beat Auburn Beat Hunger food drive benefits the West Alabama Food Bank, which serves Bibb, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Sumter, and Tuscaloosa counties. Food insecurity in West Alabama ranges from 15-31%, according to the University.

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