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The Auburn Tigers will look to keep pace in the SEC with the Alabama Crimson Tide, but they’ve got a tricky game this Saturday versus the Tennessee Volunteers.
The Auburn Tigers will look to keep pace in the SEC with the Alabama Crimson Tide, but they’ve got a tricky game this Saturday versus the Tennessee Volunteers.
Its is still kind of hard to believe the season that Auburn is having, I don’t recall anyone predicting they would be a sleeper in the SEC. They beat Texas A&M on the road and their only loss this year is to LSU, also on the road.
The No. 24 Auburn Tigers will aim to maintain their momentum after last week’s win over Texas A&M when it hosts nonconference foe Florida Atlantic on Saturday.
The Owls will arrive in Auburn following a its fifth loss of the season.
Since losing to Alabama there hasn’t been a ton of talk about Texas A&M or Johnny Football in the national media. The fact is that they are still gunning for a BCS bid as they take on this very mysterious Auburn team.
I suppose it shows how far the Arkansas State program has come that they are now the one’s scheduling in state cream puffs to start the season, before they used to be the cream puff. Last week they beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff 62-11, with their third head coach in as many seasons.
Auburn had a staggering fall last season to a season of zero wins in the SEC and a 3-9 overall record. The performance, or lack thereof, cost coach Gene Chizik his job and it is hard to believe that this program won a national title within the last recruiting cycle.
Just don’t blow it Georgia Bulldogs. This is the last hurdle between a return trip to the SEC title game. Georgia got off to a slow start against Mississippi last week so they will want to roar out of the gate this week and not let the Tigers into the game.
It is hard to tell how good this Texas A&M team is as both times they took on heavyweights it was clear that this team still has some training to do.
From darkhorse BCS challenger to SEC West doormat…that didn’t take long. Arkansas is clearly not having the season they expected and it is amazing to think they have just 1 victory in 5 tries on the season.
Auburn fans weren’t thrilled when Gene Chizik, then from Iowa State, was hired to replace Tommy Tuberville, but Chizik has done an excellent job with the Tigers. He delivered the program’s second national title in 2010, its first since 1957.
When LSU beat Marquette it was thought that the SEC might have more depth than expected this year.
Not only is Alabama one of the best teams in the country (Tide fans might argue the best, as it was their own foolish miscues that put the LSU game out of reach in OT) it has an axe to grind with its hated Iron Bowl rival.
In recent seasons, “The Battle of the Tigers” has been a can’t-miss for SEC fans and college football fans alike. Conventional wisdom would say that some of the pinch has been taken out of the match-up with the departure of all-world Auburn QB Cam Newton, but Auburn is notoriously testy in big games.
Both of these SEC strongholds have hit turbulence in recent weeks. The Florida Gators have lost consecutive games – badly to West division stalwarts Alabama and LSU. Auburn, meanwhile, is coming off a 38-14 spanking at the hands of Arkansas.
Two strong SEC West division teams not named Alabama and LSU do battle on Saturday night in the foothills of the Ozarks. The visitor happens to be last year’s National Champion – an Auburn team that was invincible until an upstart Clemson program humbled them a couple weeks back.
It hasn’t always been pretty for the Ole Ball Coach and his South Carolina Gamecocks, but the bottom line speaks loudest, which is Carolina beating unbeaten and ranked #10 in the FBS.