Athlon says.........

Short version: 2015 National Champions - Auburn Tigers

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Looks like a trip to Books-A-Million will be in my future

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Got mine at Publix

What would you like the title to say?

I will take it under consideration. Thanks for the input.

Hmm, difficult question. Dye did a lot for auburn but manning the guns and winning championships while your rival is on an unprecedented streak is a big deal too. I think would still be too early to tell definitively.

Gus has a long way to go before climbing the list of AU coaches. Its not a particularly long list as Shug, Dye, Bowden, Tubs and Chiz are the only coaches we have had in the past 60+ years.

He is off to a good start, but Bowden got off to an even better start going 20-1-1 his first two years. Of course that was with Dye's players and Gus had a role in recruiting a lot of his own players that he started with.

Dye's start was easily more impressive though. Took over a terrible, pitiful program with very little talent, piss poor facilities, an athletic department that was way in the red, and a beaten down fanbase. Year 1, Dye was 5-6, year 2 9-3, year 3 SEC and national champion.

Where did you buy that issue? (city and state?)

I bet if I go to my local grocery in Atlanta it will have a bulldog on the front. Bastards are sneaky because they know who buys this stuff and where.

Seriously? You really do not think AU was the national champ in 1983??

What the hell? Pretty much everyone who has ever analyzed that season and every computer poll in NCAA history calls AU the 1983 national champ. Scared of what others might say. Sorta pisses me off that we don't have the collective ball sac to claim that title as loudly as possible.

Frankly, I think it is an embarrassment and slap in the face to that team that we don't claim it. They sure as shite earned it with some historical accomplishments and records that no team in NCAA history has equaled as well.

Honestly I do not even think Miami was a top 5 team in 1983. My top 5 of 1983:

1. AU. Third most difficult schedule in NCAA history (no team has ever done as well against a schedule like that, hell, almost no team in NCAA history has even faced a schedule like that). Still the only team in NCAA history to defeat 5 top 20 teams in a row.

2. UGA. Ridiculous schedule, only loss was to AU (in Athens and they had a tie). Beat #2 Texas in the Cotton Bowl (home game for Texas). FTR, AU dominated them in Athens and a late score got them close and avoided a shutout, but they were dominated.

3. Texas. Beat AU in AU the second game of the season. Only loss was to #2 UGA, but it was basically in a home game and the last game they played. BTW, in his book Dye calls that the second worst coached game of his career (calls 1984 IB his worst). We came out throwing the ball all over the place, out of the wishbone and throwing ints and letting Texas build a big lead before kicking the shite out of them the entire second half (but not scoring much due to a 95 yard drive that chewed up almost an entire quarter where we fumbled on their 1 or 2 yardline).

4. Florida. Only losses were to AU and UGA, #1 and #2 IMO. Blew out Miami by 20 points.

5. Nebraska. Played no one all year. 1 ranked team. Lost to the only other ranked team they played, but it was in a home game for Miami and they only lost because they went for 2 instead of taking the tie.

6. Miami. Played two tough teams all year. Lost by 20 and won a home game because Nebraska didn't kick the extra point.

AU was the 1983 national champion. It isn't even debatable when one looks at what each team accomplished that year.

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Having been in school at that time, got damn right we were the NC's. If we had beaten Michigan in the Sugar Bowl by something more than 9-7, we would have been in the polls.

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I agree that we SHOULD HAVE BEEN voted champions.

And I agree we were the best team in the country.

But if you think the media was going to vote for ANYONE other than Nebraska and Miami, you're memory is faulty.

Hell, *every* goddam media outlet was advertising and announcing the Orange Bowl that year as "the national championship game". Did you think they were just referring to Nebraska?

We could have beaten Michigan 28-7 and it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference.