re: Iron Bowl will be a night game

[qquote]I fully expect Alabama to “choke” in J-H as per tradition. [/quote]

What baloney, Alabama has lost 3 times at J-H in the last 17 years. Alabama is 13-4 overall during that time.

Auburn is 0-3 vs the SEC in J-H this year: UGA, Mizz, UK.

Alabama is not guaranteed to win but they rarely choke. In fact, they’ve made great clutch plays to win including their previous two trips to J-H. They’ve also boat raced them and had solid wins there.

But they need to go after it like other games this year against better teams like Vandy, UT, and LSU at home and UGA and Mizz on the road. We’ll see - there’s hope.

Oklahoma was our ticket to the playoffs. We didn’t punch it so now we go into an offseason of doubt after letting a bad Auburn team knock us out of the playoffs.

quote:

---

I know there is a lot of anxiety about this game but, if our team knowing this game is for absolutely everything loses. That’s on them. They should be so primal and determined in this game no one could stop them. The loss to Oklahoma should inspire them not make them fall further. All the pieces are there to assemble a great game for us we just have to execute. We will beat Auburn and win the SEC.

---

I think Bama wins this one but traditionally (at least in the last 20 years), Bama for some weird reason plays really tight and nervous there. I wouldn't say "afraid" but tight. They tend to make boneheaded mistakes that they normally wouldn't do, drop passes they normally catch, etc.

I'm hoping CKD and the staff can maybe get them relax a bit and just go out and play hard and execute.

Add to it the weird stuff that often seems to happen there (not just against us but other teams) such as weird bounces on the ball, freak plays, etc. Then of course, there are other things such as horrible calls or no calls by the refs there. I fully expect us to get fisted by the refs in that game.

At the coin toss, I'd like to see our guys walk out to the 50 yard line and each captain pull out a tube of Chap stick and proceed to take a full 30 seconds to apply it. When the head ref asks 'What are you doing? I hope Ty says, "We like to get kissed before we get screwed."

quote:

---

But that defense was as bad as any defense I can remember on a decent team. Right up there with Sunseri's unit at Tennessee in like 2012 or 2013 under Dooley when they had Bray.

---

The LSU debacle a couple years back has to be up there as well.

That secondary was absolute garbage particularly in the secondary.

Long range forecast indicating it could be in the 30’s. Just lovely.