re: Longest streaks of finishing UNRANKED during the modern era

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Your nemesis is gone, no more excuses

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Relative to the rest of the SEC, Saban wasn’t our nemesis. I mean, yeah our record against him was bad, but it was better than everyone else’s.

Auburn finished 5-12 against Saban while at Alabama (we were 3-2 against him when he was at LSU). Four of those 12 losses to him at Bama were games in which Auburn led in the 4th quarter.

I’m going to guess very few, if any, other programs can claim 8 wins against Saban.

Until the last four years, Auburn did just fine during the Saban era:

1 National Title (2010)
2 National Title Appearances (2010, 2013)
2 SEC Titles (2010, 2013)
3 SEC West Titles (2010, 2013, 2017)

Considering Saban’s success across the state, I believe Auburn did about as well as could be expected from 2007-2019. At the end of the 2019 season, Auburn had all of the above accomplishments plus a 5-8 head-to-head record. But then Gus struggled in the Covid year. Auburn made a horrific hire in Brian Harsin, and it’s taking Freeze a bit of time to dig out from that hole.