re: Rhett Lashlee

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quote: Ignore the scores. Yes, Auburn could have easily finished 8-4 and gone to the Gator Bowl instead of 12-2 with a national title shot last year. Half of its wins came by a touchdown or less, and it used back-to-back miracles to take down Georgia and Alabama

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But you left off the rest of the paragraph and it's main point. May I help?

Ignore the scores. Yes, Auburn could have easily finished 8-4 and gone to the Gator Bowl instead of 12-2 with a national title shot last year. Half of its wins came by a touchdown or less, and it used back-to-back miracles to take down Georgia and Alabama. But what's also true is that, by the end of the season -- one year after finishing 3-9 overall and winless in the SEC under a different regime -- Auburn was good enough to 1) essentially play to a draw with Alabama, 2) run for 545 yards and score 59 points in a conference title game against the SEC's best defensive line, and 3) become pretty much the only team to stay within a zillion points of Florida State.