Yeah, I mean it's almost like last year was the first season under a completely new coaching staff with a team that won a total of three games the year before, right? Crazy!!! You'd think a team that didn't just fire their coach and win zero SEC games less than 12 months earlier would have blown the doors off of Wazzou, Texas AM, MSU, etc.

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Auburn seems to blow up once every four years or so but not maintain it over a long period.

So you're, what, seven years old?

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SEC DCs will be preparing for their offense in the offseason with a year of tape.

Never gets old. I guess the high school offense won't work in the SEC throw away line isn't applicable anymore, huh?

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They had a favorable schedule last year, drawing Tenn from the East and getting UGA and Bama at home. But, then it gets real interesting, with:

@MSU
SC
@OM
A&M
@UGA
cupcake
@Bama.

Every game but the cupcake (Samford) is highly losable. Pay particular attention to that game at MSU next year, which is the game after LSU.

Amazing how the party line changes after the season ends, huh? Last years schedule was supposed to be tough for a 3-9 team with 7 SEC games in 9 weeks with trips to Baton Rouge, College Station, Fayetteville, & Knoxville.

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I see Auburn having a year similar to Texas A&M last year, 8-4 kind of thing.

Good for you.

The thing I find amusing, would be if Auburn went 8-4 last year under first year HC after the train wreck that was 2012, I think most people would consider that a great rebuilding year and peg Auburn as being a better all-around team than 2013 with the amount of returning starters. You know, that whole "2nd year under the new HC is when you really see a difference" thing. Now the team is going to be worse because of all the high paid DCs finally having a year of Gus Malzahn's film and the loss of Dee Ford.