re: If Auburn beats K State, it won't be because K State wasn't prepared

What Snyder has done at K State is impressive. No, if, ands, or buts, about it. It was a long, slow, and painstaking process to build that program up. And he did it twice.

That having been said... no one in the Big 12 runs a spread attack quite like the one Auburn features and I just don't think that K State is built to defeat it. Its not just a question of speed, K State does fairly well handling speed, its speed plus power.

LSU's blueprint for beating the spread starts well before their players line up for their first practice and is based around who they recruit to plug into their defense. The X's and O's of the Spread-killer defense work because of the players LSU has to run it.

KSU doesn't have the horses to run this race I think, not unless Auburn falls apart. Say Nick Marshall trips over an unseen, imaginary, dead turtle and sprains his pinky toe. Well, I can tell you from first hand experience Auburn is plenty dangerous without him.

Auburn pulls away in the home stretch of this one for a comfortable victory. Barring, of course, the sort of team collapse that would make Malzahn look like he was having a stroke on the sideline.