re: What the hell is with all the Auburn hype?

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If it's a fluke to go to the national championship 3 years after you last played in it then Bama fans should know that we'll lately

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Not sure what this even means. The "Prayer at Jordan-Hare" is named that instead of "The perfectly executed call by an offensive genius" for a reason. The play call was great. You had a guy running wide open across the middle for the needed yards for a first down. Your QB chunked it into triple coverage, one UGA guy gets in the way of another UGA guy who was in position to intercept it. Louis showed tremendous concentration to catch the deflection, but the play was certainly not a result of anything other than a fluke (see Bluegrass Miracle, 2002, for similar example).

The Kick-Six was an amazing play, but it was also the only time in CFB history that a missed kick has been returned for TD to win a game (missed FG only returned for TD 4 times in CFB in last 50+ years).

AU's 2013 team was special. So was their 2010 team. That said, when the poster claimed that many view AU's 2013 success as "flukey" it is for the reasons outlined above combined with AU's seeming inability to string together consecutive stellar seasons over the past quarter century +.