re: Auburn's 2018 record (predictions)

This is probably the wrong thread to say it, but I would like to remind everyone with a functioning brain, that auburn, does in-fact... suck

26-14

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with LSU, A&M, Ole Miss and even Ark a

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Is this supposed to make your point? Because it doesn’t do a good job.

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So the outcome of the games were dependent of which division they represented ?

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Read again. I clearly said that we had our division sewed up when we faced Auburn. Don't you think there is a difference in the way a team typically plays when somethign is on the line and when something is not?

I also said, that Alabama did not show any tendancy to want to pull Jalen Hurts from a game during the regular season. That would lead us to believe that he would have remaned in the game had we been playing Alabama during the regular season and we might have beaten them. ****I also admitted that this was only speculation on my part and it could not be proven...much like your assertion that Georgia would not have made the SECCG had we been playing in the west****

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UA could even argue that the were the visiting team in the Championship Game.

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And if we had played them i the regular season they might have been the visiting team, so how would that change anything?

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Now replace KY, Vandy, Mizzu, SC, TN, with LSU, A&M, Ole Miss and even Ark and see if they would have survived the West with just those two loses to AU and UA. Maybe UGA would have been the first three loss team in the Playoff.

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Dude. The two divisions were not that far apart. True the West was tougher, but the west had 5 teams that finished with a record better than .500 and the east had 4. Get past Alabama and the divisions were not that lopsided. Yes. The West was better, but you guys seriously want to say the SEC Champions would not have made it out of the west division when we beat the west division champions? If you believe than, then the west division champions should beaten us and removed all doubt. Trouble with that is we dominated the west division champions by 21 points.

We had the #6 rated schedule in the country, so it is not like we had and easy schedule.

Sagarin Strength of Schedule rankings

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Is this supposed to make your point? Because it doesn’t do a good job.

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What it shows is the cumulative effect of an SECW schedule, and how it would cause more injuries and force the team to open the playbook. UGA schedule was set up perfectly for a team whose starting QB gets injured in the first game and they have to turn to a FR. With last years schedule they could let Fromm make safe passes and depend on their running game. How many losses could they have accumulated with that strategy with consecutive games against A&M, LSU, Ark and AL and AU ? Even the MSU would have had its effect on that gauntlet of a schedule. One thing we do know is that they lost to a least two SECW team and more than likely they would have been out of the SECCG.

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W - Washington / ATL
W - Alabama State
W - LSU
W - Arkansas
W - Southern Miss
W - at Mississippi State
W - Tennessee
W - at Ole Miss

-bye week- majority of fans are okay with Gus and supports his contract

W - Texas A&M
L - at Georgia
W - Liberty
L - at Alabama

- everyone hates Gus and is pissed about his contract and the buyout

L - Cap 1 Bowl vs some Big 10 team

- everyone is bitching for Gus to be fired

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I think 10-2 gives Gus a good opportunity to recruit. He is close. He has a long term contract. He just needs a few 5 stars and high 4 stars to walk in and get the program to that next level.

But the concern and reason for the question was if the fan base will make things so sour publicly to hurt that sales pitch. The Tennessee fan base shows that the tail can wag the dog. Is there a chance of that in Auburn?

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What it shows is the cumulative effect of an SECW schedule, and how it would cause more injuries and force the team to open the playbook.

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Good lord,please stop.Go ahead and look at how many players were injured for both UT and UF and get back to
me.

Here ya go

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Correct...silly things like "magic" are irrelevant, but it does point to the fact that AU clearly plays MUCH better at home. AU went 7-0 last year in JH with some major victories over elite teams; they went 3-4 away from JHS including 2 losses to teams they had no business losing to and 1 beatdown to a team they had already beaten earlier at home.

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It seems like it's been that way throughout Malzahn's tenure. Playing Auburn in Auburn is just a totally different animal, for whatever reason.

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It seems like it's been that way throughout Malzahn's tenure

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It better be if your road record vs your biggest rivals
is 0-8.

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It seems like it's been that way throughout Malzahn's tenure. Playing Auburn in Auburn is just a totally different animal, for whatever reason.

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Could it be the two best teams in the Gus Era were the 2013 and 2017 teams (home years) ?