re: Which Iron Bowl win was the most unlikely for Auburn

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Which Iron Bowl win was the most unlikely for Auburn
I didn't know about the 1972 game, but from your description, it has to be that one. Bama up 3 scores and undoubtedly Auburn's offense hadn't threatened at all for the first 50 minutes.

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1972 LSU had Bert Jones at QB, under utilized in Mac's offense even by the offensive schemes of that era. Still LSU was 9-1-1 in regular season, Loss at Bama (#2) LSU was (#6) 35-21 and tied Florida 3-3 in a moon soon type game. Played TENN in the bowl game and loss 24-17.

Another tidbit about 1972 it was the last year of non-standardized SEC scheduling. Bama played 8 league games, went 7-1 Auburn played 7 went 6-1, but Bama won SEC on winning %. UGA, Florida, UK, Ole Miss, Miss State also played 7 games. LSU/TENN/Vandy played 6 league games that year. Part of the problem was Tulane and GA. Tech were supposed to be on teams schedules with 6 games but them dropping out of the SEC 7 years earlier was still impacting SEC scheduling. Starting in 1974, SEC went to standard 5-1 schedule, 5 permanents and 1 rotation among the 4 non-permanent SEC teams.