Allow me to balance out my super Disney thread with a more somber one..

last week I brought back memories of 06 Auburn. A game that Richt will pull out of a hat every so often where we are going against a very highly ranked team, the whole word is seemingly against us, we've been struggling, and BAM we come out guns a blazing and win the thing.

Well, this week is somewhat similar to the 97 Auburn game. We had just beaten Florida for the first time since 1989. We only had 1 loss, were ranked about 9th I believe (which was as high as we'd been in at LEAST 5 years, if not like 10), and were coming back to Athens to face a fairly good Auburn team with the SEC east in sight. We beat AU the year before when they were pretty good and we were BAD, surely this game was in the bag. Lo and behold, they punched us in the mouth, we played kinda flat, and just never recovered. We ended up losing by 11 (I believe) and the east was gone.

This year, more than the east is at stake. We have legit national title hopes which I HOPE will keep us focused. We're coming home off an emotional win over #2 Florida and playing a surprisingly resilient ole miss club that few people gave any thought to in September. Do I think we'll win. Well yeah. But if we don't come out 100% focused like we did against UF, I can see us lolligagging around and loafing our way to a close game before winning by like 7.