re: Iron Bowl Voodoo

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Sorry you don't like local companies

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Russell Athletic hasn’t been local for 15 years. They’re owned by Fruit of the Loom and headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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2017- AU better, AU wins

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2017 Auburn lost 4 games.

2017 Alabama won the national championship.

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2017- AU better, AU wins


2017 Auburn lost 4 games.

2017 Alabama won the national championship.

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At the tail end of November AU had 2 "good" close losses by a combind 12 points and had just knocked off the #1 team in the coutnry 2 weeks before. Tjhey were ranked in the top 5 anbd abosolutely rolling.

Perhaps it would've been more accurate to call them on even footing rather than saying AU was better, that may not have been fully accurate. But what happened in Decembver/Januayr has absolutely nothing to do wiht how the teams shoudl be classified at Thanksgiving.

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Russell Athletic hasn’t been local for 15 years. They’re owned by Fruit of the Loom and headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Seeing as how that picture was taken 20 years ago they were a local company then.

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Couldn't convert a 4th and 1, OJ Howard had a completely unnecessary holding call to negate a run inside the 5, and Cade Foster could not kick a fricking field goal to save his entire family.

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Saban had no confidence that Foster could make a chip shot 25 yard FG and went for it instead and essentially cost Bama the game.

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I think Saturday's tragic embarrassment makes it more likely that Auburn pulls off an upset.

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i would argue the opposite. this series, despite common belief, is like 80% in favor of the favorite. and auburn just got thoroughly demoralized.

i doubt they suddenly find themselves on the field this week, but if alabama can't fire them up.... then nothing can.

they say you can throw the record book out on this game, but that's demonstrably false.

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2021- Bama much better, bama wins (although it's worth noting this one was a major WTF? game. Bama was a quite a bit better but looked like dogshit and barely escaped. So sure chalk this up to voodoo if you want)
2019- Teams evenly matched, AU wins
2017- AU better, AU wins
2015- Bama much better, bama wins
2013- Teams evenly matched, AU wins
2011- Bama much better, bama wins
2009- Bama much better, bama wins (albeit much closer than anyone may have thought)
2007- AU better, AU wins

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I'd argue that 2017 was more of an even matchup. Alabama came in dinged up on defense and Hurts was having an up and down season. Auburn was on a big time heater having just upset the #1 UGA squad a few weeks prior.

The big takeaway is HFA helps Auburn in closer matchups to secure wins; HFA helps make the alumni feel better about "makin' bama sweat" in the years where they're inferior in talent. Auburn has never won a game over Saban's Alabama where they have been the definitively worse team. That's not to say they haven't made Alabama sweat it out because they surely have and I expect the same this weekend.

Alabama hasn't played in a very hostile crowd since the Aggy game and they had a lot of OL miscues pre and post snap in that game. @State and @Kentucky don't prepare you for @Auburn all that much. Especially since the @UK kick was 11 AM. I'm interested to see the progress in that position group. I suspect drive killing holds will spell the difference between Alabama winning comfortably or uncomfortably (with the window for Auburn to actually pull it out).

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no businesses winning, but when has that ever stopped them?

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The last ten years, outside of to weeks.