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Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:29 pm to AUTiger789
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:29 pm to AUTiger789
We Dawgs don’t post about 1913 on sports board.
Hey AU. It’s 2024! And you haven’t been relevant in almost 20 years. Maybe you’d do better if y’all hired a decent human being as your HC and stopped living off things that happened over 100 years ago
Hey AU. It’s 2024! And you haven’t been relevant in almost 20 years. Maybe you’d do better if y’all hired a decent human being as your HC and stopped living off things that happened over 100 years ago
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Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:40 pm to SaturdayNAthens
quote:We can touch on 1914, 1957, 1983, 1993, 2004 and 2010 if it makes you feel any better
1913? Are you kidding me? It’s pathetic that AU is reduced to talking about 1913.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:07 pm to ChexMix
IMO:
1957 and 2010 are our two actual, indisputable National Titles
1983 and 2004 should not be claimed, but are probably the two biggest screw jobs any program has endured in the past 50 years (I’d put 1964 Arkansas right up there on this list as well as the worst all time)
1913 is stupid to claim now… as all titles are pre-1936. However, as ancient, retroactive titles go, it’s got as much merit as any other team’s titles claimed prior to 1936. We were certainly the best team that year based on all the data that exists.
1993 was a great year and should be celebrated for what it was. As stupid as that probation was, it was due to some improprieties. Had Auburn managed to play for the SEC Title and beat Florida a second time…. Then had we won the Sugar Bowl against unbeaten West Virginia… I think we would have had a shot of a split National Title with FSU.
But we don’t know. Blame that on Auburn along with all the other close calls (ie 1958… had we not tied GA Tech we’d be ‘58 champs instead of LSU). Of course we also narrowly missed in ‘13.
Bottom line. Auburn has two national titles…. We’ve twice been majorly screwed… we probably have an ancient one from back before actual National Titles existed…. and we’ve had numerous other great seasons that were a hair short of probably winning another one.
All this spread out over a 110-year period that spanned many generations. Quite the contrast to what the theme of this thread is.
1957 and 2010 are our two actual, indisputable National Titles
1983 and 2004 should not be claimed, but are probably the two biggest screw jobs any program has endured in the past 50 years (I’d put 1964 Arkansas right up there on this list as well as the worst all time)
1913 is stupid to claim now… as all titles are pre-1936. However, as ancient, retroactive titles go, it’s got as much merit as any other team’s titles claimed prior to 1936. We were certainly the best team that year based on all the data that exists.
1993 was a great year and should be celebrated for what it was. As stupid as that probation was, it was due to some improprieties. Had Auburn managed to play for the SEC Title and beat Florida a second time…. Then had we won the Sugar Bowl against unbeaten West Virginia… I think we would have had a shot of a split National Title with FSU.
But we don’t know. Blame that on Auburn along with all the other close calls (ie 1958… had we not tied GA Tech we’d be ‘58 champs instead of LSU). Of course we also narrowly missed in ‘13.
Bottom line. Auburn has two national titles…. We’ve twice been majorly screwed… we probably have an ancient one from back before actual National Titles existed…. and we’ve had numerous other great seasons that were a hair short of probably winning another one.
All this spread out over a 110-year period that spanned many generations. Quite the contrast to what the theme of this thread is.
This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 5:09 pm
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:08 pm to AUTiger789
quote:bullshite. USC had their title stripped for cheating and OK was a garbage team that didnt deserve to be there.
Auburn should never claim 2004
Auburn was the clear national champion who didnt have to cheat to earn success.
100% should claim it.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:16 pm to AUTiger789
quote:NO they are not. Those teams earned those titles and to arbitrarily write them off is wrong. 1913 Auburn football team were National Champions. So were the 1914 Auburn Tigers that didnt allow a single point the entire year. Not a single point.
1913 is stupid to claim now… as all titles are pre-1936
At this point, I completely disagree with your entire assessment of which titles Auburn University should claim. Im not going through one by one
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:17 pm to AUTiger789
1957 ? Hell that was even before integration. Talk about living in the past!
In the more recent SEC, since divisional play for example, i am pretty sure UF represented the East division more than any other team, snd has for sure won more SEC and national titles than Auburn
In the more recent SEC, since divisional play for example, i am pretty sure UF represented the East division more than any other team, snd has for sure won more SEC and national titles than Auburn
This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 5:18 pm
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:42 pm to ChexMix
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Bama fans showing their stupidity once again. The first was in 1913. The second in 1914. 1957 was our 3rd National Championship
Is Auburn claiming such things now?
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:46 pm to ChexMix
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bullshite. USC had their title stripped for cheating and OK was a garbage team that didnt deserve to be there.
Auburn was the clear national champion who didnt have to cheat to earn success.
100% should claim it.
National Championships are awarded, not claimed.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:49 pm to leeman101
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AU also got robbed in 1983 and went undefeated in 1993 and 2004. Many teams would claim those years.
2004 was a great team and although I believe USC would’ve beat Auburn that year, I thought Auburn was clearly the better team vs Oklahoma and would’ve loved to see Auburn vs USC for the title. I do agree that Auburn should have had at least a share of the championship that year.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:59 pm to ChexMix
I feel fine. Why wouldn’t I? Georgia is the best team in the country.
AU is the one that is trying to impress everyone by touting championships that supposedly occurred even before my great granddaddy was born
Poor AU. Bamas little brother and Georgias chew toy. It’s really sad.
AU is the one that is trying to impress everyone by touting championships that supposedly occurred even before my great granddaddy was born
Poor AU. Bamas little brother and Georgias chew toy. It’s really sad.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:35 pm to AUTiger789
Preach, brother! We are SO impressed. Fourteen years since a bought and paid for QB and a thug who should have been arrested made AU proud.
It’s been 14 years, a couple of huge buy outs and a lot of embarrassments since y’all can claim anything of any importance.
And now a Bible thumping whore hiring fellow is leading your program. Never change AU. Its a lot of fun watching the constant drama y’all create and even more fun to pound y’all into the turf every year
It’s been 14 years, a couple of huge buy outs and a lot of embarrassments since y’all can claim anything of any importance.
And now a Bible thumping whore hiring fellow is leading your program. Never change AU. Its a lot of fun watching the constant drama y’all create and even more fun to pound y’all into the turf every year
This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:41 pm to AUTiger789
They may be down right now but have most of the things necessary to rise again. I'd wager the right coaching hire could get them back in the thick of things, but it will be difficult to get back to where Gata was with corch Irving Meyers. Difficult but not impossible.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:42 pm to AUTiger789
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It’s crazy to me that the entire state of Florida could be dormant as a football power for decades…. Then have the the Top 3 programs for a a quarter century, and then basically fall back down to mediocrity (with the exception of a few seasons for FSU).
Miami, FSU, and Florida essentially invented modern college football in the late 80’s and early 90’s. They prioritized speed and fast twitched athletes on offense and defense, ran schemes that took advantage, and recruited whoever they wanted with no regard for grades or whether they were from a “good family.” By the time the rest of the game started trying to catch up, those three were so far ahead they had nearly 20 years to run the show. Eventually others did catch up, and later passed them, as Florida, Miami, and FSU fell behind in the money and facility wars without the huge traditional alumni support the blue bloods have.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:44 pm to AUTiger789
I’d personally rather be relevant during the most competitive era of modern football (post 1974) than have that same honor when Jerry Jones was an offensive lineman at 165 lbs but hey, that’s just me.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:45 pm to 3down10
quote:thats rich coming from a bama fan
National Championships are awarded, not claimed.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:46 pm to MillerLiteTime
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Miami, FSU, and Florida essentially invented modern college football in the late 80’s and early 90’s. They prioritized speed and fast twitched athletes on offense and defense, ran schemes that took advantage, and recruited whoever they wanted with no regard for grades or whether they were from a “good family.” By the time the rest of the game started trying to catch up, those three were so far ahead they had nearly 20 years to run the show. Eventually others did catch up, and later passed them, as Florida, Miami, and FSU fell behind in the money and facility wars without the huge traditional alumni support the blue bloods have.
The state of Florida itself didn’t have a population boom until the late 70s either. The population boom made the recruits what they were in the 80s and what they still are now. There’s more NFL players from the state of Florida than anywhere in the country.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:56 pm to ChexMix
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thats rich coming from a bama fan
All of Alabama's National Championships were awarded by some type of selector. I don't claim 1941, but even it was awarded by a math poll.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 7:39 pm to AUTiger789
Well they won 3 titles. Not sure where you are going with this but I would think that would be more than one hit.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 8:12 pm to AUTiger789
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one-hit wonder
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Auburn Fan
Posted on 5/23/24 at 8:34 pm to FireDanMullen
This is 100% the reason and it’s crazy it took 4 pages for it to come up. The state was middle of the pack population wise until the growth of the sunbelt in the 70s. Now we have the third most people of any state after California and Texas. Hell, we have almost twice as many people as Georgia.
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