re: Why is Auburn waiting until now

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Some entertainment from the AU board:

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if youre going to obsess over Auburn, at least put the posters' names next to the quotes.

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Why is Auburn waiting until now to claim the fictitious NCs?

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They've had four consecutive losing seasons

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playcalling is going to be done by three different people, depending on the down

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the quarterback situation isn't going as rosy as they had expected

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The August surprise amounted to 1 commit

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Hugh Freeze is playing golf

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I know you think Alabama did but they didn’t do what Auburn just did

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Elaborate.

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Elaborate

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Alabama claims one questionable title in 1941. Auburn just came up with 7 overnight. You should be embarrassed about claiming 1983, 1993 and 2004. Any non-major poll claim post poll-era is dumb. Alabama’s 1941 claim is dumb. They admit it’s dumb. Now it’s your turn

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It has everything to do with Alabama

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only in your prepubescent mind

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only in your prepubescent mind

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Whatever you say bud

I’ve asked you to cite specific examples. I’m still waiting

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We just aligned our standards with the nationally recognized standards.

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Please elaborate on what the “nationally recognized standard” is. TIA

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1983

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You just gave away your age if you don't see that AU got totally screwed in '83.

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Using polls that declare you national champion, regardless if said polls were around or established in the year of the season they are declaring you the champion.

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The problem is that’s not the “standard” nationally. Because a handful of schools do it doesn’t make it the “standard.”

And even the schools that do it, they don’t claim literally any poll that has ever named them champion. Alabama, for instance, has like 10 unclaimed titles to go along with their 18 claimed titles. If what you said was the “standard” no one would have unclaimed titles which almost everyone (except I guess Auburn now) does. LSU, for instance, has 6 unclaimed titles (I was able to add 1 more now that we’ve discovered the Montgomery End of Season Champion poll the last couple of days).

And fwiw I’m not arguing that there aren’t schools that claim bullshite titles but the depths Auburn has gone is absurd. Most notably, 1958, 1983, 1993, and 2004. You can feel screwed over in 83 and 04 but you were not the national champs based on the nationally and universally recognized systems in place those years. You want to argue about the Wild West prior to the poll era in 1936, have at it, because all title claims prior to 1936 are retroactive claims by everyone. National champions weren’t recognized prior.

A new day is upon you. The crying will continue on the rant as the 9x National Champion Auburn Tigers get back on top of the football world starting next Friday night.