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re: Would the 2004 Auburn Team go 15-0 and win the CFP?
Posted on 7/24/18 at 2:55 pm to jchamil
Posted on 7/24/18 at 2:55 pm to jchamil
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Accurate statement, just had the misfortune of being in 2004 with 2 other big time programs being undefeated and one of them being an all-time type team
That was UGA's problem in 2002. Many, many other years a team slipped into the title game with 1 loss, but is just happened that Miami/OSU were both undefeated.
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Posted on 7/24/18 at 2:55 pm to WG_Dawg
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lol. It was a 3 point game
End of game trash points. Go watch the game.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 2:57 pm to AuburnPanic40
Are we saying if 2004 was a playoff or if they were inserted into 2018?
If we are talking in 2004, they would have had to beat Oklahoma and USC in a span of 7 days. Would have been a helluva challenge.
Auburn's best opponents in 2004 per the SRS Rankings
#12 Virginia Tech
#16 Georgia
#19 LSU
#21 Tennessee (2x)
Playoff opponents
#4 Oklahoma
#1 USC
Definitely not impossible. Probably 20%?
If we are talking in 2004, they would have had to beat Oklahoma and USC in a span of 7 days. Would have been a helluva challenge.
Auburn's best opponents in 2004 per the SRS Rankings
#12 Virginia Tech
#16 Georgia
#19 LSU
#21 Tennessee (2x)
Playoff opponents
#4 Oklahoma
#1 USC
Definitely not impossible. Probably 20%?
This post was edited on 7/24/18 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 7/24/18 at 2:57 pm to i am dan
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Yeah, you probably didn't watch it.
The old fashioned dig because someone doesn't have 10K+ posts on a message board
Posted on 7/24/18 at 2:58 pm to WG_Dawg
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I don't think so. I'm not gonna be stupid and say they weren't a good team or overrated, they were a damn good team. But I think if they had to play either USC/OU, then turn around the following weak and play the other one of those 2, I think it'd be too much for them to have done. Down the back stretch they played a bad bama team, a mediocre UT in the SECCG, and slipped past a 3 loss VT in their bowl game. That back to back combo of USC/OU would be a totally different animal.
Again, I don't object to the idea we wouldn't have beaten USC, but Auburn beat what, 5 teams when they were ranked top 10 that year?
Posted on 7/24/18 at 2:59 pm to i am dan
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End of game trash points. Go watch the game.
It looked ugly most of the game but they scored twice in the 4th quarter. It was a 3 point game with several minutes left. At that point you can't say they had "no chance".
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:00 pm to jlovel7
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No. That USC team was absolutely loaded.
Compared to Auburn they weren't. They had some guys who ESPN like though. NFL talent wise nobody compared to Auburn in 2004.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:01 pm to WG_Dawg
And when discussing VT that year, one of the 3 losses came to AU.
One of the others? USC.
VT was no slouch, they won like 6 straight games against ranked teams prior to the AU game.
One of the others? USC.
VT was no slouch, they won like 6 straight games against ranked teams prior to the AU game.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:01 pm to WG_Dawg
yeah you didn't watch the game 
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:04 pm to PEPE
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They barely squeaked by a mediocre Virginia Tech in their bowl game.
You mean the same VT team that USCheat barely beat that year, and needed a bs pass interference call to beat?
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Auburn 04 was certainly an okay team but no world-beaters or anything.
Yes. Only had the #1 defense in the country that year and 4 first round draft picks with more the following year. Such scrubs
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:05 pm to PEPE
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They barely squeaked by a mediocre Virginia Tech in their bowl game.
The same USC team was up 14-13 on VT with 5:32 to go in the game. Auburn was up 16-0 on VT with 7:00 to go in the game. Stupid argument.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:06 pm to jvilletiger25
That all time USC squad just squeaked by a mediocre UCLA team that season as well.
Auburn USC 2004 would have been a good game.
Auburn USC 2004 would have been a good game.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:07 pm to Tigerman97
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NFL talent wise nobody compared to Auburn in 2004.
Wut?
2005 & 2006 NFL Draft - USC
Reggie Bush, RB - 1st round
Matt Leinart, QB - 1st round
Mike Williams, WR - 1st round
Mike Patterson, DT - 1st round
Shaun Cody, DT - 1st round
Lofa Tatupu, LB - 2nd round
Winston Justice, T - 2nd round
Taitusi Lutui, G - 2nd round
LenDale White, RB - 2nd round
Frostee Rucker, DE - 3rd round
Dominique Byrd, TE - 3rd round
Darnell Bing, DB - 4th round
David Kirtman, RB - 5th round
LaJuan Ramsey, DT - 6th round
Fred Matua, G - 7th round
Matt Cassel, QB - 7th round
Manuel Wright, DT - Supplemental
2005 & 2006 NFL Draft - Auburn
Ronnie Brown, RB - 1st round
Cadiallac Williams, RB - 1st round
Carlos Rogers, DB - 1st round
Jason Campbell, QB - 1st round
Marcus McNeil, T - 2nd round
Devin Aromashodu, WR - 7th round
Stanley McClover, DE - 7th round
Ben Obamanu, WR - 7th round
Jeremiah Ratliff, DE - 7th round
That USC team was loaded with great college football players who were high draft picks
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:10 pm to Cocotheape
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Auburn USC 2004 would have been a good game
Hell, it was amazing that USCheat could only manage 23 points with how putrid Auburn's offense was that year, with the turnovers and starting deep into Auburn territory for most of the game.
P.S. Guess who was a co-OC for Auburn in 2003 LSU fans? Welcome to hell
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:26 pm to jvilletiger25
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Hell, it was amazing that USCheat could only manage 23 points with how putrid Auburn's offense was that year, with the turnovers and starting deep into Auburn territory for most of the game.
Wait, you're faulting USC for "only" shutting Auburn out 23-0 in Jordan-Hare?
This post was edited on 7/24/18 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:29 pm to Warrior Poet
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No. They really weren't that good. The benefactors of a down conference except LSU.
They played close games with LSU (#5 in the nation)and Alabama(Rivalry game)...and they pretty much blew everybody else out, or at least beat everybody else by double digits, so yes, I think it is safe to say they had a very good team.
This post was edited on 7/24/18 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:30 pm to AuburnPanic40
no but USC would have.
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:40 pm to i am dan
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They barely squeaked by a mediocre Virginia Tech in their bowl game.
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Did you watch that game? VT was nowhere in the neighborhood of having a chance in that game.
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Yeah, you probably didn't watch it.
Crap! Not trying to stick up for him or anything...
But I know people who watch 12 hours of football every week during the season that have zero posts on this board!
What does the number of posts a guy has have to do with whether or not he watched a game?
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:43 pm to AuburnPanic40
Not if they have to come to Death Valley
Posted on 7/24/18 at 3:52 pm to AuburnPanic40
Man, USC would have kicked Auburn's arse, same as they did the year before
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