re: Your school's most suprising season

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It helped that he went from 35.5 attempts per game in 2007 to 23.0 attempts per game in 2008. I don't know what Applewhite was thinking with his play calling in 2007. Five games with 40 or more attempts in 2007, most attempts in a game in 2008 was 31.

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After the 2007 season, phone conversation between Mack Brown at Texas and Saban goes like this:

Saban's phone rings:

Brown-Hello Nick. Mack here. I'm thinking about hiring Muschamp and he gave you as a reference, Whadda you think?

Saban- Yeah. He good. Take him out of my hair. And while you're at it, take your boy Applewhite off my hands.


2008 both Muschamp and Applewhite are at Texas.

Pretty sure no one saw Lou Holtz winning 8 games in 2000 after going 0-11

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Good surprise: 1993. We had just finished two consecutive 5-win seasons, Dye had resigned in disgrace, had been humiliated by a former player for illegal benefits, we were on probation (if memory serves we were the last P5 program to receive a TV ban) and had hired an upstart HC from Division 1-AA Sanford (whom we had beaten 50-0 for one of our few wins the year before), based only on his last name. We managed to scrape by Ole Miss in the opener, beat LSU, Vandy & MSU (none of whom would finish above .500) before shocking #4 Florida in a huge upset. Ended with an improbable come from behind win in the IB over defending NC Bama and finished 11-0 and #5 in the AP.

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That might of been a NC team if not for probation. By the end of the year that team was tough, tougher than nails! Auburn had a running back, I can't recall his name, but he was mainly a fb or blocker, and he just would grind 1 yd 2,3 5, 7-9, and the off to the races 25-+ td!

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That might of been a NC team if not for probation.

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Doubtful. When the regular season had ended in 1993, there were three undefeated teams from major conferences: West Virginia (Big East), Nebraska (Big 8), and Auburn (SEC). What you also had was an 11-1 Florida State team that, despite its one loss, was ranked #1 above all the aforementioned teams. You also had an 11-1 Notre Dame squad that was just as highly regarded that had defeated Florida State late in the year.

There is no way Auburn gets a shot at the national crown if they aren't on probation. They weren't anywhere near as highly thought of as the above mentioned schools were entering the post-season. The only teams that had a legitimate shot at winning the national title at the end of the season were Florida State, Nebraska, West Virginia and Notre Dame.