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Auburn probably has a 60% chance of winning. Underestimating ya due to what we showed at Jordan hare will bring that down to 50%.

You are a good fan,I've seen your posts.I think if Dawg Fans aren't afraid of the fact we are Playing the team that trounced us,and Bama for the matter.But I have a different kind of feeling for this game,my hunches are usually spot on so far.I DO think just playing on their home turf alone helped them immensely in Our Game against them,and believe it or not Saban said the same about their game on AU's Turf. No way we make those same mistakes again.We have the talent to get the job done,and I really believe we will.GO DAWGS!!!

I know how I personally feel about this game in my gut doesn't matter, but for some weird reason I have such a calm, confident feeling for this Saturday.



The week leading up to the first matchup I was a nervous as hell and felt like something bad was brewing.


FWIW this is the same confident feeling I had last year when everyone said the Dawgs couldn't beat a top 10 Auburn team in Kirby's first year.



May my gut forever be right

All we have to do is show up and play the same Georgia football we've been playing all year and at will be fine.

Our players were out there trying to do too much and made uncharacteristic mistakes. If we can just eliminate those, it will be a close game.

Also, it took until 4 min left in the half for Auburn to scored a TD.

Our Def did not play bad at all.

This game definitely has a different outcome IMO.

If we had eliminated those stupid penalties, which were anomalies and kick that field goal, that score should have been more like 26-24 Auburn on their home field.

My prediction this time: 27-21 UGA

I think people might be underestimating just how much JHS has meant to Auburn this year. They're 7-0 at home but 3-2 away. Here are their games this year away from home:

@Clemson- L, 6-14
@Mizz- W, 51-14
@LSU- L, 23-27
@Ark- W, 52-20
@atm- W, 42-27

They haven't played away from JH since November 4th. Obviously they aren't going to forget how to football but realistically they haven't experienced a non-home crowd in a damn month. Sure the split may only be 60/40 in our favor but I think it not being 95/5 in their favor like it is at home could be huge.

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It is almost time for the big game, and I am sure hoping we pull it out. I have an 11 year old, and he doesn’t ever remember us winning an SEC title....Thanks CMR!

I think we have a chance, but I am not that optimistic. I know a lot of Auburn folks that are already talking about playing Clemson and Oklahoma in the playoffs. They don’t seemed concerned in the slightest. How is everyone feeling about the game?

I am not all that optimistic. I know they played a phenomenal lights out game a few weeks ago, but the way their D Line attacked us can’t be corrected in three weeks. Also, don’t see how we are going to run with 9 guys in the box. Hopefully, we call some screen plays or play action passes that develop very quickly to soften the defense up

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well your handle checks out...

That game was a perfect storm (which we've done to other people over the years as well) where a few bad breaks snowballed out of control.

yes they were physically much better. Yes they ran and passed all over us. Yes they handled our run game beautifully. But there were 3 quick possessions that basically led to it being a blowout.

-It was 7-9 midway through the 2nd quarter. We stopped AU again and forced htem to punt before they called the leaping penalty. We flat out gave AU the ball back, they scored a TD to make it 7-16.
-Poor clock management at the end of the 1st half led to a missed FG (not saying we "gave them" anythign here, just a miss). 10-16 is a lot different than 7-16.
-AU comes out start of 2nd half and we hold them yet again. Mecole fumbles at our 20 and AU scores again, it's now 7-23.
-We end up punting and AU gets it around midfield with our defnese honestly doing pretty well all things considered, then another PF penalty gives htem the ball at our 35. They score again and now we're totally done for


I'm not saying "take all those plays away and...." I'm just saying it's not like they just aboslutely pummeled us from start to finish the way we did to UT for instance. They had an explosion (similar to the start of our game against UF), partly due to great play by them and partly due to our errors (leaping, missed FG, PF penalties), that put the game out of reach.


No we are not all of a sudden going to get 50x better on the OL. No we are not all of a sudden going to have a DL full of all-pros. But we dont' need that. We jsut need to stay focused and not frick up. Not even sayign we're gonna win, but it's damn sure not gonna resemble the first matchup I know that. Especially with them not having the advantage of playing at home.

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I think people might be underestimating just how much JHS has meant to Auburn this year.

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If football is about timing, and it is, our OLine not losing a halfstep from a silent snap count bc of the rabid fans in JH, priceless. Prediction--our O performs significantly better in "neutral" ATL, especially the run game. Go Dawgs!