wooooo

Make Alabama Mad Again Cam

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That fan base will shrink overnight that's for sure.

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I have the same sort of connection. I grew up in a "football family" but excelled at basketball. A group of my AAU team, including myself, would go to Duke every summer and participate in their team camps. I got to play against/with a bunch of Duke/NBA players from Duke and got coaching from their entire staff (Coach K would hold an hour to two hour long lecture with the entire camp every night where he focused on something else for a 5 day period, assistant coaches, one of which is now a head coach at a pretty big school, did hands on with us in groups of 5-7) it was a cool experience and I went for three years in a row.
While Im attending school somewhere that isn't auburn, a school not big on sports, my family all went there and multiple people in my family were professors and faculty members at auburn for a majority of their professional careers. I've been going to auburn games for as long as I can remember and following the teams on forums and what not since I was a kid.
So while I don't have a degree from either of the schools I'll root for, I'll root for auburn over anyone and I like to see Duke do well in basketball just from a nostalgic standpoint. In a tournament standpoint it would still be a little hard for me to root for Duke over any SEC team and vise versa.

Good thing not all fans blindly rage at rankings, wow at this thread

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The OU defense is ranked 91...91. WE are ranked 71, for fricking real.

You won't have a problem scoring. They also have faced exactly two top 50 defenses all year and lost both games.

Auburn should seriously show up for that game and should destroy OU assuming most of your minor injuries heal up by then.

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This is what I've been saying. Against OK, we will represent the SEC well.
We won't have to worry about passing too much as we will be able to run the ball down their throats with Pettway and KJ being healthier.
Our defense will be so much better than anything they've seen in a while, possibly all year. We will likely be able to create a few turnovers or get enough negative plays where we'd get some easy points.

The hire makes sense to me.
Let coach o have a go at it, if he provides the same love to the university as well as passion to player relations and recruiting that les did but allows his offensive and defensive coaches to do as they wish/need to LSU could be in a very good position.
You give him the title of head coach (instead of interim) so he can't be negatively recruited against. If he's not working out, it's easy to can him and then you've had a whole extra year of looking for the right choice.
This is assuming they don't tie him into a 5 year $6 trillion dollar buyout

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I'd say Vandy fans are the worst. With their book readin' and Asian girlfriends. I'd be glad to show those big headed bastards the square root of an arse kicking.

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Preach, start a thread, tell him to meet you at sonic

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What's the overall series record again?

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all time series record at Bryant-Denny
Auburn 7-3 Alabama
JJ6 for heisman!

Even though Gus and company have recruited well, the team takes a massive hit every time we get an injury.
Last year and the defense with Lawson
This years offense with Pettway.
the question to me seems to be we are not delivering against top defenses. There's always a reason: injuries, inconsistencies at QB but I want to see if Gus can put up big numbers against Bama with a healthy team. I don't want there to be an excuse like "well we didn't have Kam/Sean." Even though that's looking doubtful now

6-8 teams will allow non power 5 teams to get some chances. I would have enjoyed seeing a team like Houston in the playoffs last year. And six teams, giving the first two a bye gives more incentive to do well. Also, by allowing more "mid-major" teams to have a chance, it will make the season more fun by making more games meaningful due to playoff implications likely spreading to other conferences.