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We could run the option just as effectively as them since the talent difference is so large. It's like the talent difference between LSU wide receivers and Bama wide receivers

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You're right, and LSU could run Mike Leach's passing offense just as effectively with a larger talent difference. Do you understand how long it takes schemes to be implemented?

And thanks to those who called me illiterate, it's amazing how I'm able to type out sentences with words and read and shite and still be an illiterate mook. It shows how much of an adult you are. You must have a solid point if your biggest rebuttal is namecalling.

Plus one. /thread

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2010 Auburn should be on there without a doubt. As a team, not as strong as most on the list.. but in a one game winner take all..

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While you may be right that the 2010 AU team would be a tough out in a one game, winner take all situation, this does in fact say Top 10 TEAMS, not Top 10 hardest matchups for an unspecified opponent. You said it yourself, not as strong as most on the list as a team, and it's a team-based ranking.

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USC. It doesn't matter about the restrictions either. You would be surprised what USC can pull in. There are some 3 & 4 star guys that would walk on if invited just to play in Hollywood.

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USC is a name brand in a big city near the beach, but they are located near the hood; UCLA is the one down the street from Hollywood (which is dirty and has no more movie studios anyway), yet they don't recruit well. The only difference between USC and UCLA is the prestige and tradition of the football program (flip the script for BBall), but I'm not so sure that 4* guys would walk on to play there when they could get a scholly 15 miles away at UCLA, or go to Oregon and get national recognition, or go to Arizona and play for RichRod, who we all know has an offense that will perform in the defense-is-optional Pac 12.

He had 200 yards passing and 30 yards rushing in last year's Iron Bowl. Yes he hit two big passing TDs with one against an injured safety who was in position to make the play (and no I'm not taking away what happened on the field but it wasn't an awe inspiring pass if the guy was covered; the play was made because of the defensive player's physical ineptitude, not because of a great pass) but hardly a dominating performance, especially if the best team in school history won by 1 against a team that was, experience-wise and statistically-nowhere near the caliber of this year's edition.

2010 Auburn beat everyone they played in 2010. They wouldn't have beaten any of the other SEC BCSNC teams.

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What do they call Mike Shula ??

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Shula is Shula. Saban is Coach Saban. Stallings is Coach Stallings. Coach Bryant may also be referred to as "The Bear." Hell, Mal Moore (the AD) was never head coach but is still referred to by some as Coach Moore.

The best possible scenario would be playing UK and UT, but not as MSU!

Bitching about which team you have to play on your schedule indicates your lack of confidence in being able to win against quality competition. UF has been the best team in the East overall since the 90s, but during the Zook years and now the last two they've been downright mediocre at best. Tennessee has only been mediocre for the last 5 years or so; before that they were a power as well yet you didn't hear Bama fans complaining about having to play the Vols every year. Some years your schedule works out and sometimes it doesn't. Bama has an easy East schedule for next year, but a year ago we played 6 teams coming off a bye week (I know everyone remembers that fact too, because our fanbase didn't stop bitching about it for the better part of a year!). Generally speaking, trips to the Swamp, Happy Valley and JHS is pretty freaking daunting; this year, not so much. You can't say that any one team is going to remain dominant, there's an ebb and flow to it. Florida was on top of the world two years ago, now where are they?

Then again, I'm sure LSU fans wish Florida was still really good so they could complain about having them as their permanent opponent!

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Well, we don't know if any changes with the constants are going to take place but gaining maybe the best team in the East with the changes is typical. The entire structure is a sham though and results like these occur all too often because of a game nobody cares about outside of Tenn and Alabama.

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The AU-UGA game has actually been going on for longer so it wasn't just the 3rd Sat in Oct game. They also could have moved both AU and UA to the East and moved Vandy to the West and preserved those games, but that would've left 5 of the Big 6 in the same division and LSU with no competition whatsoever, which I'm sure you would've preferred.

UT has always been and will always be top dog in that state, period. They take their football serious in Texas. TAMU may have years where they do better in recruiting and/or on the field, and they may even get a little run where they do better for multiple years, but UT will always come back to the top. This isn't Ohio St/Michigan or UT/OU, or even Bama/AU we're talking about here; these two teams are not evenly matched in any way whatsoever.