Okay, Tiger fans—picture this scenario: Our head coach is finishing his third season on the Plains. In the previous year, he had us playing for a championship, thanks in part to a junior college transfer who outperformed most people’s expectations but has left Auburn a year early for the NFL. Auburn has a QB controversy [...]

Arkansas State?  Really?  Arkansas State?   Call us naïve, but we always assumed that when Gus Malzahn left Auburn it would be in a platinum-plated Learjet to become the head coach at a top-shelf BCS-type school.  The situation that has developed this week is a little tougher for us to handle, and for multiple reasons –not [...]

For the Auburn Tigers, the 1980s did not end on Dec. 2 or even Dec. 31, 1989. No, for Auburn football, the decade of the Eighties actually ended on a slick field in Tampa, Florida on January 1, 1990, vs. the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Hall of Fame Bowl
Let’s sit down and watch the game—for the first time in two decades, for some of us—and talk about it.

Was it the work of a sane person? No.
But it was the work of an Alabama fan. And the trees…
… the trees remember…

There are some weeks when it’s not all that fun to be writing a weekly column on Auburn football. This is one of those weeks. We admit it—we were spoiled last season, in our inaugural campaign, as the Tigers won every game (and usually in some sort of spectacular, astounding fashion) and made this task into a joy and a pleasure.
This season? Not so much.

Thirteen-point favorites?! Well, then—clearly the Georgia Bulldogs somehow have become a monster team and are mowing down everyone in their path, and will provide a massive challenge for LSU in Atlanta in a few weeks, right?
Wait, wait—hold on a second. Who did they beat, during this run? Let’s see: Coastal Carolina… Ole Miss… Mississippi State… Vandy… Tennessee… Florida… New Mexico State.
Whooo. Brutal run there, Dawgs.

The question this week is, when the good Admiral brings the Mississippi fleet out of hyperspace and they suddenly appear just outside the Auburn end zone, will Ted Roof have the defensive shield switched on or not? (It’s probably too much to ask that Gus have the Death Star’s planet-buster dish operational as well, given the state of our offense of late.)
What can we say about this epic clash of “Meh?”

What’s the recipe for Auburn getting out of that humid little town with a victory? Play good defense against the run and don’t hurt ourselves. Keep it a low-scoring defensive struggle and then try and steal it at the end. The hardest part will be getting first downs on offense without taking chances, because the LSU defense is waiting for teams to take chances. Getting Blake back at receiver would be huge for this game, as he could provide a real option for taking advantage of play-action passing. (He appeared for a handful of plays against Florida but was a non-factor, and remained questionable as we went to press.)

John and Van sincerely hope that the Auburn Family is not expecting a witty, joke-filled dissertation from this week’s column because, honestly, we’re just not in the mood for that right now. It seems the Hog Hex was back and in full effect last weekend (if only Otis Mounds had been there).  The Tigers were [...]

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The following is for you. All of you.