War Eagle, everybody! It’s homecoming week on the Plains. Auburn takes on the Samford Bulldogs, in a game expected to be a tuneup for the Iron Bowl. I’d warn Auburn folks about taking the Bulldogs lightly. I watched quite a bit of their game against the Chattanooga Moccasins on Auburn’s bye Saturday. There were no Continue Story…
As the final seconds ticked off the clock in Jordan-Hare Stadium, the unbridled joy of the moment came cascading down onto Pat Dye Field. The Auburn Tigers had just defeated their oldest rival 49-31 and wrapped up the SEC West Division Championship. All the emotions left over from the debacle of 2008 as well as the 0-4 record Continue Story…
Gary Pinkel Head Football Coach @ Missouri What was he thinking? After years of promoting the “Arrive Alive” campaign in Missouri, Pinkel, the Head football coach at the University of Missouri, was arrested Wednesday night around 10 pm, get this, forDriving While Intoxicated! Pinkel has been an advocate for safe driving, particularly for motorcycle riders. He Continue Story…
Auburn punter Steven Clark has been named one of 10 semifinalists for the Ray Guy Award, the award honors the nation’s best punter in college football. A national voting body of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) coaches, sports information directors, national media and former Ray Guy Award winners will decide the three award finalists, who will Continue Story…
On November 13, 1971, two undefeated SEC teams met on a crisp cool autumn day with SEC and national championship hopes on the line. Seventh ranked Georgia was a three point favorite over No. 5 Auburn. The Tigers were cast as the underdog because the Bulldogs had the SEC’s best defense having only surrendered four Continue Story…
War Eagle, everybody. It’s time now for the Acid Reign report on Auburn’s 45-7 blowout loss to the Georgia Bulldogs. It was as bad an Auburn loss as I have ever witnessed. As the game wore on, Auburn was manhandled in every phase. I kept looking for Auburn to fight back, but it never happened. In Continue Story…
If you ever took a statistics course, you remember that one of it’s core modeling techniques is regression analysis, which simply put, is measuring the change between your one dependent variable–say the Auburn Tiger football team–and the changes you can observe and measure when it’s subjected to a few independent variables–say coaching, player talent and game execution, being Continue Story…
How did it happen? When did it get away? While basking in the glow of seven wins in nine years over Alabama, the Georgia rivalry has become a horror show for the Auburn football program. With Saturday’s humiliating beat down in Athens, Auburn has now lost five of its last six games to its second Continue Story…
