Monthly Archives November 2014

Alabama Auburn Game 2014, Top Ten Ways Auburn Can Win

Alabama Auburn Game 2014 Top Ten Ways Auburn Can Win The Iron Bowl   Alabama is favored to win this year’s Iron Bowl, so what?  Isn’t Alabama always favored to win every game they play?  At least they have in recent memory.  But last checked, they do lose some of them.  There are spectacular matchups in this Alabama Auburn game 2014 that will test Auburn’s biggest superstars, like the SEC’s No. 1 pass defender, Auburn’s Jonathan Jones facing the No. 4 passing offense of Alabama Quarterback Blake Sims and the SEC’s No. 1 running back, Cameron Artis-Payne being defended by the SEC’s No.
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Iron Bowl 2014 Tide to Playoff or Tiger Spoiler

Iron Bowl 2014 Tide to Playoff or Tiger Spoiler   In a pre Iron Bowl 2014 press conference, Alabama head football Coach Nick Saban addressed the atmosphere of this rivalry.   “I really can’t compare this game to anything else. The energy level is so different.”   The winner of the past five Iron Bowl games went on to play for the BCS National Championship.  Playing for a national championship is not the ultimate goal in college football.  The ultimate goal is winning it.  In 2013 Auburn played for the title and came away empty leaving a Rose Bowl Stadium in
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Iron Bowl 2014 The Yin and Yang of College Football

Iron Bowl 2014 The Yin and Yang of College Football Alabama Auburn Rivalry What happens when a fast-paced, hurry up no huddle, high-scoring offense meets a stop the rush, stop the pass, push the line of scrimmage top-ranked defense?  The nation will find out, 6:45P, Saturday, November 29, when the SEC’s No. 1 ranked and playoff bound Alabama Crimson Tide faces off with the nothing to lose, dream-spoiler and bragging rights grabber No. 14 Auburn Tigers. Alabama is number one in the SEC in defending the running game. Auburn is number one in the SEC in rushing offense. The Yin and
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Alabama Auburn 2014 Fantasy Iron Bowl

Alabama Auburn 2014 Fantasy Iron Bowl Will The Score Be Close? Like no other rivalry game in college football, The Iron Bowl captures the attention of a national audience.  Why?  Many reasons, not the least of which is that for the last five years the winner of the Iron Bowl played in the BCS National Championship game.  Once again the Nation’s eyes are locked onto the SEC West, the toughest division in the best conference in college football to see if Number One Alabama will advance to the SEC Championship game and on to the first ever, four-team playoff, or not. 
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Alabama Auburn Rivalry, A Surprising Stats Jenga Winner

Alabama Auburn Rivalry A Surprising Stats Jenga Winner The meaningful stats leading up to the Alabama Auburn Rivalry Iron Bowl are in the history books, less two cupcake games used as a week to rest the starters, Alabama vs Western Carolina and Auburn vs Samford.  Auburn and Alabama looked remarkably similar in the statistics we tracked the last couple of months and the Jenga has gone back and forth between the two teams.  This week Alabama owns the “Eye Test” after two marquis wins in two weeks, defeating LSU in Baton Rouge, 20 – 13 in another epic defensive battle that required overtime for the Tide
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College Football Rankings, The Reality Is a Resume Can Be Padded

College Football Rankings, The Reality Is a Resume Can Be Padded If your team is in “the hunt” you probably made sure dinner was over and the plates cleared off the table Tuesday evening in time to gather the fam around the flat screen for ESPN’s overly dramatized version of Survivor otherwise known as the College Football Rankings.  Act three opened just as one and two with theatrical music and a gripping visual montage of the empty board room where the committee meets, their water glasses filled, bowls of hard candy carefully placed and ends with the backs of the heads of
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Alabama Auburn Rivalry, Before It’s Time to Throw Them Out

Alabama Auburn Rivalry Stats, Before It’s Time to Throw Them Out You’ve heard this before, when it comes to rivalry games, you can throw out the stats. Predicting outcomes of college football games is hard to do, but predicting rivalry games, well, they’re nearly unpredictable. Why? Emotion. These teams are normally located close to each other, often the same state, players and fan-bases have a history and they know each other. Both teams practice with greater intensity, personal goals and a few vendettas. Normally played later in the season if not the last game, so by the time the rivalry games are
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Auburn Football: Is it Time to Rely on Themselves Not Fourth Quarter Luck?

Auburn Football Is it Time to Rely on Themselves Not Fourth Quarter Luck The Team of Destiny, Luck and Fortune. Once upon a time, in a land ruled by orange and blue Tigers, there lived a determined head football Coach, Gus Malzahn.  Gus was on a mission to save the land from pestilence also known as losing football games and drought also known as Auburn football not winning games.  Smart and strong, Coach Malzahn knew if he could get his team to buy in to his hurry-up-no-huddle system, and that the harder they would work, the luckier they would get.  And
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Alabama Auburn Game 2014 Before We Throw Them Out

Alabama Auburn Game 2014 Three More Meters Before We Throw Them Out It’s often said when it comes to predicting outcomes of college football rivalry games, you can throw out the statistics of the season leading up to the big game day.  Both head coaches have the game “circled,” both teams’ players spend more time viewing film and practices are approached with a greater intensity with more purpose.  The emotion of a big rivalry game in college football is best described as indescribable – you have to experience it to understand it.  If you don’t believe that the outcome of rivalry games can fly in the face of
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College Football Playoff: A Tiger Roams Rematch City

A Tiger Roams Rematch City College Football Playoff This Tiger walked into a bar and sitting at the first three barstools was an Indian, a Duck and a Bulldog. The bartender who saw the Tiger darken the door, slowly placed the glass he was drying down on the bar, backed up and said, “You’re here again?”  The Tiger stared back at the bartender for a moment, got a big grin on his face, then turned away and walked past the other three where he sat quietly at the opposite end of the bar. Mississippi State, Florida State, and Oregon are three teams who played Auburn
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