Alabama Auburn Rivalry, A Surprising Stats Jenga Winner

Alabama Auburn Rivalry, A Surprising Stats Jenga Winner

November 17, 2014

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

November 13, 2014

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, Before It’s Time to Throw Them Out

November 10, 2014

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?

November 9, 2014

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 Before We Throw Them Out

November 6, 2014

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

College Football Playoff: A Tiger Roams Rematch City

November 3, 2014

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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SEC West, When a Single Elimination Game Eliminates Two

SEC West, When a Single Elimination Game Eliminates Two

November 2, 2014

Photo: Auburn wide receiver Sammie Coates catches a second-quarter touchdown pass in front of Ole Miss defensive back Cody Prewitt at VaughtÐHemingway Stadium in Oxford Miss., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. (Mark Almond) When a Single Elimination Game Eliminates Two SEC West Championship Quest Leading up to the biggest battle in the SEC West, two one-loss teams, No. 3 Auburn and No. 4 Ole Miss pushed and challenged each other in ways neither endured up to this point in their eleven week season. With the historical announcement Tuesday evening and the first ever College Football Playoff Rankings  released by a twelve member
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College Football Playoff Rankings, Biggest Moves Biggest Consequences

College Football Playoff Rankings, Biggest Moves Biggest Consequences

October 31, 2014

Photo: Oregon students, Harrison Tingler, and Grant Otter, center, sold more than 185 of their “We Want Bama” t-shirts last year. credit: WeWantBamaDailyEmerald com. College Football Playoff Rankings, Biggest Moves Biggest Consequences The jury is in.  The most powerful twelve men and women in college football released the first ever College Football Playoff Rankings.  Comparing the new College Football Playoff Rankings to the AP, six of the 25 teams ranking was unchanged, seven teams gained or lost one position, and four moved plus or minus two places, so 68% of the new college football rankings is practically the same as the AP.  Which teams had
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Alabama LSU 2014: LSU Giveth, But Do They Also Taketh Away?

Alabama LSU 2014: LSU Giveth, But Do They Also Taketh Away?

October 27, 2014

LSU Giveth, But Do They Also Taketh Away? Alabama LSU 2014 Every Bama fan has endured this greeting on Monday morning following a big Tide victory. A co-worker waits for them at the office door, shaking their head, “Luck!” they say with a forlorn half- grin, “Alabama is the luckiest dang team on earth!”  That’s when the Alabama faithful select one of the following phrases to retort their no-doubt jealous frienemies, “I’d rather be lucky than good any day,” or “The harder I work the luckier I get.”  If the office is large enough and additional taunting occurs, these phrases
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Alabama Auburn Rivalry Mushrooming Across the Country

Alabama Auburn Rivalry Mushrooming Across the Country

October 27, 2014

Alabama Auburn Rivalry Mushrooming Across the Country For the first time in college football history, the right to compete in the national championship game will be determined by a four-team playoff bracket scribed by teams selected by the 13-member (now 12) College Football Playoff Selection Committee. Also for the first time in college football history, the path to that glory goes through the Egg Bowl, the in-state rivalry in Mississippi. Since the winner of the SEC Championship in the Georgia Dome on December 6, will likely be selected by the Playoff Committee to play in the four-team playoff, the winner of the SEC West
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