The Auburn Tigers were last seen racing to a barely contested 14-0 lead against Georgia last Saturday night, then frittering it away and leaving Athens with a 31-24 loss. Evidently, though, a lead isn’t the only thing Auburn’s players can’t hold in Sanford Stadium:
As I sit here in Birmingham International Airport and with an open week in front of the Tigers, much can be looked at from this season.
Yes, it's ok to look back cause next week is the reason Auburn fans bleed orange and blue.
The season has had its ups and downs, [...]
Emotions in Clemson will be running high this Saturday when the Virginia Cavaliers come to town. The intensely loyal Clemson fan base has been waiting 18 years for a shot at the ACC title. On Saturday, the Tigers can punch their ticket to their first ever ACC championship game.
In fact, [...]
The Georgia Bulldogs sit at 6-4 right now and, after a nice come-from-behind win over the Auburn Tigers, the scrappy little team from Athens has to be feeling a bit better about finishing the season strong.
Two teams are left on the slate, one is sitting pretty in the [...]
It's Sanford Stadium, not "Samford Stadium."
He's A.J. Green, not "A.J. Greene." (A.J. Greene is, in fact, an Auburn player.)
The "Dawg" in paragraph three and the "favorite" in paragraph five should have been plural, not singular.
Evidently, the Auburn Tigers are "special" only in the sense of the [...]
Getting to renew the rivalry with the Tigers would take a lot of the sting out of a sub-par season.
Interesting side note: Georgia and Clemson have played their 62 rivalry games in four cities and on eight fields. The Bulldogs and [...]
Games between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Auburn Tigers are not always close---see 2004 and 2007---but, historically, this has been a series hallmarked by tight ballgames, as befits a rivalry as ancient and storied as this one. Of the 113 clashes between these two teams, 49 have [...]
This is the big one. We've played the Plainsmen more times than anyone. We've lost to the Plainsmen more times than anyone. They've sabotaged more of our successful seasons than anyone. (The loss to the Gators in 2002 was a mere speed bump in comparison to the losses to the' [...]
The members of the Missouri defense will tell you that whatever frustration mounts on the field from week to week is better left on the field, so as to not interfere with preparation for the next opponent's offense.
But you still have to wonder how many times the wounds have been licked, in an effort to do [...]
The Deep South’s oldest rivalry renews for the 113th time as the Auburn Tigers travel to Athens to face the Georgia Bulldogs.
The Tigers lead the all-time series 53-51-8, but have lost the last three meetings.
For many years, the game was played off-campus in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park or in [...]
I was feeling moderately all right about this one until Senator Blutarsky reminded me about the turnovers and I was sent into a tailspin by MaconDawg’s exegesis of the chess match between Bobby Fischer and SpongeBob SquarePants X’s and O’s battle between Gus Malzahn and Willie Martinez. The [...]
The comments left after my initial BlogPoll ballot draft made up in quality what they lacked in quantity, so I was persuaded to inch the LSU Tigers ahead of the USC Trojans (hopefully without reigniting any billboard wars over the 2003 national championship!), rank the Auburn [...]
I'll say this for Darvin Ruise : He should be commended for refusing to let Missouri's disturbing loss to Baylor play a role in his recruitment.
The 6'2", 218-pound athlete from Glen St. Mary, Florida, became the 16th member of MU's 2010 recruiting class on Sunday, pledging less than" [...]
Last Saturday, Georgia held its opponent to 55 total yards. Too bad it was Tennessee Tech.
This Saturday, it's back to reality.
The Auburn Tigers come to Athens with a 7-3 record and one of the most innovative offensive systems in college football.
Led by offense coordinator Gus Malzahn, Auburn's offense has sparked [...]
Seven wins was the bar for Auburn head football coach Gene Chizik. Anything less would have been unacceptable. With two games left in the regular season, Chizik has reached that goal. Can his Tigers exceed it against Georgia and Alabama? Is Chizik really an improvement over former head coach Tommy [...]
Hit for hit, drive for drive, this game was one of the toughest games played at Bryant Denny since the 2007 Bama-LSU match up. In the end, Alabama had the strength, perseverance and will to finish the job.
The Bengal Tigers played strong, particularly for the first half. They added an [...]
The Auburn Tigers bombed the Furman Paladins 63-31 in front of a Saturday afternoon Homecoming crowd.
The win was expected, as was the relative ease with which it was achieved.
When you're facing an opponent at a clear disadvantage in terms of talent, there are three things that must be achieved:
1) Avoid injury
2) Allow backups,' [...]
In retrospect, I can think of endless ways in which I could have better spent my Saturday afternoon.
It was the perfect late spring, er, I mean early autumn, day. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. Faurot Field was soaked in mid-afternoon sunshine. Tailgaters littered every crevice of the Missouri' [...]
Both the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Clemson Tigers played sloppy at times, but continued to move one step closer to an ACC Championship game meeting.
Virginia Tech picked up a nice non-conference win over East Carolina, and Duke's bowl march hit a road bump with a loss at North Carolina.
A [...]What must be a morning of not only bruised bodies are bruised hearts of the LSU Tigers after losing to Alabama yesterday...players, coaches, and fans.
While LSU held serve for much of the game, the fourth quarter was where the needle became too heavy, and their backs were broken. Bama proved [...]
Saturday brought exactly what the Tigers needed.
First and foremost, it was a victory. Secondly, it was a large victory, over a significantly overmatched opponent. No one expected Furman to have a chance, but by leading 42-3 at the half, the Tigers made sure there was no chance at this one ever being [...]
The muddled ACC Atlantic may become a little clearer on Saturday night when Division leader Clemson welcomes FSU to Death Valley. The Seminoles have rebounded after some early season stumbles to stay in the Atlantic Division race.
Clemson has been in this situation before with all the marbles to play for, [...]
photo illustration by Samara Pearlstein
The Tigers have effectively released Marcus Thames tonight, sending him off into the thorny wilds of free agency. At the same time they set Matt Treanor free, but we barely got to know him. The [...]
photo illustration by Samara Pearlstein
The Tigers have effectively released Marcus Thames tonight, sending him off into the thorny wilds of free agency. At the same time they set Matt Treanor free, but we barely got to know him. The [...]
photo illustration by Samara Pearlstein
The Tigers have effectively released Marcus Thames tonight, sending him off into the thorny wilds of free agency. At the same time they set Matt Treanor free, but we barely got to know him. The River has been [...]
photo illustration by Samara Pearlstein
The Tigers have effectively released Marcus Thames tonight, sending him off into the thorny wilds of free agency. At the same time they set Matt Treanor free, but we barely got to know him. The River has been [...]
