It isn't as if Auburn was like 8-4 or 9-3 this year with some competitive games and 1-2 decent wins. They are a very, very bad team this year and they have been for 4 years now. No amount of "voodoo" excuses the performances we've seen from them. Unless they're putting NyQuil in the opposing teams' gatorade, there's no reason winning comfortably in JH shouldn't be a cakewalk when a team like NMSU can do it.
Somebody sounds like the SEC fan he pretends to hate now.
You are ignoring the history of the rivalry. When I say you don't get it, you prove me right every time you come back and tell me how bad Auburn is. I get it. They are terrible. It doesn't matter in that game. This has been proven over and over for decades. It's just the nature of the game. So, to see if we can wrap this up:
They're a 10-win G5 that got smoked at home by UMass and lost to 8-loss Hawaii who is also playing in the weakest FBS conference. I have respect for Kill but damn, that dude was almost 6 feet under a few years ago. I get Auburn looked past them, but that should've meant a close win, not a blowout loss. This also goes back to my comment on Bama - Auburn's offense is abysmal this year. They can run well enough, but their passing offense is 125th in the nation and their scoring offense was somewhere in the 70s before Saturday.
Every team has struggles against bad teams from time to time. It always happens. You guys have struggled against teams you should have beaten badly. It just is what it is.
I think as an OSU fan I understand historical rivalries as well as anyone. Again, this being an SEC rivalry doesn't make it supernatural. UGA should obliterate Bama not only because of the Iron Bowl we just watched, but the myriad other games this year where Bama looked like a solid but definitely not elite team. I think the Iron Bowl shows a lot about who they are. I never bought into their recent hype train, and I think UGA shuts it down entirely Saturday.
You’re right, we need to rest starters and keep the playbook vanilla and just go ahead and prepare for the first round of the playoffs
When you play at Ohio State and are being paid ungodly amount of NIL money, you'd better fucking play in the Bowl Game unless you are going to the draft. It is a chance for younger, talented guys to show what they have as they go into the offseason, and the flipside - any guys who are thinking of entering the portal have one last chance to showoff for a new team (which will happen IMO).
One last time ... you are the one that is going off on "SEC rivalries." Do you see anywhere in a single post of mine that I said anything about "SEC rivalries?" No, you don't because I didn't. What I did say was the Iron Bowl is a rivalry like no other that I am aware of where the records of the teams simply don't matter. So, drawing the transitive property from NMSU to the Iron Bowl means zero ... nada ... nothing.
This is how I see it. This isn't the Bama of the 00s and Teens, but if anyone thinks they can't beat any team in the country right now, they have been paying attention. They shouldn't beat us and if they do I will be very disappointed.
just as good? Oregon scores 10 points per game more, is # 2 in total offense, 23 in rushing and # 1 in passing while Alabama is 48th in total, 44th in rushing and 57th in passing.
Exactly … my opinion is that Georgia is the #1 team in the NCAA, and they have earned it. Taking a Championship Game for granted and you are outside looking in. Michigan is a 23 point favorite against Iowa, and if we take them for granted they will kill us.
Yes, just as good. You know we are comparing Oregon and UGA, right?
Iowa isn’t capable of killing anyone. They might beat you 13-10 or something like that