Auburn finished the season with a 7-5 record. They started the year 5-0, but went 2-5 down the stretch and lost 5 of their last 6 conference games. They lost their final two games to conference rivals (Georgia and Alabama) and somehow they are invited to play in a New Year's Day bowl.
How the hell does this happen? By Auburn getting an invite to the Outback Bowl, Tennessee will most likely fall down to the Chick-Fil-A Bowl. That leaves the Dawgs, who beat Auburn, had an equal overall record (7-5), and a better conference record (4-4 to 3-5) to play in the Independence Bowl. (I won't even get into the BS that is South Carolina or Kentucky getting to go the Music City Bowl ahead of Georgia).
Instead of a rematch of the 2006 bowl game with a 9-3 Virginia Tech squad, we can now look forward to a game against a 6-6 Texas A&M team. The idea of spending New Year's Eve at the Georgia Dome with 40,000 of my closest friends appears to be gone. I guess the party at my house is on.
I have never had much hate for Auburn, but after this I may begin to share some of Kyle King's disdain for API.
4 comments:
WAR EAGLE! Suck it UGA!!
Four in a row.Auburn is becoming as irrelevant as Tech.
Suck on that!
You know what, we could have beaten UK and it wouldn't have mattered...
We dug our own grave, end of story.
In all honesty, I never thought we'd make it as high as the Chik-fil-A.
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