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One of the things I love about the new model is that the first four games are played at the higher ranked team's home stadium. This will educe a lot travel costs for some fans. I also greatly hope I see the day that Alabama or Georgia has to travel to Michigan or Ohio or some other cold venue in the middle of winter. (Yes, I realize that could just as easily happen to Auburn.)

That decision to give the Alabama quarterback unlimited time to throw the ball on that 4th and 31 play is about as close as it comes to a textbook example of a single play meriting a coaching personnel change.

Yes -- against Cal. Uniform decisions don't trigger wins or losses.

KJ wearing black tuxedo and red tie. Hmmm.

Does anybody know what the latest is on the apparel contract stuff? I thought our contract with Under Armour expired many months ago.

40 years ago, I had a shirt that read "My two favorite teams are Auburn and whomever is playing Alabama". That still holds true. Michigan deserves to get punished -- by the NCAA. But that is a completely separate matter from what should happen in the playoffs. I hope Michigan finds a way to curb stomp Alabama.

I like how there is music all through the video, except for the Kick Six. Rightly so, that one play which is the greatest in the history of college football, can stand on its own!

He was here only one year, but David Gibbs as Defensive Coordinator. "Honk if you sacked Brodie"

Welcome to the forum! Enjoy the game. I'm an Auburn alum ('94) that now lives in Iowa. Unfortunately, I haven't been down to Auburn in two decades, so I can't tell you much. Hopefully some other people will reply to you. Have a great time and if Auburn wins, be sure to head to Toomer's Corner before leaving town. -Bryan

If anybody thinks we just needed a different coach to make this team into a good team, they aren't really following our team's drop off in talent over the last 5-6 years. I think Hugh Freeze will turn this team around, but it will take time. Our next recruiting class is ranking 14th. But the year after that is currently ranked 4th! Keep recruiting!

I just don't see how Payton Thorne can be the QB anymore. There were too many times on Saturday where he looked terrified. In hindsight, it seems clear to me that there is a reason why he wasn't going to be the starter at Michigan State and decided to transfer. I like Robbie, but we need him at wide receiver and to let him run jet sweeps. If we want to let him continue to take snaps on select plays, then fine. Holden has to be the guy going forward, though. We need to start Holden on Saturday and pray that our O-Line can block for him.

Auburn fans are going to have to come to grips with the fact that the problem is our lack of recruiting in the last several years. No coach could right this ship in a handful of games -- because the problem isn't a coaching problem. We have no 5 stars on a team playing in a league where there are 5 stars everywhere. And we haven't had a decent offensive line in years. I like Gus, but he stopped recruiting offensive linemen and Harsin didn't recruit anybody. Hugh Freeze realizes how bad our talent situation is but it is going to take time. His stop-gap solution of last year's transfer portal helped the situation, but it was just an effort to stop the hemorrhaging. It is going to take serious recruiting to fix this problem. We have no QB right now, and yet we had a 5 star legacy QB who had to leave our school that he has loved for his entire life because he realized that if he stayed here it would destroy his NFL potential because he was running for his life on every freaking play! What our previous coaches have done to our offensive line should be considered a criminal act. RECRUIT! RECRUIT! RECRUIT!

Faulk to Auburn!

Question: do portal transfers contribute to our recruiting rankings?

There used to be talk from many places about how the season was getting too long.That was back when you might only play 11 games plus a bowl game. I guess in this world of NIL, we no longer care to believe these are student athletes. We now play 12 regular games, possibly a conference championship game, and possibly 4 playoff games -- a 17 game season! I'd also support a full 16 team playoff, where every game but the championship is played at the higher ranked team's home stadium. Ditch all bowl games, but also ditch the conference championship games, which don't really matter any longer. Finally, consider going back to 11 or even 10 regular season games.