LSU vs AU

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THE END OF THE ARTICLE IS THE BEST. ARE THEY SCARED OF THEIR LAST THREE OPPONENTS? 12 GAMES MEANS SACRIFICES HAVE TO BE MADE.

WAR EAGLE!

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THE END OF THE ARTICLE IS THE BEST.  ARE THEY SCARED OF THEIR LAST THREE OPPONENTS?  12 GAMES MEANS SACRIFICES HAVE TO BE MADE.

WAR EAGLE!

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Are you scared of lowercase letters?

The point is no season ticket buying fan wants the home games frontloaded. We've got 4 home games against mediocre teams in September as it is. If we don't go to Auburn on the 16th, whatever last minute nobody we're scheduling will be played on that Saturday, so it will be 5 hot, uninspiring games. No thanks. LSU's 2006 schedule is bad enough as it is without all the home games being up front.

[Proud Tiger 4,261]

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THE END OF THE ARTICLE IS THE BEST.  ARE THEY SCARED OF THEIR LAST THREE OPPONENTS?  12 GAMES MEANS SACRIFICES HAVE TO BE MADE.

WAR EAGLE!

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Are you scared of lowercase letters?

The point is no season ticket buying fan wants the home games frontloaded. We've got 4 home games against mediocre teams in September as it is. If we don't go to Auburn on the 16th, whatever last minute nobody we're scheduling will be played on that Saturday, so it will be 5 hot, uninspiring games. No thanks. LSU's 2006 schedule is bad enough as it is without all the home games being up front.

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Our first 5 games in 2005 were at home. It may not have been good for fans but it helped some playere like Cox get some experience before hitting the road.

[Eagle Eye 7]

Personally I would love to play them early in the season. Just sets us up to go to Tempe next year.

(See 2004)

[WarTim 3,456]

You can bet that if it is not "GOOD" for Auburn, it WILL NOT happen.

That is what being the "Home" team is all about.

p.s. You crack me up. Thanks for the laughs.

[DKW 86 7,423]

I love this idea. Guys, our scedule now looks like this.

Date Opponent Location Time/TV

Sept. 2 Washington St. Auburn TBA

Sept. 9 at Mississippi State Starkville, MS TBA

Sept. 16 Temple Auburn TBA

Sept. 23 Tulane (HC) Auburn TBA

Sept. 30 at South Carolina Columbia, SC TBA

Oct. 7 Arkansas Auburn TBA

Oct. 14 Florida Auburn TBA

Oct. 21 LSU Auburn TBA

Oct. 28 at Ole Miss Oxford, MS TBA

Nov. 11 Georgia Auburn TBA

Nov. 18 at Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. TBA

Dec. 2 SEC Champ game Atlanta, GA TBA

That is right. We play and back to back. Move the game and I may start having some of the Kool-Aid that TSN is having.

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I love this idea. Guys, our scedule now looks like this.

Date Opponent Location Time/TV

Sept. 2 Washington St. Auburn TBA

Sept. 9 at Mississippi State Starkville, MS TBA

Sept. 16 Temple Auburn TBA

Sept. 23 Tulane (HC) Auburn TBA

Sept. 30 at South Carolina Columbia, SC TBA

Oct. 7 Arkansas Auburn TBA

Oct. 14 Florida Auburn TBA

Oct. 21 LSU Auburn TBA

Oct. 28 at Ole Miss Oxford, MS TBA

Nov. 11 Georgia Auburn TBA

Nov. 18 at Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. TBA

Dec. 2 SEC Champ game Atlanta, GA TBA

That is right. We play and back to back. Move the game and I may start having some of the Kool-Aid that TSN is having.

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That could have its major advantages, will that mean the temple game would be moved to the 21? Could be just the break we need to get our legs back before UGA and UAT.

[ValleyTiger 2,894]

2006 Schedule(Pending approval of the LSU date change)

Sept. 2 WSU

Sept. 9 MSU

Sept. 16 LSU

Sept. 23 Temple

Sept. 30 So. Carolina

Oct. 7 Arkansas

Oct. 14 Florida

Oct. 21 Tulane

Oct. 28 Ole Miss

Nov. 4 Ark. St.

Nov. 11 UGA

Nov. 18 Bama

Dec. 2 SEC Champ.

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Temple could still be replaced

By PHILLIP MARSHALL

Times Sports Staff pmarsh9485@msn.com

AUBURN - Pending approval by the Southeastern Conference, Auburn will play LSU at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Sept. 16 next football season instead of the originally scheduled date of Oct. 21. That move will cause reshuffling throughout Auburn's nonconference schedule.

Auburn plays Washington State, scheduled as the opener last August, on Sept. 2 at Jordan-Hare Stadium. The tentative schedule includes games against Temple on Sept. 23, Tulane on Oct. 21 and Arkansas State on Nov. 4. Arkansas State replaces Villanova, which was dropped to make room for Washington State. The moves created a conflict for Temple and could result in the Owls being replaced by another team.

Moving the LSU game will alleviate what would have been a tough stretch late in Auburn's schedule. Without the move, Auburn would have faced consecutive games at South Carolina, at home against Arkansas, Florida and LSU and at Ole Miss.

Auburn and LSU have been delayed in finalizing their schedules at least partly because Tulane had both teams scheduled for Sept. 23.

Mark Richard, senior associate athletics director, said Auburn is working to finalize the schedule.

"We're hoping, in the next couple of weeks, to have it done," Richard said. "We are working with the SEC, ESPN and other schools that would be affected."

The NCAA decided last spring that Division I-A teams could play 12 games per season. It would not, however, agree to starting the season a week earlier. As a result, Auburn will play 12 games without an open date next season, including games against the other five SEC teams that played in bowls at the end of the 2005 season. Its only open date will come on Nov. 25, the week before the SEC Championship Game.

Here is the tentative schedule:

Sept. 2 Washington State; Sept. 9 at Mississippi State; Sept. 16 LSU; Sept. 23 Temple; Sept. 30 at South Carolina; Oct. 7 Arkansas; Oct. 14 Florida; Oct. 21 Tulane; Oct. 28 at Ole Miss; Nov. 4 Arkansas State; Nov. 11 Georgia; Nov. 18 at Alabama.

Dan Radakovich, LSU's associate athletic director, told The Advocate in Baton Rouge, that he and Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs first discussed the idea last October. He said he was interested in what would be best for LSU, not in helping Auburn adjust its schedule.

"I don't know that this helps Auburn, if it does at all," Radakovich said. "It was good for us, good for LSU, that we do this. That's the way we looked at it."

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The sAints will be playing games in BR until the Superdome is ready (November?). So, moving an early season home game out to later in the schedule helps the turf at Tiger Stadium - which is another factor LSU had to consider. Games on five consecutive Saturdays was tough on J-H's field this year - LSU would have had five college games and at least two NFL games in a 30-day period.