Hypothetical Question

[rebdawg 5]

Cam Newton won the Heisman and Dyer looks to be a strong candidate for a future Heisman. If Mike wins it does that make Auburn's 2009 recruiting class the best in college football history? Has their ever been another recruiting class to yield two Heisman winners?

[OldNewby 27]

Make that Auburn's 2010 recruiting class. If Mike Dyer wins the Heisman one day in the future, he and Cam both arrived in 2010.

[Jonesy 1]

I think Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart were in the same recruiting class.

[Justin5 20]

Or Miami's 1999 or 2001 class.

Bush and Leinart werent the same class.

[Jonesy 1]

Or Miami's 1999 or 2000 class.

Bush and Leinart werent the same class.

Thanks. Wasn't sure, but figured it was possible since they graduated the same year.

[mcgufcm 4,109]

Bush left early, and Leinart redshirted. I think they were two years apart as recruits... could be wrong about that.

[Duder 243]

Bush left early, and Leinart redshirted. I think they were two years apart as recruits... could be wrong about that.

No, you're dead-on. Leinart redshirted, Bush left early.

[AUFAN34 0]

I remember the start of 2003 season, the media was very high on Auburn. Matt Leinart and USC came into Jordan-Hare and whipped some tail. We went to the Music City Bowl that year.

[Justin5 20]

I remember the start of 2003 season, the media was very high on Auburn. Matt Leinart and USC came into Jordan-Hare and whipped some tail. We went to the Music City Bowl that year.

Most depressing games I've witnessed in person.

1. Auburn at GT 2003

2. Arky at Auburn 2006

3. UGA at Auburn 2006

4. USC at Auburn 2003

5. Alabama at Auburn 2001 (this is only this low down because I was just then becoming a real Auburn fan. I took the other losses waaay harder, as each of them cost us a shot at a MNC. GT is still #1 though.

[Tigermike 3,667]

I think it was Terry Bowden's last year. We went to Starkville and both teams received personal foul penalties before they ever got on the field. MSU kicked off AU fumbled and MSU picked it up and ran it in for a TD. Things didn't get much better as the game went on.

[mcgufcm 4,109]

Most disappointing loses? It would take a while to come up with that list. 2001 Iron Bowl definitely on it. That was the worst experience I've ever had in Jordan-Hare. By far. Add in the fact that we would've won the West by winning that game (regardless of what happened in Baton Rouge the next week)... that was more than disappointing.

The 1994 tie-loss combo to close the season... I think I was equally devastated by both.

The 1988 Earthquake Game in Baton Rouge. I really hate that place.

Maybe the 2003 USC game is on the list. So much talent on that team. The "tribute" to Jim before the game. The way it all went down. That probably makes it.

Gross. This thread is off-topic now.

How GREAT was that recruiting class last year!?!

[outoftowntiger 0]

Left off AU/GA 2002. Gross. You could see if coming and there was nothing we could do....

[Justin5 20]

Left off AU/GA 2002. Gross. You could see if coming and there was nothing we could do....

Yup. Totally forgot about that one. Probably on purpose.

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LOVE THESE LAST TWO RECRUITING CLASSES!!

[aucanucktiger 1,865]

Well back on topic, Blanchard & Davis were in the same class @ West Point & each won a Heisman (below from SI)

Mr. Inside, Mr. Outside

In the history of the Heisman Trophy, no two players are as inextricably linked as 1945 winner Felix "Doc" Blanchard and '46 honoree Glenn Davis. Together they led Army to a three-year record of 27-0-1 and two national titles.

Memorably nicknamed Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside by the New York Sun, South Carolina-born Blanchard was the powerful fullback trampling defenders, Californian Davis the lithe halfback outrunning everyone-though it was well known that Mr. Outside could just as easily go between the tackles and Mr. Inside could deftly sweep around end. They formed an overwhelming backfield duo, scoring 97 touchdowns.

They also became a national phenomenon, landing on the cover of Time magazine in 1945 with the caption "Junior Davis & Doc Blanchard: They Make Army's T Boil." Sportswriters debated who was the better athlete: Davis, who rushed for 2,957 yards, earned varsity letters in baseball, basketball and track (and later dated starlet Elizabeth Taylor); or Blanchard, who, at 6 feet, 208 pounds, had amazing speed (10 seconds in the 100-yard dash) and could punt, catch and block as well as he could run. He also threw the shot more than 50 feet. They captured the imagination of friend and foe alike. "I've just seen Superman in the flesh," Notre Dame coach Ed McKeever said in 1944. "He wears number 35 and goes by the name of Blanchard." The New York Times praised Davis as "the best halfback football has produced in modern times."

Army went 9-0 their first season together. The following year, Blanchard exploded for 718 yards and 19 touchdowns. The 1945 Army-Navy game was a classic exhibition of Blanchard's talents: Before 102,000 fans, including President Truman, Blanchard scored three times, once on a 46-yard interception return, to lead a 32-13 victory. Describing one defender who tried to stop him, author Tim Cohane later wrote, "Doc ran through him as if he were a paper bag."

The performance helped make Blanchard the first junior to win the Heisman. He recalls making the trip from West Point by himself, dutifully following orders to "stay on the river until you get to New York." The runner-up was Davis, who had also finished second to Ohio State's Les Horvath in '44. But that didn't diminish Davis's pleasure for his teammate. "I was happy for him," he says, "and we're still great friends."

While a knee injury forced Blanchard to miss two games in 1946, Davis was at his best. Time wrote he had "a special kind of speed that is all his own. After a brief show of hippiness, enough to get around the end, he simply leans forward and sprouts wings." That's how it must have seemed to Michigan that season. During Army's victory over the Wolverines, Davis scored one touchdown on a 58- yard run and threw for a second. His game stats: 105 yards rushing and 168 yards on 7-for-8 passing.

A 0-0 tie against Notre Dame a few weeks later was the only blemish on the otherwise perfect Blanchard-Davis era. But Davis's career rushing average of 8.26 yards per carry remains an NCAA record. And he still holds Army's mark for most touchdowns, 59. He was also the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year in '46, beating out Joe Louis and Ben Hogan. More important, Davis finally won a Heisman of his own.

After graduation, both men served in the military-Davis in Korea before returning to play pro football with the Rams, Blanchard with the Air Force until 1971, when he retired a colonel. Both men also gave their Heisman trophies to their high schools: Blanchard's went to St. Stanislaus Prep in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and Davis's to Bonita High in La Verne, Calif. But Davis jokes he still has one in the family: After his wife of 43 years died in 1995, he met and married Yvonne Ameche, the widow of Wisconsin's 1954 winner Alan Ameche.

"We had a great football team," Davis says of his Army days. "It's too bad they didn't have a Heisman for each player."

Too bad, indeed, except for the one player who already had one.

[AUFAN34 0]

I remember the start of 2003 season, the media was very high on Auburn. Matt Leinart and USC came into Jordan-Hare and whipped some tail. We went to the Music City Bowl that year.

I spent that summer in Montgomery/Auburn. Every magazine Iread was so high on us. i was thinking this is our year. Icame back here to NC because of college, I was so hyped for that game, then we played so bad. Iwas down for days.

[AUFAN34 0]

LOLi just replied to my own post. My bad. Using a PS3 as my Internet source, and the controller to post.

[jaredm2012 0]

LOLi just replied to my own post. My bad. Using a PS3 as my Internet source, and the controller to post.

[rebdawg 5]

Just curious. How in the world did a post about last year's class possibly being the best in history turn into a lamentation of Auburn's most disappointing games? Stop. Roses. Smell.

[AUFAN34 0]

Good call. Rewind.