All Florida Weekend
Auburn visits Gainesville for what the lizard-creatures are promising is heavy, heavy payback for spoiling their otherwise immaculate season last year. (Can you say Pontiac Game-Changing Performance??)
Alabama travels down to the home of the Jaguars to meet the much-reduced forces of Free Shoes University. (If only this were one of those years when FSU was actually, y'know, good...)
So: What will happen?
Auburn vs Florida:
There is no way on Earth Auburn can win this game. AU is in a downward spiral, with a season already "on the brink" only four games in. Losses to admittedly undefeated and ranked South Florida and a scrappy MSU team (when everything went wrong) have most observers thinking Auburn will be lucky to salvage a winning record this season, given the schedule ahead.
Plus there's the "revenge factor" for Florida. They unexpectedly fell to Auburn in Jordan-Hare last year, and everyone knows that can't happen back-to-back, especially in the Swamp this time.
Except, it already has happened once, and not too terribly long ago.
Anyone remember 1993-94?
Chris Dimino (790 the Zone in Atlanta) called it the "Monkeys fly out of my butt game." He had said if AU beat #1-ranked UF in '94, monkeys would fly out of his butt. Well....!
Nix to Sanders. 36-33. The Streak continued.
Now that's all well and good... it is possible, and all... buuuuuut.....
This year's offense is as young a group as I have ever seen at AU, particularly when Burns is in at QB instead of Cox. To think that such a team could go down to the Swamp, one of (if not THE) most intimdating stadiums in the SEC, and score enough to outpace Florida... Um, no.
But, still... it's somewhat comforting to know that the precedent does exist for such a thing. Sort of....
Alabama vs Florida State
If only this were a really good FSU team meeting the Tide, instead of the wreck they've become in recent years. I mean, they've lost to Clemson three of the last four years, for crying out loud.
I'd love to see the Seminoles-- not a favorite bunch of mine by any stretch of the imagination-- take some scalps from the bammers in J-town. But it won't happen. Alabama, shocked by the discovery that Saban cannot snap his fingers and cause his team to win automatically, will be somewhat relieved this week when they do, in fact, win the game.
A win for bama and a loss for AU. Not my kind of weekend, but I'm pretty sure that's what will happen. Ah, well.
Auburn visits Gainesville for what the lizard-creatures are promising is heavy, heavy payback for spoiling their otherwise immaculate season last year. (Can you say Pontiac Game-Changing Performance??)
Alabama travels down to the home of the Jaguars to meet the much-reduced forces of Free Shoes University. (If only this were one of those years when FSU was actually, y'know, good...)
So: What will happen?
Auburn vs Florida:
There is no way on Earth Auburn can win this game. AU is in a downward spiral, with a season already "on the brink" only four games in. Losses to admittedly undefeated and ranked South Florida and a scrappy MSU team (when everything went wrong) have most observers thinking Auburn will be lucky to salvage a winning record this season, given the schedule ahead.
Plus there's the "revenge factor" for Florida. They unexpectedly fell to Auburn in Jordan-Hare last year, and everyone knows that can't happen back-to-back, especially in the Swamp this time.
Except, it already has happened once, and not too terribly long ago.
Anyone remember 1993-94?
Chris Dimino (790 the Zone in Atlanta) called it the "Monkeys fly out of my butt game." He had said if AU beat #1-ranked UF in '94, monkeys would fly out of his butt. Well....!
Nix to Sanders. 36-33. The Streak continued.
Now that's all well and good... it is possible, and all... buuuuuut.....
This year's offense is as young a group as I have ever seen at AU, particularly when Burns is in at QB instead of Cox. To think that such a team could go down to the Swamp, one of (if not THE) most intimdating stadiums in the SEC, and score enough to outpace Florida... Um, no.
But, still... it's somewhat comforting to know that the precedent does exist for such a thing. Sort of....
Alabama vs Florida State
If only this were a really good FSU team meeting the Tide, instead of the wreck they've become in recent years. I mean, they've lost to Clemson three of the last four years, for crying out loud.
I'd love to see the Seminoles-- not a favorite bunch of mine by any stretch of the imagination-- take some scalps from the bammers in J-town. But it won't happen. Alabama, shocked by the discovery that Saban cannot snap his fingers and cause his team to win automatically, will be somewhat relieved this week when they do, in fact, win the game.
A win for bama and a loss for AU. Not my kind of weekend, but I'm pretty sure that's what will happen. Ah, well.
posted by Van Allen Plexico at 3:30 PM
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