Posts Tagged ‘chris todd’

The Tigers killed the Paladins, up next Dawgs!

By: Kevin Strickland

The Auburn Tigers bombed the Furman Paladins 63-31 in front of a Saturday afternoon Homecoming crowd.

The win was expected as was the relative ease with which it was achieved.

When you’re facing an opponent at a clear disadvantage in terms of talent, there are three things that must be achieved:

1) Avoid injury

2) Allow backups and rarely used players to gain experience; and

3) Learn something about your team

By that measure, Auburn’s win over the Paladins was a success.

Lets put Neil in, he can't be any worse. Right?...Right?!?

By: Kevin Strickland

In the aftermath of another abysmal, soul-wrecking performance, the now 5-3 Auburn Tigers are searching for silver linings in some very dark clouds.

Lets get this out of the way. There is almost nothing positive to take from the 31-10 thrashing delivered by LSU Saturday night. Search if you will, but there are no silver linings. There are no bronze linings. There are no linings of any color, only clouds. Menacing clouds.

Good Morning Football: Auburn vs. the Piggies

By: Kevin Strickland

Will tomorrow’s early morning start be a wake-up call for the resurgent Auburn Tigers or will the Arkansas Razorbacks hit the snooze button on another SEC season?

All signs point to a high noon (well high elevenish at least) wild SEC West shootout. When the dust clears in the streets of Fayetteville tomorrow afternoon, one gunslinger will put a sixth notch on his pistol while the other crumples to a fatal 0-3 league sprawl.

By: Kevin Strickland

What if Heisman campaigns were fast-food franchises? Who’d have the best fries? Who would serve the frostiest shake?

Let’s take a look at a few of the front-runners.

Tim Tebow = McDonald’s

When you say fast food, your mind immediately thinks McDonald’s. Try it. Fill in the following: (_blank_) hamburgers. How many of you said McDonald’s? That’s right.

Now do the same thing with the following: Heisman Trophy winner (_blank_). Raise your hand if Florida’s Tim Tebow filled the blank. Yes, even you in the back, the Georgia fan. Put your hand all the way up.

Auburn and it's fans riding high at 5-0

By: Kevin Strickland

The Auburn Tigers knocked off the Tennessee Volunteers 26-22 on Saturday night in Knoxville, surviving a 16-point Volunteer fourth quarter. While the Tigers answered a number of nagging questions in Rocky Top, others persist.

First the good news.

Auburn is 5-0. With a game against Furman still to come, the Tigers are all but assured a bowl game, which at the beginning of the season was considered a reasonable goal for 2009. Given the current state of the SEC, expectations for an upper tier bowl are now not unreasonable.

Still no love for the 4-0 Auburn Tigers

By: Kevin Strickland

The Auburn Tigers out-punched the Ball State Cardinals 54-30 Saturday night to move to 4-0 on the season. If history is any indicator, the hot start bodes well for Tiger fortunes.

Only 27 teams in Auburn history have started a season 4-0. Eight of those occurred after 1974.

Of the eight teams in the last 35 years that started 4-0, only two failed to win at least ten games. The 1994 Tigers reeled off nine before a closing with a tie and a loss. Auburn started 2000 with five consecutive wins before fading to 4-4 down the stretch.

It could get ugly...

By: Kevin Strickland

Due to the potential for excessive violence and simulated sacrificial slaughter, network censors mandated a 6 p.m. kickoff for Saturday’s showdown between Auburn and Ball State. Despite the late start, the game will likely carry a parental warning. Cover your eyes, kids. What the Tigers do to the Cardinals won’t be for the squeamish.

Predicting the outcome of an upcoming game normally takes a bit of research, particularly early in the season.  For that reason, predictions normally come on Thursday, giving a few days to digest the events of the week that just transpired.

By: Kaos

Auburn head coach Gene Chizik has been around the game long enough to know the stakes. He knows that his hiring was not popular among Auburn fans. He understands that the key to Auburn’s future success lies in recruiting. He recognizes that in order to quell the fan unease and to help build recruiting momentum, his first Auburn team has to, at the very least, show improvement.

When Chizik announced last week that Chris Todd had earned the role as Auburn’s starting quarterback he had to know that the decision would have detractors.