By: Kevin Strickland
The Auburn Tigers reached into their Halloween bag on Saturday afternoon and served up a heaping helping of tricks to the Ole Miss Rebels, knocking out the once and no time in the future number four team in the country 33-20.
Halloween was a fitting time for the Tigers to rise from the grave where they’d been planted after three straight abysmal performances and return to their previous slashing gory, err, glory.
The Ole Miss Rebels made the haunting day trek to Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium with the same youthful recklessness that spurs on teens in any typical slasher film to revisit the scene of previous carnage.
Why not go have a fun-filled romp at Camp Crystal Lake? Go ahead and pull on the mask and go door-to-door in Haddonfield on Halloween. Trip on over to Jordan-Hare. You don’t really believe the stories, do you?
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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.
If there’s any solace at all to be wrung from the shockingly bad display, it would be that career backup quarterback Neil Caudle came off the bench when the outcome was decided, played with enthusiasm and reckless abandon and made plays that neither starter Chris Todd or designated “wildcat” Kodi Burns have shown any recent capability of making.
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Will "The Hat" leave Chizik blue? One reporter thinks so.
By: Kevin Strickland
How the Auburn Tigers fare in Baton Rouge on Saturday night will depend on which Tiger offensive personality decides to show up.
Will the coldly confident executioners who gunned down West Virginia with relentless precision swagger in or will the frigid and insecure victims who failed to perform against Kentucky and Arkansas stumble out of the gate?
Unfortunately for Auburn fans, the most likely personality to appear is the latter. The defensive issues that plagued Auburn in two losses are unlikely to be significantly improved in a single week of practice.
Auburn’s crisis of identity on offense highlights the fragility of its early success. If the Tigers couldn’t regain the magic at home, coming off a frustrating loss against a weakened opponent it is too much to ask for it to recapture its strut at night in Baton Rouge?
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Lets hope Auburn doesn't have a bad Gene
By: Kevin Strickland
If you were one of the ones two weeks ago demanding apologies from anyone who had the audacity to doubt new Auburn head coach Gene Chizik, how do you like your crow?
If you were one of the ones penning sonnets to the genius of new Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, it’s time to start singing a different tune.
If you were one of the ones marveling at the transformation of Auburn quarterback Chris Todd, further examination is now due.
Don’t feel alone, nearly every observer of Auburn football got caught up to a degree in the blistering offensive pace of the 5-0 start. Glaring defensive deficiencies were overlooked, the relative level of competition was ignored.
It was just too easy to pick up stones and hurl them at former head coach Tommy Tuberville for his 2008 failures while basking in the faux glow of a quick start to 2009.
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