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Iron Bowl Pushed To Evening Start

By Jay Coulter
jccoulter@gmail.com

Here’s a sure sign your season hasn’t gone as planned: CBS passed on the Iron Bowl in favor of Tennessee at Kentucky. Who could have predicted that in August? The Alabama game will be televised by ESPN and will start at 7 p.m. Central on November 24th.

The Tigers are 3-1 on the World Wide Leader this year. It’s likely that both teams will enter the contest with identical 7-4 records. Can you blame CBS?

Tommy Tuberville seemed agitated when asked after the Georgia game whether or not talk of his possible move to Texas A&M had an effect on the outcome.

"It wasn't a distraction last week and it won't be this week," Tuberville said. "The players don't talk about it. The coaches haven't talked about it. That's all media talk. Our coaches and players could care less what the media thinks. That's their own agenda. It's not ours."

I guess that begs the question, then what was the problem?

There’s a new blog that cranked up over the weekend that is run by a couple of Auburn brothers. I want to give it a plug because it looks like a real winner.

Chris and Steven Register have started College Sports Happy Hour.com. It’s a blog that covers all of college football and of course, Auburn. Check it out and bookmark it.

I had a chance last week to listen to Mark Murphy of Inside the Auburn Tigers speak at the Columbus (GA) Auburn Club meeting. First off, the guy is an Auburn encyclopedia. His knowledge of Auburn athletics is unbelievable.

He told me a hilarious story that I want to share with you. The producer from The Paul Finebaum Show recently called him and asked him to be a guest. Murphy politely declined.

The producer continued to press Murphy saying, "this is the most popular radio show in the state and we’re giving you a chance to be on."

To which Murphy replied: "Jerry Springer is the most popular television talk show in the country and I’m not planning on being a guest there either."

Priceless.

Bowl talk should start heating up this week. Where Auburn will land is anyone’s guess. CBS Sportsline.com projects the Tigers will play Missouri in the Cotton Bowl on January 1st. Don’t everyone rush out and buy tickets all at once.

I think that prediction is way off. First off, neither Auburn nor the Cotton Bowl wants a return visit for the Tigers this quickly. Talk about a real snore. You just thought last year’s Nebraska contest was boring.

Personally, I hope Auburn lands in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl. I love that game. If you’re not headed to Florida on New Year’s or playing in a BCS game, I’d just assume face off against the ACC in Atlanta. Let’s hope they take a look at Auburn.

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Chick-Fil-A

The Chic-Fil-A is a lot of fun and it is a good bowl for Auburn fans to travel to.  I would much prefer us going to this bowl than the Cotton Bowl.

WAR EAGLE

by James @ Track Em Tigers on Nov 12, 2007 8:06 PM CST reply actions  

Bowls

I went to the Cotton Bowl last year. The trip/city were fun, but the game was a drag. Since we're pretty much out of the running for any great bowl games, I'd prefer us going to one of the following:

Chick-fil-A
Music City
Liberty

(OK, I live in Huntsville, those are all day trips for me, sue me)

All of those are great cities, and each have unique and great night scenes. If we went to the Liberty, though, we'd be playing a C-USA team, which wouldn't be too exciting.

War Damn Eagle!

by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 12, 2007 8:13 PM CST reply actions  

Cotton stuffing.

.....Chase Daniel against our secondary? Oh my, I definitely hope that thing's wrong! I do give the Cotton Bowl credit. Free parking within walking distance of the stadium. That's not the case in Atlanta. On the other hand, you won't get frozen and sunburned at the same time, in the Georgia Dome.

by Acid Reign on Nov 13, 2007 5:28 AM CST reply actions  

Totally agreed

"On the other hand, you won't get frozen and sunburned at the same time, in the Georgia Dome."

I definitely felt your pain that day!

War Damn Eagle!

by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2007 10:45 AM CST up reply actions  

Potential Peach Bowl

I think it would be great to get to the Peach Bowl -How about FSU as an opponent?  Not only would we get to shed the shawdow of the imfamous "buyout" game, we might get a preview of a potential new coach (Jimbo Fisher).

by UglyJoeinPC on Nov 13, 2007 6:24 AM CST reply actions  

The peach bowl would be ok.......

but I would prefer the cotton bowl over any other alternative outside the state of Florida. I used to live in hotlanta so seeing friends and visiting my old haunts makes the Peach Bowl more attractive than the Cotton. But all of the bowl wish list stuff is putting the cart way ahead of the horse. LETS BEAT BAMA.....then worry about what bowl we go to. AU needs to give Bama concern that their coach may be overpaid and unable to do the job for which he was hired. In other words "lets pee in their cool-aid".lol. War Damn Eagle.

by Todd92 on Nov 13, 2007 8:55 AM CST reply actions  

Bowling Scenarios

Rather than list the bowls, it's probably easier to list the possible conferences we'd like to play.  I like us playing Big 10 (11) teams, although not Wisconsin.  Not that we're afraid of them, just that we've played them twice in the last few years already.

I keep hoping for a possible Cap One bowl game between Florida and the fighting Zookers of Illinois, but maybe I wouldn't mind playing Illinois.

Florida State in the Peach sounds mightly appealing, although there's a host of teams I'd like to play in the ACC, the top one being Miami, but I don't think they will make it to a bowl this year.

But, first thing's first.  Let's take care of the Iron Bowl and then worry about the rest later.

by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 13, 2007 10:31 AM CST reply actions  

First thing is first...

We have to beat Bama!! If it was my choice we would either be going to the Capital One,Cotton,or Chick-fil-a, but like I said I will worry about bowl games after the Iron Bowl!

by augirl on Nov 13, 2007 5:09 PM CST reply actions  

It needs to be New Year's Day or later...

.....if I'm going to be there. I work Sunday night the 30th, and don't get off work till 8:00 AM on the 31st.  Even getting to Nashville for the Music City would be a stretch. The Tampa rice-paddy is not a good destination, either. Remember the 1996 Outback? Knee-deep water? A 43-14 shellacking by Paterno's guys?

.....Zook's teams worry me. He builds defense by starting with a pair of lanky, tall, speedy defensive ends. He did that at UF, and his successor terrorized Ohio State with them. He's got it going again at Illinois. We'd be blocking this with Ziemba and Pugh. Uhhhhh. And let's not forget that the Illini have a Stafford-esque QB, too...

.....We need to get our lines rested up. If we can play well on the lines, run the ball, and get heat on JP Wilson, I think the Iron Bowl is ours!

by Acid Reign on Nov 15, 2007 11:34 AM CST reply actions  

Perhaps

We can give as warm a welcome to Sarah Jessica Parker Wilson as we did to his fellow long-haired teammate and QB predecessor on his final visit to Jordan-Hare.

One of those 12 sacks was mine--sitting up in the stands...

by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 16, 2007 5:54 PM CST reply actions  

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