Last year's Florida State -
Auburn national title game brought in 25.57 million viewers.
Not exact matches
In his second season, the Knights ranked No. 1 in scoring offense and had a 13 — 0 record, capped off by a Peach Bowl win over an
Auburn squad that beat both
national title game participants.
This week, Boise State is favored by two touchdowns and hopes to move up in the
National Title rankings, with several other big
games (like
Auburn - Alabama, above!)
Few
national title games this century were on par with this one — maybe Ohio State upsetting Miami, Texas outdueling USC and Florida State surviving
Auburn would be in the conversation.
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Auburn's winningest coach led Tigers to only
national title, in 1957; from»56 to»58 went 24
games without a loss.
Last year's star of the BCS
National Championship
game, Katherine Webb, was back making news during Monday's FSU -
Auburn title.
Sure,
Auburn went from 3 - 9 to the
national title game in 2013, but that's a power - conference team.
Alabama does still have to win two road
games versus opponents who have at least occasionally been salty this year (Mississippi State,
Auburn), and an
Auburn team not much worse than this one almost took out «Bama's
national title winner in 2009.
The Tide needed a blocked kick to top Tennessee, beat Virginia Tech by 10, beat LSU by nine, came back to survive
Auburn with 1:26 on the clock, and knocked Colt McCoy out of the
national title game (but probably would've won anyway).