No. 2 Auburn vs. No. 6 Georgia — While this rematch could go the other way this time around, it's hard to pick against two -
loss Auburn, perhaps playing the best football in the land along with the Crimson & Cream.
- The first two - loss CFP team (or second, if Auburn's in) has two top - 10 wins, sure, but two -
loss Auburn had that many before conference title weekend.
* The first two - loss CFP team (or second, if Auburn's in) has two top - 10 wins, sure, but two -
loss Auburn had that many before conference title weekend.
We're out here talking about two -
loss Auburn and Ohio State teams and a non-champ Alabama making it in, and a one - loss Miami is supposedly already out?
The biggest loser would be 3 -
loss Auburn, ranked seventh, something that would be much easier to swallow than keeping out Alabama or Ohio State.
Not exact matches
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Auburn: Another week and another
loss for the
Auburn Tigers while Reuben Foster, their top recruit, visited LSU.
But
Auburn's previous game was a narrow
loss to one of the best championship teams in recent memory, while Georgia's was a
loss to Nebraska in the Outback Bowl.
The pain from that
loss was compounded the next day, when the Opelika -
Auburn News used a graphic image of Treadwell's injury on its front page.
The dynamic tailback ran for just 44 yards in
Auburn's
loss to Georgia, but he's had nearly a month to get healthy and back to full strength.
Auburn and Penn State are similar, each with lots of comfortable wins and two close
losses on the road to ranked teams.
While a pair of neutral - site victories over a No. 1 seed (
Auburn) and a No. 3 (Clemson) highlight the Owls» profile, inconsistency, in the form of four Group 3
losses and a late December / early January five - game skid, seriously damages their chances.
In the span of one week, we've gone from the Purdue Boilermakers holding down the fourth and final spot on the top line, to the
Auburn Tigers replacing them on Friday, thanks to three straight Boiler
losses, to the Kansas Jayhawks» ascension today.
If Urban Meyer's Buckeyes win out, only
Auburn could have a better two -
loss résumé.
You have to start getting into «If Ohio State loses to Michigan but beats Wisconsin...» and «If
Auburn beats Alabama but loses to a two -
loss Georgia...» scenarios to build a Playoff case, but if things fall apart, the Trojans could be well - positioned.
First - year coach Gus Malzahn is the front - runner to be named national coach of the year, and
Auburn, despite a 35 — 21
loss to LSU in late September, still has a shot to play for the BCS championship.
Georgia hosts No. 8
Auburn on Saturday, trying to avenge a 79 - 65
loss in January when the Bulldogs blew a 14 - point halftime lead.
Auburn: A return to
Auburn Arena helped the Tigers recover after Wednesday's
loss to Alabama, which snapped a 14 - game winning streak.
Amid 12 years that began with a game relocated by Hurricane Katrina, included the 2007 national championship and 113 other wins, and ended with an astounding
loss at
Auburn, LSU finally succeeded in firing Les Miles.
South Carolina's George Rogers,
Auburn's Bo Jackson, Ohio State's Eddie George, and Notre Dame's Tim Brown had productive games in bowl
losses.
The 6» 8» senior forward was a rebounding force at
Auburn, and his improved scoring ability was evident in his career - high 34 - point performance in a Nov. 30
loss to Duke.
The Tigers are at the top of the heap of the SEC and Florida's
loss to Georgia on Tuesday means
Auburn now has a two - game lead on the rest of the pack.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) Coming off a loss to archrival Alabama and trailing by double digits at halftime for the third time in four games, No. 17 Auburn never panicked and let the home crowd spark another second - half com
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) Coming off a
loss to archrival Alabama and trailing by double digits at halftime for the third time in four games, No. 17
Auburn never panicked and let the home crowd spark another second - half com
Auburn never panicked and let the home crowd spark another second - half comeback.
He threw two interceptions each in wins over
Auburn and Arkansas and three in a
loss to Alabama.
Currently
Auburn (4 wins), LSU (3), and A&M (3) all have one
loss behind a no
loss bama.
There were four consecutive one - possession
losses in conference play to Missouri, Kentucky,
Auburn, and Tennessee.
They do have some blowout
losses, but both were on the road at Georgia and
Auburn in a brutal stretch.
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• Clemson's defense flexed its muscle last weekend, notching 14 tackles for
loss and 11 sacks against
Auburn.
Had the Blue Raiders won just one of the three neutral - site games they played against teams currently in (
Auburn, Miami, USC), they'd probably be okay even after last night's Conference USA quarterfinal
loss to Southern Mississippi.
# 15 Ralph (Shug) Jordan SELMA
Auburn's winningest coach led Tigers to only national title, in 1957; from»56 to»58 went 24 games without a
loss.
A young FSU emerges from a debacle of an ACC (seriously, figuring out ACC wins and
losses took about as much time as everyone else combined) to get a 2013 BCS rematch with
Auburn, and any Tigers fans disappointed with nine or 10 wins suddenly have a bowl worth caring about.
As the Group of Five's New Year's Six rep, the Knights were destined to draw a top - 10 team in a no - win situation, and that certainly applies to
Auburn, which may still be emotionally deflated (if not still physically depleted) from its SEC title game
loss.
In the 13
losses since the start of 2015,
Auburn has averaged 9.4 or fewer yards per completion six times.
Auburn's only
loss, 20 - 7 to Texas, was foregone when the Tigers fell behind early and couldn't come back.
And a second - half road fade against Rutgers has been replaced by a second - half road fade in a much more forgivable
loss: defending SEC champion
Auburn.
Up until Saturday's
loss at
Auburn, the Alabama Crimson Tide easily had the best odds to both make the 4 - Team Playoff and win the National Championship.
The Broncos wouldn't have made the BCS title game that year thanks to two unbeaten power - conference champions — 13 - 0
Auburn would beat 12 - 0 Oregon — but the
loss relegated them from a third BCS bowl in five seasons to the Maaco Bowl in Las Vegas.
Beyond Heisman winner Troy Smith and Ohio State, you've got a lot of flawed contenders, from a Florida that lost to
Auburn, to a Michigan team that had just lost at Ohio State, to a hot LSU that hadn't lost since its early - October trip to Florida, to one -
loss Louisville and Wisconsin teams.
Alabama was undefeated and regarded as the best team before the Tide's regular season ended via Kick Six
loss to
Auburn.
However, bettors were able to get a really good number (+1200) after their
loss to
Auburn.
With their win over SEC Tournament top seed
Auburn, Collin Sexton and the Crimson Tide earned a bit of breathing room, even if a defeat in tomorrow's semifinal against Kentucky would be Bama's 15th, which would tie last season's Vanderbilt squad for the most
losses ever for an at - large.
Flying high with only one
loss,
Auburn would dominate a demoralized A&M before doing the same to Georgia and setting up the Biggest Iron Bowl Since the Last One, one that might decide the SEC's place in the College Football Playoff.
Florida had suffered only a last - second
loss to
Auburn the week before.
Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema was briefly misunderstood following the Razorbacks» 45 - 21
loss to
Auburn in Week 1.
The numbers didn't think so; A&M had sunk all the way to 61st in the F / + rankings, while
Auburn had risen to first on the power of wins over LSU and Ole Miss and the fact that the MSU
loss was based partially in turnovers.
1 Georgia getting blown out at
Auburn, No. 3 Notre Dame getting blown out at Miami, and No. 2 Miami narrowly avoiding its first
loss of the season at Mississippi State.
But nothing in the last month, in which A&M went 1 - 3 with only a narrow win over ULM and switched quarterbacks while
Auburn went 3 - 1 with only a
loss at No. 1 Mississippi State, hinted that this was still a possibility.
With a win at No. 10
Auburn, No. 1 Georgia moves a couple more wins away from quite possibly clinching a Playoff bid regardless of the SEC Championship's result, while
Auburn can take one huge step through an impossible gauntlet and possibly take the first - ever two -
loss Playoff trip.
The Tigers had the better
loss —
Auburn's was to a Texas team that came within a field goal of going unbeaten, and Texas» only
loss was to a Georgia team that
Auburn had beaten, while Miami fell to Florida by 25 points.