We Need To Beat Auburn For A 10-Win Season
It’s Nebraska v. Auburn on New Year’s Day in Dallas.
According to Huskers.com:
Auburn will enter the AT&T Cotton Bowl with a 10-2 record and ranked 10th in both the USA Today Coaches poll and the Associated Press poll. The Tigers were ranked as high as second in the polls in early October and own victories over second-ranked Florida and No. 4 LSU. Auburn’s lone setbacks this season came against Arkansas and Georgia.
The matchup with Auburn will mark Nebraska’s fourth game of the season against a top-10 opponent, its most since also meeting four top-10 teams in 1995.
Over the past three years, Auburn has compiled the third-best record in college football (32-5), trailing only USC and Texas.
I’m glad we’re going up against such a strong opponent. Hopefully, it’ll help us focus.
December 4th, 2006 at 5:24 am
I totally agree with BigRedFred’s comment on 11/30. This season will end up being yet another 4 (or 5) loss season now for BC (that’s 3 for 3 in four plus loss years, after true Husker Tom Osborne never had such a season in 25 years and true Husker Frank Solich finished 10-3 his last year). Loser-han would likely have a sub-.500 record at NU if our gloriously omnipotent AD didn’t schedule such cream-puffs (C’mon, Steve! Troy, La. Tech, what’s next all-girls colleges?) to come into Lincoln and get massacred in early September. It’s a practice obviously designed to inflate a bad coach’s record and bad choice by the AD that he doesn’t have the courage to rectify. Plus Huskers like Osborne and Solich never embarassed or alienated the fans, the University or the City by making throat-slashes or referring to loyal supporters as “f-ing hillbillies”! We need a true Husker back as Coach.
I guess that we’re extremely fortunate that Steve Pederson wasn’t around in the past when we were an elite NCAA Football program. He probably would have fired the likes of Devaney and Osborne, and replaced them with outsiders like Gerry Faust and Rich Kotite. And you are right in saying that good opponents such as Auburn will help the Huskers…maybe Steve Pederson will figure that out too when it comes to early September games.
December 4th, 2006 at 6:10 am
What’s up with the “open mouth rep’s” that Callahan was constantly doing on the sidelines vs OU every time the camera captured his appearing-to-be-clueless face? He looked like a hippo who was yawning and excercising his jaw while chillin’ in his mud.
And yes, Auburn is certainly a strong opponent to face in the Cotton Bowl. If the Huskers finish with 5 losses, can we really say that the program is moving in the right direction after 3 years of mediocrity? Have our standards declined so much?
December 4th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
AUBURN IS GOING TO BEAT YOUR PANTS!!!! WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!
December 4th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Since we now have Auburn fans chanting their war cry on our site, it’s time to take a closer look at the chant itself.
According to Wikipedia:
“War Eagle” is the battle cry of Auburn University, not the mascot (the school mascot is the tiger). There are several stories about the battle cry, but the most popular story dates back to the first time Auburn met Georgia on the football field in 1892 and centers around a spectator who was a veteran of the Civil War.
In the stands with him that day was an eagle the old soldier had found on a battlefield during the war. He had kept it as a pet for almost 30 years. According to witnesses, the eagle suddenly broke free and began majestically circling the playing field. As the eagle soared, Auburn began a steady march toward the Georgia end zone for a thrilling victory. Elated at their team’s play and taking the bird’s presence as an omen of success, Auburn students and fans began to yell “War Eagle” to spur on their team. At the game’s end, the eagle took a sudden dive, crashed into the ground, and died. But the battle cry “War Eagle” lived on to become a symbol of the proud Auburn spirit.
December 5th, 2006 at 8:38 am
Hey Husker Fans,
Your team (at 9-4) doesn’t even belong on the samne field as our Auburn Tigers. NU is only going to the Cotton Bowl largely because of it’s PAST FOOTBALL PROGRAM accomplishments. You haven’t been Top-10 worthy for a decade, and your Athletic Dept is more interested in having a “name” head coach rather than having a good football coach. You’ll never reach national prominence again until your University cleans house, starting from the top down. Callahan is a dolt on the sidelines, that is when he’s not making threatening gestures and obscene comments!
WAR EAGLE!
December 5th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Thankfully, the game will be played on an actual football field, not on a blog.
Nebraska is going to the Cotton Bowl as Big 12 runnerup and north division champs. That’s pretty well established.
As for your claims about our worth, I don’t think too many of us fear Auburn. Given that Auburn has never won a game against us, there’s little reason to fear.