Shot.
Well, it’s bowl season again.
Here are the three fan bases most likely to use that excuse if their teams lose:
3. Auburn
Bowl Game: Birmingham Bowl vs. No. 21 Houston
Auburn fans should care about this bowl and if the Tigers win, they might. Major departures in the transfer portal, coaching staff changes, a heartbreaking loss to rival Alabama and a mediocre 6-6 season is the perfect recipe for fans to say the players didn’t want to be there.
It seems like most Auburn fans are moving on to 2022 instead of focusing on the Birmingham Bowl at the new and beautiful Protective Stadium in Uptown Birmingham. Remember last season when Northwestern piled on against Auburn in the Citrus Bowl?
Houston has the potential to do something similar. Hopefully, the players care to be there, but if Auburn loses, the fan will certainly say they didn’t.
It’s getting to be an Auburn tradition.
Get The Picture 
SEC Shorts has their “bowl dance” skit. Maybe they need a “break up” skit after the dust settles.
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Maybe a positive side effect of players opting out will be more entertaining bowl games. Seemed to be the case in our game against Cincinnati last year. It seems to help the underdog.
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Too bad GA State can’t get another payday rematch with War Tiger this year, I think game 2 would be much easier sledding
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I guess they don’t care for Auburn
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McCreary is one of the best coverage guys I’ve ever seen. He was most of the reason Bama’s offense went away in the Iron Bowl.
Auburn’s going to miss him against Houston.
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Yep. Sometimes it’s an excuse and sometimes it’s a reason.
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Just curious. Who is Auburn’s next Heisman winning quarterback? It’s never too early for that hype train to leave the station.
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I know I’m a die-hard Dawg fan but I have to admit that new tradition Auburn has looks good on them.
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They were going to have the hands full with Houston at full strength let alone with opt-outs. Coogs are trending up while Auburn… yeah. Well, I guess it’s good there’s a court-imposed injunction on the vaccine mandate so they at least still have a head coach.
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Yeah, my Auburn buddy was pissed they got stuck in the Birmingham Bowl. Meanwhile, Houston is getting ready to kick some SEC ass. I don’t think it will be pretty.
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AU is damn lucky to be in any BOWL….
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#AUBURN SUCKS! lives, exists, eats, walks, talks, succles from the very toilet bowl of existence that is the prettiest little cesspool on the plains…#AUBURN SUCKS!…that barner hc sure do miss him some boise blue football turf…
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Houston should win this game
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Whatever happened to Bo Nix in the Portal? LMAO..
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“Bo Nix and the Portals” is the name of my Tate Martel tribute band.
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Now there’s this weird dynamic where it could flip. Everybody sees the team who doesn’t want to be there in advance. Houston becomes the favorite and ragtag Auburn becomes the underdog. If Auburn wins, Houston could actually claim their players got complacent. But wait, then it flips again. My head hurts.
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I still hold Auburn fully accountable for allowing the self-aggrandizing, egotistical assholes in Orlando to be in the position to falsely claim a NC. You had one job.
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