Agree on the luck thing. It was a lucky play and yes, you have to have some breaks go your way, whatever they may be, to have a championship type season. Two keys to the season. 1. The D needs to get the points per game they give up to 20 or below. Gave up 25 a game last season. That way, even with a "bad game" offensively, we outscore everyone we play, bar none. 2. Injury free.
Improved D and stay relatively injury free and we should be one of the 4.
I'm not denying that both plays, especially the Prayer in Jordan Hare, involved luck. And lots of it, in the case of PIJH.
But what I'm saying is what has already been said.
A) You have to have
some luck to win championships. Every champion in history had a few lucky bounces. Only when it's Auburn is it used to completely invalidate everything that was done on the field. If Bama had those same two outcomes
zero analysts would be going on about lucky Bama was to get where they did and have no chance of repeating it next year. It would be about how much perseverance they have. Somehow it would be linked back to Saban and the no-quit attitude he instills in the team.
B) While, yes, there was some luck involved, there was a lot of skill to get us there too. It's not like UGA's deflection alone directly gave Auburn 7 points. Ricardo had to have his head in the right place and make the play, which he did. And also, as I said, the game should have been over at that point anyway. Not only had Auburn let off the gas big time in the second half and let a 20 point beatdown slip away, but the TD that finally gave UGA the lead was complete and utter BS, and I would argue much more "luck". And as I said, the Bama game really was much less about luck. Auburn had the slight upper hand the entire game and by the time the Kick 6 happened was clearly carrying all of the momentum. Bama was deflated and on the ropes. And Auburn had a home crowd losing their minds even before that miraculous play. If it had not been run back, we're going to overtime, and I'd have put all my money on Auburn at that point. But it
was run back. And how "miraculous" was it really? It was Gus outcoaching "mastermind" Saban by putting a guy in the end zone and telling him to run it out. It was the infallible Lord Saban lining up a kicker and 10 tubs of lard against our speedsters because it never occurred to him that we might try to run it back. And it was Chris Davis burning all those fat fucks in a true display of athleticism. So I'm much less inclined to chock up the Kick 6 to "luck".
C) I would say Auburn caught as many
unlucky breaks as we did lucky breaks, so if anything it evens out and we're right back where we started as still the best team in the SEC. Or is it only luck when it works out in Auburn's favor? The aforementioned UGA TD that never should have been. The LSU onside kick that was reversed. Come to think of it, the "bad luck" was much less that as it was piss-poor officiating. Man-made bad breaks.
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