And I'm not trying to be a homer. Far from it. Its more of an observation that we really have lost perspective on what bad is and, like Chad said, starting to eerily sound like Bammers in many ways.
I really hate when people bring karma and whatnot into the fortunes of the Auburn football team, but part of me wants to tell the Auburn fans that bitched about the
way in which we beat the #3 team in the country, to whom we were underdogs...hope you're happy. You wanted so badly to bitch about how awful we are and how shitty we looked. Well,
THIS WEEKEND you got your wish.
Alabama is every bit the "team of destiny" people said we were last year. Lucky fucking assed breaks every step of the way. They SHOULD have lost to Arkansas and LSU. They looked like shit against West Virginia and Florida. Yes, we lost to a team that they beat the pants off of 59-0. But they
should have lost to teams we beat 45-21 and 41-7.
And the only reason we lost to aTm is because we did it to ourselves. Well, the refs helped their fair share (CAP recovered that goddamn fumble. The A&M kid
pretty much admitted it.), but I'm not going to fall into that excuse. We shouldn't have let it get that close. The 10 point swing from the blocked field goal ran all the way back on us was the dagger in our heart. Turning the ball over on our first possession again to allow them to go up 14-0 in the first two minutes of the game didn't help. Neither did Reese's butt fumble. Neither did CAP fumbling in the first place.
All of that shit combined was the complete antithesis of the "everything going right" "team of destiny" shit we heard last year (and even last week after the Ole Miss game). In those cases we're talking about a play here or there. With the exception of the UGA game (that was cancelling out a blown Murray TD call), the others were more about pure skill than luck, but I've ranted on that before. Anyway, we fucked up in every way imaginable against A&M and were still in position to win the game at the very end.
So what does it all mean? I still think we're better than just about every team in the country. But I also think we shoot ourselves in the goddamn foot more than any of them. Whose fault is that? I don't know. Can we get our shit together to close out amen-corner? I doubt it. But it
is possible that this pisses our team off enough to focus their rage on flawless execution to put together a complete game like we did against the corndogs. And if we do that, our best is good enough to beat both UGA and Bama, IMO.
Oh and there's pretty much zero chance we make it to Atlanta, much less the playoffs, but I'll be goddamned if I don't want us to play in either if the clouds parted and the stars aligned and that miracle was granted. As others eluded to, if we make it to Atlanta, then mathematically, we deserve it.
And I know math.