Nice article on Malzahn on SI.com and Auburn makes the 16 team playoff

[jadennis]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/10/01/malzahn/index.html?eref=T1

They also have a 16 team playoff bracket that they put together every week based on the votes of 14 college football writers, editors, and producers at SI.

Auburn made the 16 team field in their first edition.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/ncaa/09/27/college.football.poll/index.html

[Buzz Killington]

Some things just slip by me from time to time...
I hadn't really paid attention to the team's records with Malz as the OC.  He hasn't won less than 10 games in any of the 3 years as an OC.  Hopefully he continues that trend.

[jadennis]

Some things just slip by me from time to time...
I hadn't really paid attention to the team's records with Malz as the OC.  He hasn't won less than 10 games in any of the 3 years as an OC.  Hopefully he continues that trend.

And even Kiffin complemented the fact that he has had such success at three different programs in such short periods of time.  Not to mention, the three programs he's been to couldn't have been more different from a personnel stand point. 

And talk about playing to your strengths, look at the national ranking at Tulsa in rushing yards from one year to the next.  The first year, they simply weren't very good at running it (#41 nationally), so they didn't as much.  The second year they were (#5 nationally), so they did, which is what he prefers. 

And yeah, Houston Nutt's only ten win season at Arkansas...2006 with Malzahn.