AUBURN FALLS TO 1-5 AFTER LOSS TO OLE MISS

Ole Miss gets much needed SEC win over hapless AU...

       Auburn played better than they did against Arkansas.  Better wasn't good enough. Late in the 4th quarter Bo Wallace threw a short pass all purpose back Jeff Scott. It didn't seem like much.  After Auburn defenders let the scat back roll over two tacklers it was deja vue all over again. Scott was tackled but never hit the ground. 56 yards later it was a Rebel touchdown, the fat lady sang, and Stan White jumped out of the press box. Somewhere Michael Dyer must have laughed at loud.

        Ole Miss fans will remember the Rebels last beat another SEC team on October 2, 2010. For the record it was Kentucky. There are toddlers who have learned to walk since that game. The for one team is over. You have to wonder if another drought might be beginning for a different team? I wonder how long it has been since an Auburn team lost to Ole Miss and Vanderbilt in the same season?  Stay tuned. It might just happen next weekend.  Since the Auburn national championship game against Oregon the Tigers have a 9-11 SEC record. Oh my, what's a Tiger to do? I frankly have no idea but I bet it will involve a lot of finger pointing, back stabbing, and a healthy dose of second guessing.

       Auburn may have ended the Frazier experiment at quarterback. Clint Moseley brought the Tigers back to take a brief lead in the first half. That was it. Auburn just doesn't have good enough offensive or defensive line to win consistently in the SEC. Their runnng backs give good effort. The linebackers play hard. I'd find it hard to conjure up more than 2 more wins for the Tigers. That would mean a 3 win season. It should mean the end of Gene Chizik. At least 2 high profile recruits have considered opening up the visitations process again. The end hasn't arrived for Auburn but all the elements are in place for a decade long collapse on the Plains. A lot of things can happen to Auburn right now, and not a single one seems good. Perhaps the worst of all would be the full time return of Dr. Doom a/k/a Paul Finebaum. Paul smells a story here in the midst of all the Tiger turmoil. I wonder if it is the same one I sense. It's not the end of Gene Chizik. Is it the end of the Pat Dye era at Auburn? 41-20 isn't going to go over well with anyone on the Plains. You might be able to spin a close loss. No spinning this one - the Tigers about as bad as a team can play. Playing worse than that will come later this season.


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