Alabama Football: Glum Aubies are already making excuses

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All of Alabama football attention should be directed to Saturday and the Arkansas Razorbacks. Under Sam Pittman, the Hogs are bold enough to believe they can win and that makes them a dangerous team.

Clinching a berth in the SEC Championship Game is a big deal for Alabama Football. At the same time, there is some interesting distraction coming from the other side of the state of Alabama. The Auburn Tigers may not have quit as a team, but some of their fans are trying to build a retaining wall of excuses for an Iron Bowl loss.

Bo Nix will miss the Iron Bowl because of a broken ankle. If Auburn goes to a late December or January bowl game, perhaps Nix could return. Not that it would much matter to Auburn fans. A byproduct of the massive financial success of the College Football Playoff is that many upper-tier teams label a season without a Playoff berth, as a failure. Going to and winning a top bowl game is now little valued other than by the teams that infrequently gain that opportunity.

Not only is Auburn reeling from the loss of Nix, rumors are circulating Bryan Harsin is on the University of Washington’s list of possibilities for the Huskies’ next head coach. Mr. ‘I don’t talk about vaccinations’ would be an odd fit in Seattle where only a small minority of residents are anti-vaccine.

Apparently the SEC is a branch office of Alabama Football

In Auburn, they are blaming the referees for the recent 33-point (or 40-points going back to the 2nd quarter) meltdown against Mississippi State. The claim is a corrupt SEC, controlled by the University of Alabama was the reason Auburn lost to Mississippi State.

The tweets highlighted below were provided by Message Board Geniuses

"By being afraid to speak about it allows the corruption to continue … don’t complain about the officials they did not make the game-changing calls … they were made by the “suits” in Birmingham SEC office."
"The C in SEC means corruption because it just means more to make sure Georgia and Alabama get into the Playoffs"

The next tweet message is a classic.

"… bama controls the SEC office, and all that is included, so if Auburn is having a good year … they have to stop that. Just like bama only spoke out about Cam Newton when saban thought he might be a threat"

One counter tweet to the Cam Newton reference was spot on.

Use of the word specious is a treat, but in this case, not quite correct. The definition of specious is something actually wrong but superficially plausible. Nothing about the Cam Newton ‘bought and paid for deal’ and the SEC’s blind eye was anything but totally wrong.

There is nothing in the world of college football more pathetic than a whining Aubie. It is going to be a tiresome couple of weeks for Alabama football fans.