Suicide Watch Week 7

It's midway thought the college football season. Auburn finds themselves 4-2 and on a roll after a miserable start to the 2007 season. The Tigers are on a 3 game winning streak, including back to back wins in the SEC and are also back in the Top 25 for the first time since dropping out of the rankings with their overtime loss to South Florida. in retrospect they've lost to a top 10 team and a surprising Mississippi State squad that's probably gonna end up in a bowl. these are all the positive ways at looking at what's unfolded over the 1st half...but you know me, i'm never too positive. in all honesty Auburn should be AT LEAST 5-1 and ranked in the top 10 or better yet undefeated and playing for a shot at the National Championship...but this is the hand we are dealt. after the rough start i'm just happy to be ranked and relevant again. an added bonus to the last few weeks of good fortune has been the poor play of both Georgia and Alabama. with Bama completely dominating recruiting in the state of Alabama this year (thanks to Sith Lord Saban and his mind tricks) Auburn really needs to finish strong and snatch up as many top prospects as possible. From here on out it feels like Auburn could beat just about any team they should have to face and with the exception of LSU i don't see why they couldn't win out and finish the regular season at 9-3 and earn a New Years bowl bid. Capital One Bowl anyone?

One of the biggest and scariest obstacles to salvaging this season is about to rear it's ugly head this Saturday in the form of the Arkansas Razorbacks. Last season the Tigers were humming along, ranked number 2 in the nation after knocking off LSU and South Carolina when they ran into the buzzsaw that was the Razorbacks. Darren McFadden crashed through Auburn's front 7 like they were made of paper and racked 145 yards and a touchdown and kicked his Heisman campaign into gear. it was complete domination from start to finish....and then there was this fucking play:

that's called insult to injury. after that it was basically over as the Razorbacks rolled to a 27-10 beatdown of Auburn at Jordan-Hare stadium thus ruining the Tigers best chance at a Title in years. Auburn was able to bounce back and beat Florida a few weeks later but it was never really the same after that. While Arkansas managed to somehow win the SEC West despite not actually having anyone who could play quarterback and pretty much brought college football back about 4 decades.

and so here we are, a year later. Arkansas find themselves 0-2 in the SEC and under a cloud of controversy. Houston Nutt is almost definitely out the door unless the Hogs can knock off Auburn and LSU and somehow win the SEC West again. I would love nothing more than for the Tigers to get revenge on Arkansas and drive that nail into Houston Nutts coffin with a huge blowout win at their stadium. But these are difficult times in the college football universe. up is down, right is left, Stanford beat USC, a Florida quarterback is one of my favorite players. Nothing Makes Sense. that being said, Arkansas is ALWAYS scary. They have a two headed beast at runningback and they run the fucking Wildcat or Wildhog or whatever the hell it's called when that stick McFadden at QB and just let him get all LT in your ass.

Potential for Tragedy: a solid 5. Arkansas is always a tough game for Auburn. They have the best backfield in college football, but that's about it. stop the run and the Tigers will win....but that's easier said than done when you are trying to stop Superman.

Method of Suicide: HIT BY A MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN, D-Mac is coming and he's running you over.