How Is Your Team's Starting QB Gonna Wreck Your Season This Year?

as an Auburn fan i just finished a 3 year roller coaster ride that was Brandon Cox. the guy could deliver thrills (4th and forever against UGA 2005) and despair (the last 2 games against UGA) but all in all he won more than he lost, was a tough kid who took too many hits, beat Bama 3 times, won 2 bowl games, and was in general a respectable (aka typical) SEC QB from the golden days when a quarterback was supposed to hand the ball off a lot and make a few plays when he had to. but dear god am i glad to see him go. it became painfully obvious to me during the 2006 season that their was no way Auburn could ever win a championship with Cox leading the way. beating Bama is nice and all but Auburn fans wanna see some banners flying over Jordan-Hare. it's been 51 years since Auburn won a national title and that's too damn long when every other major school (aka the other big 5) in the SEC has won at least 1 national championship in the last 25 years.

blah blah blah, bitch bitch bitch....regardless the point of my pointless rant is that it's pretty obvious that to win a title you gotta have a good QB. Jason Campbell had 4 coordinators in 4 years which wasted the most talented QB the Tigers have had in decades. Cox was always more of a caretaker and not a playmaker. and the list of QBs before them is mostly just littered with average to above average SEC style qbs. Auburn really hasn't had a solid championship QB since Stan White left the building. and so the fate of Auburn's destiny now lays in the hands of one Kodi Burns. the kid is built like a runningback and i know he'll be able to get yards on the ground, i actually won't be surprised if he leads the team in rushing this year out of the spread. but what the Auburn nation wonders is will he be able to pass the ball around and makes some big plays with his arm?

similar questions are all over the SEC this season with Kentucky, South Carolina, LSU, Tennessee, and Ole' Miss all breaking in new QBs. Vanderbilt isn't sure which of the guys who started for them last season is gonna be the QB and Bama has John Parker Wilson...so yeah. Mississippi State seems to have found their man. and Arkansas is hoping Bobby Petrino can use some wizard magic on Casey Dick and turn him into a Stefon Lefors level college QB (minus the sign language). the only real proven players are Tim Tebow and Matt Stafford of Florida and Georgia...which remains the main reason both schools are being picked as SEC and National contenders. if Kodi Burns can find himself as the 3rd or 4th best signal caller in the league (which i believe is possible considering that only Jonathon Crompton of Tennessee seems like he has any real NFL potential among the remaining starters) then it's a pretty good chance Auburn will be playing in a BCS bowl this year. but then again i'm trying to be an optimist this year...we'll see how that works for me.