Back in the Top 10! Auburn Rises in FanPulse After Iron Bowl Win

Same old same old at the top this week, except for - what’s that? An Alabama loss! The loss knocked out a potential playoff team (along with Minnesota), now leaving seven teams for four spots. Let’s play through the hypotheticals, shall we?

• LSU and Ohio State are 100% locks, win or lose, I imagine. Clemson is probably in even with a loss, but they’re probably 95% to win anyways. So in theory, there’s four teams vying for one spot.
• If UGA beats LSU, they’re in, no questions asked. The seeding probably gets moved around so Ohio State and Clemson are 1/2, UGA is 3, and LSU is 4.
• If UGA loses, then it comes down to OU/Baylor and Utah. Obviously, if Utah loses then the OU/Baylor winner gets in.
• But if Utah wins, then it’s them or the Big 12 winner. I think the order of priority will be OU>Utah>Baylor, but I’m really not sure. But #8 Baylor will have just beaten #6 Oklahoma and #5 Utah will have just beaten #13 Oregon.

What about the absolute doomsday scenario? Here’s how I picture it:

• LSU blasts UGA and locks up the #1 seed.
• Ohio State does the same to Wisconsin and locks up the #2 spot. I know I said doomsday, but these guys losing doesn’t knock them out of the playoff.
• Let’s have Virginia do something crazy. Like 45-3 win over Clemson crazy. Sorry Tigs, you’re out.
• The Big 12 winner will be an 11-1 conference champion with a win over a top 10 team. Either one of them is in, let’s say Baylor as the #3 seed to make it fun.
• The #4 spot is where things can get interesting. LSU just bombed Georgia to the point where there’s no way they stay at #4. Utah? Sorry, you just lost to #13 Oregon. You’re out.
• This is where the line ends. If everything I said above happens, you’re looking at the 10-2 FLORIDA GATORS as the #4 seed. They would have close losses to the #1 and #5 teams in the country, a win over Auburn, and NOT a loss to South Carolina.

Anyways, Auburn’s sitting right at #10, and even if the season was stupid frustrating, I think we’re right about where we had hoped to be, or better. We beat (in this poll) #9 and #14, and we lost to #1, #4, and #8. With a freshman quarterback and major questions at offensive line, that’s a pretty good result to me.

It looks like you guys are all on Utah for the 4th spot. I wouldn’t hate it.

Back up to the top! After bouncing around all season, we end up with 90% of you confident in the direction of the program.

Wait, wait, look at this.

Imagine being so far up your own ass that losing games turns over ¹⁄₄ of your fanbase off the greatest dynasty of all-time. Couldn’t be my team.