Alabama vs. Auburn Football 2015

According to oddsmakers from online sports book Mybookie.ag, the Crimson Tide is a 14.5-point road favorite versus the Tigers after Auburn opened as a 13-point home underdog.

ON THE LINE: Auburn is hoping to have two starting offensive linemen back before facing Alabama’s formidable front seven.

Henry’s last run was also significant. That’s all, folks. Goodbye, upset bid.

“They’ve got a lot of good players and they’re all capable of making a good play”, Saban said. That’s exactly what the Tide did by beating Auburn, the program’s ninth straight victory since falling to the Rebels.

“My or no representative of Will Muschamp has been contacted about any job, I can assure you of that”, Muschamp said on November 22. “Ever since the Ole Miss game, they’ve had their back against the wall”, Saban said. “I asked him every time he came over to the sideline, ‘Are you OK?”

Auburn bounced right back with Smith’s improbable but eerily familiar touchdown catch. A much-maligned Tigers defense limited the Tide in the first half, standing strong in the red zone and forcing them to settle for four field goals.

Even as Auburn’s defense helped keep those yards from turning into points, though, the Tigers’ offense continued to sputter. With the point-after kick by Carlson, Alabama’s lead was trimmed to 19-13 with 4:27 left in the third period.

He ran the ball a school-record 46 times against Auburn for 271 yards. A last-minute touchdown run gave Henry the Alabama single-season touchdown record.

Alabama has averaged 198.9 rush yards per game over the course of the season while Auburn allows the fourth-most rushing yards in the SEC (180.9 per game) and has given up 23 rushing touchdowns in 2015. “This year we have struggled at times more, there some things we have done well and some things we haven’t done as well”. At Price’s Barbecue Shop a few blocks away, a few old-timers are discussing the provenance of the day’s ref’s-“One’s from south Alabama, down Route 43″-and trying to decide whether that bodes well or ill for the Tigers”.

The playoffs might be a lost cause if that happens, though. Like I said, our goal was to get to the 4th quarter and find a way to win. No one knows that better, or with more acute pain, than Saban himself. He made two from 26 yards, one from 40 and one from 50.

Still, they’ll take it. A win is a win. “It happened. I wasn’t thinking about that at all”.

Now the Tide are on the cusp of bringing another SEC championship trophy back to Tuscaloosa.

USA Today’s Daniel Uthman broke down what each of the country’s top teams need to do to earn a berth into the College Football Playoff. “That’s two years ago”.

“We have not had an issue with this team”, he said.