It doesn't seem to matter how good Alabama is, how bad Auburn is, if the game is in Jordan-Hare, they seemingly play out of their minds while we struggle with the most basic stuff like snapping the ball, special teams, penalties, and of cours the flukey nonsense that Auburn has go their way.
On paper, if you look over the last 15 years, 2011 is literally the only game in Jordan-Hare Stadium where a good Alabama team beat a bad Auburn team the way they should have. Decisively.
2009 - squeaker ended by the championship drive.
2013 - Kick six.
2015 - Championship Alabama team letting Auburn hang around late in the game.
2017 - Championship Alabama team totally collapsing and getting run over by Jarett Stidham???
2019 - Shootout game, but dumb penalties and a pick six off Najee Harris's butt.
2021 - Championship runner up taken to 4 OT's by Harsin's awful team.
Then tonight, thank God for the result, but why, why, why do we always play so tight in that stadium?? I don't understand it. This literally happens nowhere else.
Is this just a case of Auburn practicing their entire season solely for Bama while we treat it like another game? Are these guys just in our heads? What is the issue and why can't Saban ever get over this hump and just dominate Auburn?
Historically we just do not play well down there.
89- They whip our ass and end our shot at a national championship
93- Weird set of circumstances surrounding the game but Auburn completes an undefeated season
95- one I really can’t remember that well
97- the Scissum play
99- We finally win one down there but it was a hell of a fight
01- when the Cadillac broke down we trounced them. We win pretty good
03- I honestly don’t remember the game that much outside a kick return for a TD that gave us some false hope. I remember this one mostly because there was a segment of the game that we had a male cheerleader being interviewed that transferred from Auburn and he made some stupid statement at how his heart was still at Auburn and it was probably the thing most Alabama fans were talking about the next morning.
05- Brodie game
07- a game we could’ve won if we had more guys who wanted to win it.
09- heart attack game
11- Probably the one legit time in which we totally owned them down there
13- kick six
15- a game that we should have destroyed them but didn’t
17- When everyone pretty much saw that we had a serious issue at quarterback
19- We should have won but it was a never ending score fest in the 2nd half.
21- Still doesn’t make sense at how that game went that route
23- Still recovering