Can we go ahead and just call it? There are a lot of rivalries in college football, but there’s no arguing that Auburn-LSU is the weirdest. Earthquake games. Burning Arenas. Interceptions. Six field goals made. Five field goals missed. Burning Trees. Improbable last second wins. Say what you will, but there’s some strange voodoo in this series.
Billed (and later confirmed) as the Hot Seat Bowl, Saturday’s contest lived up to the consequences. The Mad-Hatter passed his cap to the newly hatted one himself, Gus Malzahn.
Les Miles will be missed in this series. Coaching aside, he was the master of the press conference.