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Auburn football: B/R projects Citrus Bowl matchup against Wisconsin

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Auburn football may have a light at the end of the tunnel in this 2020-21 season: a top-non New Year’s 6 Bowl game matchup against the Wisconsin Badgers.

Bleacher Report’s Kerry Miller didn’t take it easy on Auburn football in his latest College Football Playoff Projections…nor should he have. Off the bat, he pointed out how little of a shot the Tigers had of making the postseason even before this past Saturday’s loss against the Alabama Crimson Tide:

Three of those five teams—Auburn, North Carolina and Texas—were already long shots to play in a New Year’s Six bowl and lost to higher-ranked opponents.