Auburn producing a stifling, hard-hitting defense seems more like a story you would find in the fiction section rather than a story that's believable.
It wasn't always this way.
The Tigers used to be known as a team that would not only shut down opposing offenses, but would make them hurt in the process with a physical brand of football that became synonymous with the SEC.
That hasn't been the case for the better part of a decade, though. It seems incredible, but Auburn hasn't finished in the top half of the SEC in total defense since 2007.