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Auburn's Single Wing Spinning Fullback Series

Before the Auburn game, Clemson DC Brent Venables googled "how to stop the Wing T," saying he'd been tipped off that Auburn might use it. As a staffer at College and Mag, it's good to know Brent is a reader.

Venables probably misspoke. Everyone who has paid attention to Malzahn since Arkansas can see the influence the Wing T has on his offense. The formation Auburn ran that surprised everyone was not the Wing T but the much older Single Wing.

In 1907, Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner invented a new offense which would become known as the "Single Wing.