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Music City Bowl Review: First of Many

In case you missed it, there were a ton of highlights from Auburn’s 63-14 win over Purdue in the Music City Bowl. It was the highest-scoring bowl effort in SEC history, and the Tigers’ 56 first-half points were the most in a single half in any bowl ever.

The fact that the highlights cut out mid-third quarter is telling, because Auburn really, really, really started to burn clock and let the air out of this one. They actually should’ve had an all-time bowl record 70 points on Joey Gatewood’s run late in the game, but it was called short of the goal line, and then C.