Shug Jordan thought playoffs were for the pros

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Playoff? We don’t need no stinkin’ playoff.Auburn’s first great coach was all about a college football playoff. Shug was not.

Yes, pretty much every other NCAA sport had one. But add four games to a football schedule? Maybe more? Just go ahead and take the “college” off the game, because in terms of time commitment and physical toll, that there is pro ball. At least that’s what Shug thought, and told reporters down in New Orleans before taking on Oklahoma in the 1972 Sugar Bowl during a spike in playoff chatter.

Sure, that year there’d be a pretty solid consensus on crowning the Orange Bowl winner, be it Bama or Nebraska (and thankfully it was Nebraska). But still,…