NEW ORLEANS -- SEC teams typically don’t face the skepticism that has confronted Auburn since its selection to represent the conference in Monday’s Allstate Sugar Bowl (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN).
SEC teams typically don’t enter the game with four losses, though. In fact it has never happened. In a bowl game that dates back to 1935, only one other team -- the ACC's Florida State in 2003 -- came to New Orleans with four losses on its resume.
Perhaps it makes sense, then, that Auburn players have faced questions this week that hinted at this general theme: What are you doing here?