NEW ORLEANS -- A few days before his final college game, Alex Kozan allowed himself to philosophize about his college career and how it mirrored Auburn’s football history.
In five seasons at Auburn, the All-SEC offensive lineman had a front-row seat on an Auburn rollercoaster that careened between arguably the worst season in school history, off-the-field tragedies, a fired coach, a national championship game appearance the next season and varying levels of success and mediocrity between those two endpoints.