Will Auburn lose before bowl season?

• gorocks99

  

  Auburn has two games left ... @ Alabama and vs South Carolina. I'm gonna say they lose one of those to finish out 12-1. Would pollsters find a way to jump (or in Auburn's case, keep) a one-loss team above both Boise and TCU? I don't see how they could, but stranger things have happened.
• gerb131

  

  Not going to happen. I would have said Bama had a chance but they look totally different these days without two healthy backs.
  S Car has a chance though but I don't think they can score with Auburn.
• krambman

  

  gorocks99;559503 wrote:Auburn has two games left ... @ Alabama and vs South Carolina. I'm gonna say they lose one of those to finish out 12-1. Would pollsters find a way to jump (or in Auburn's case, keep) a one-loss team above both Boise and TCU? I don't see how they could, but stranger things have happened.

  
  I don't think that they're going to lose, but with all the stuff going on with Cam Newton I think that we'd be more likely to see voters vote Auburn down to keep them out so that we could avoid any fall out if he is deemed ineligible.
  
  I'm also curious why anyone would think that any of the pollsters would try and keep Boise or TCu out of the title game. The voters aren't getting kickbacks from the BCS and there's no backroom deals going on between some good-old-boys committee. There's no incentive for voters to vote them lower than they have been voting them other than the fact that they think Auburn is still better or more deserving even with one loss.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Alabama will beat them, then they will blow out South Carolina and jump back up to #2 in the BCS.
• centralbucksfan

  Bama is going to take them down. I can't see Auburn, with that poor defense, going into Bama and winning. Bama isn't great by any means. But they hvae enough on defense to, at the very least, contain Auburn offense and definately can score on Auburn. I think they will establish the run and keep Newton on the sideline as much as they can.
• Mulva

  

  Yes, Auburn definitely loses before bowl season. And then everything else gets vacated anyways.
• believer

  

  Auburn will lose but the superior, awesome and speedy SEC will still have find a way to have a one-loss team make the NC. It's the way of things.
• cats gone wild

  Auburn will lose to both, Im hoping! Who knows, Newton might be done.
• Al Bundy

  krambman;559535 wrote:I don't think that they're going to lose, but with all the stuff going on with Cam Newton I think that we'd be more likely to see voters vote Auburn down to keep them out so that we could avoid any fall out if he is deemed ineligible.
  
  I'm also curious why anyone would think that any of the pollsters would try and keep Boise or TCu out of the title game. The voters aren't getting kickbacks from the BCS and there's no backroom deals going on between some good-old-boys committee. There's no incentive for voters to vote them lower than they have been voting them other than the fact that they think Auburn is still better or more deserving even with one loss.

  In a sense some coaches do have an incentive on how they vote depening upon how their conference splits up the bowl $$$$ from the teams that go.
• krambman

  

  Al Bundy;560424 wrote:In a sense some coaches do have an incentive on how they vote depening upon how their conference splits up the bowl $$$$ from the teams that go.

  
  I believe that all of the BCS conference do even distribution of bowl money and you don't make more for playing in the title game over any other BCS bowl. If Boise finished as the highest ranked non-AQ team (which it appears that they will given their remaining schedule) then they would be getting into a BCS bowl game regardless, so putting them into the title game isn't going to cost anyone any money. The only person it will cost is the team (Auburn in this scenario) that gets left out, and I doubt Nick Saban and Urban Meyer really care if Auburn loses out on a few bucks in merchandising by playing in the Sugar Bowl instead of the championship game. And since Boise would be playing a BCS bowl anyway, it's not likely to affect the at-large selections any either. It would still be the same 10 teams that would make it in if Auburn played in the title game and Boise played in the Rose Bowl.