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The argument for Auburn: there's more than one reason the Tigers shouldn't win the national championship. But in a season of breakthroughs in college football, they will disprove each one--and that's no joke.(College Football Preview)

The Sporting News

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They know you're laughing Shoot, their friends are, too. Any respectable Southern-fried football fan worth his weight in homemade hangover tonics does a double take at the very thought of it. The Auburn Tigers, national champions? Couldn't be. Around these parts in Alabama, anticipation is tangled with hesitation at every turn, an eerie backdrop to a hyped season of hope.

History is the eventual arbiter for all that is argued in the sticky, sweaty months of summer. Can't bicker about college football unless you know your history, and you sure as hell can't stick the bull's-eye of title favorite on Aubie without understanding the unwritten rule that clings to the ...

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