Auburn Linkage:

Just a few links I found interesting:

Odd article about Matthew Motley, Auburn's kick holder and Team Captain. Why Team Captain, you ask? Because he is an expert on coin tosses (seriously).

Birmingham News Sports Columnist Kevin Scarbinsky puts Auburn's season into perspective. His final analysis:

This team tends to scare its fans more than its opponents, to give up big plays as fast as it can make them, to make people think it would have no chance if it found itself face to face with Ohio State.

This team is not a great team, but it still has a chance to do great things.

This team could go down against Georgia or Alabama, or it could go down in Auburn history.

Like the 2004 team.

AuMicBK of AuNews.net rolls out his weekly update on Auburn players as they advance up the all-time records set by some of the greats. Did you know John Vaughn broke the all-time made field goals record or that Courtney Taylor passed Terry Beasley and Tyrone Goodson to become second in career receptions? Pretty impressive.

Another odd stat, Brad Lester is averaging touchdowns per carry at a rate higher than any other running back in Auburn's history.

Not that anyone may care, but, a little inside info from Arkansas State's perspective.

And finally, just for fun, a pretty pathetic interview with Jimmy Johns, Alabama running back, in which he describes why the upcoming weekend is a revenge game. Basically, Croome told him he would never play quarterback, but could be a very good running back. Mikey Shula recruited Jimmy Johns as a quarterback. Of course, Johns is being used almost exclusively as a running back. For that, Johns is mad at Croome. Figure that one out. Plus, some quality third person references at the end.

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