My Auburn Tigers

Since I don't deploy until May I thought my first post should be about my Auburn Tigers.

I have always loved the Auburn Tigers. They are always there, always trying, always changing. Living in Alabama means a couple of things. Football is life, and big trucks are the norm in this great state. Auburn fans are the minority and probably always have been. Auburn is my comfort food. They always keep it interesting.

It is week 5 of the college football season, and Auburn appears to be climbing up the ladder with a seemingly unstoppable offense. Sure we weren't playing some of the best defenses in the country but we were still chewing them up and spitting them out with multiple "big" plays and a solid running game. Auburn fans had already begun talking trash about what "could" be in the SEC.

Now it's week 8 of the college football season, and Auburn is a team that would have trouble stopping a high-powered high school offense. It's hard to blame everything on Ted Roof, but we just don't have the defensive depth that we have come to know at Auburn. For that 3-game stretch, Auburn linebackers were playing virtually every snap and during the fourth quarter of those games it was all to apparent.

Auburn's back!! After beating Ole Miss in pretty good fashion this past weekend, the shouts can be heard across the state that Auburn is back, and although I want to agree and start shouting as well it may be premature with 2 stout SEC opponents coming up to finish the schedule.

Probably not an all-star post, but i'll get better. Comments welcome.