Initial Impressions: Alabama exorcises the Auburn hex

Marvin Gentry-USA TODAY SportsFor the last 9 years, every single Iron Bowl (with the exception of the glorious years of 2011 and 2012), has been filled with what I like to call “Plains Voodoo”. It comes in different forms, but it always involves wacky plays from the Tigers that somehow skew the game score to look much different than what you’d expect from looking at a box score. I won’t go into details and examples, since Gary Danielson did that well enough for us in the CBS pregame show.

This year started no differently. You could tell from the first few plays of the game that Alabama is just playing on a higher plane of existance than Auburn. Despite the talent disparity and Auburn’s total…