Auburn Tigers headed to Sugar Bowl

Is it true “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”? We will find out as after an odd season of ups and downs, and a somewhat bitter tasting end in the last two games of the season, a spoonful of sugar is now in the mouths of the No.14 Auburn Tigers who have been invited to the Sugar Bowl to play the Big XII Champion, Oklahoma Sooners, ranked at No.7. The game is set for Jan. 2 at 7:30CT inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.

This will be the second time the Sooners and the Tigers have met at the Sugar Bowl. In 1972, Pat Sullivan led his Tigers on the field to meet the Sooners. Oklahoma came away with a 40-22 victory and the Sugar Bowl trophy, Pat Sullivan came away with…