We continue the Opponent Preview series today with a look at Auburn’s final non-conference opponent, the Liberty Flames. The backdrop of intertwining stories provide a much more interesting November cupcake weekend opponent than usual, and one that’s a dangerous foe coming between road trips to Athens and Tuscaloosa.
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In an alternate timeline somewhere, Gene Chizik is still the head coach at Iowa State, and Turner Gill became the head coach at Auburn in the winter of 2008. Gill was the hot name for a brief time after taking Buffalo to a MAC Championship, beating previously-undefeated Ball State in the conference title game.