Tomorrow Auburn faces a very important litmus test. A road win in College Station doesn’t make Auburn an automatic title contender but it does prove the Tigers do in fact have a quality football team capable of beating good teams on the road. A loss doesn’t mean all hope is lost but it puts Auburn in desperation mode a lot sooner than any of us would like.
For the Tigers, hope resides in its defense which has proven championship calibre through three weeks. They will face an offense though that chewed up yards against them in the comfy confines of Jordan-Hare Stadium last season.