9.
Auburn
Total Five-Year Program Score:
99.48
Program Analysis ... How long can Auburn stay among the elite of the elite with the major overhaul done in the coaching staff and with the rest of the SEC West getting better and better?
Don't get comfortable with this high status, Tiger fans, with the 13-0 2004 season going out of the rankings next year. That team with Ronnie Brown, Carnell Williams, and Jason Campbell not only brought the program to the cusp of the national title, it also cranked out five Quality Wins, with four of them Elite, and it appeared to show that Auburn was going to be at a superpower status that
Florida and LSU are at now. But a lack of offense, thanks to offensive coordinator issues, led to 208 points last year in a 5-7 season, and it paved the way for the start of the Gene Chizik era. Controversial as the hire is, Chizik has put together a great coaching staff and should be able to keep the pipeline of talent coming in.
Again, though, the big problem is going to be the
rise of Alabama. With Ole Miss appearing to be on
the verge of being a consistent player in the SEC
race, with Bobby Petrino quickly making Arkansas
more dangerous, and with LSU being LSU, the West has
become brutal. Auburn owned Alabama for years, but
that train might have stopped. For the moment,
though, the Elite Win score is second only behind USC. Now it's up to Chizik to get the program back up to the status that Tiger fans are expecting.
Attendance Score: 4.72
2004: 83,085, 2005: 84,161, 2006:
85,063, 2007: 84,689, 2008: 86,915
APR Score: 7
Draft: 22
2005: RB Ronnie Brown, RB Cadillac Williams, DB Carlos Rogers, QB Jason Campbell, DE Jay Ratliff
2006: OT Marcus
McNeill, WR Devin Aromashodu, DE Stanley McClover,
WR Ben Obomanu
2007: OG Ben
Grubbs, RB Kenny Irons, LB Will Herring, DB David
Irons, WR Courtney Taylor
2008: DE Quentin Groves, DB Patrick Lee, DT Pat Sims, DB Jonathan Wilhite, OT King Dunlap
2009: DT
Sen'Derrick Marks, DB Jerraud Powers, DT Tyronne
Green
FBS Wins: 43
Quality Wins: 26
2004: LSU, at Tennessee, Georgia, Tennessee (SEC Championship), Virginia Tech (Sugar Bowl)
2005: South Carolina, at Georgia, Alabama
2006:
LSU, at South Carolina, Florida, Nebraska (Cotton Bowl)
2007: at Florida, at Arkansas, Alabama, Clemson (Chick-fil-A Bowl)
2008: Southern Miss
Elite Win Score: 8
2004: at LSU, Georgia, Tennessee (SEC Championship), Virginia Tech (Sugar Bowl)
2005: at Georgia, Alabama
2006: LSU, Florida
2007: None
2008: None
Bad Loss Score: 0
Elite Losses: 4
2004: None
2005: at LSU
2006:
None
2007: at LSU, at Georgia
2008: at Alabama
Bad Wins: 12
2004: at Mississippi State, Citadel,
Kentucky
2005: Mississippi State, Western Kentucky, Ole
Miss, at Kentucky
2006: at Mississippi State, Buffalo,
2007: Ole Miss, Tennessee Tech
2008: Tennessee-Martin
Conf. Score: 7.00
2004: 8-0, 2005: 7-1, 2006:
6-2, 2007: 5-3, 2008: 2-6
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