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In the End, 2016 Will be Viewed as a Successful Season for Auburn Football
Here we give our reasons why the 2016 Auburn football season will be viewed as a successful one based on how people thought the Tigers would do entering the season.
Coming into the 2016 Auburn football season, many people – including myself – said Gus Malzahn needs to reach eight wins for this to be a successful season.
Baring a major upset this Saturday, Auburn football will indeed finish with eight wins and have a chance for more with two more games to follow.
After starting the season 1-2 things looked very gloomy for Auburn football. Then we found our identity on offense and reeled off six straight wins, setting us up for a chance to play in the SEC Championship game.
Entering this season, had you told me that in week 11 Auburn would control its own destiny in the SEC West and College Football Playoff I would have taken that all day.
The fact is this football team kept our hopes alive much longer than anyone thought possible when the season started.
We posted an article a couple of weeks ago on whether or not this Auburn football team would be great, good or mediocre.
A loss to Georgia certainly makes this team more mediocre than good, but if you look at the season as a whole, I think most would consider it a good season.
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But that’s not what Auburn fans are feeling today. We live in the here-and-now, and the fact of the matter is we should have destroyed Georgia on Saturday. We should be getting prepared to win the SEC West and play for an SEC Championship. We should be getting ready to see if the College Football Playoff committee puts us in the top four.
You can make all the excuses in the world for why that’s not the case today, but now none of those things are happening and it stings.
Trying to refocus, Auburn football now has a chance to heal and get ready to upset the number one team in the country and their bitter rival Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
If they can win those two games Auburn football fans will consider this a great season once again – although that Georgia game may sting even more at that point.
Then we would have a chance to win 10 games with a bowl win, which would probably be in a huge bowl game.
Even if we lose to Alabama, which is what will happen if we play like we have the past two games, then we’ll have a shot at a good bowl game and a 9-win season.
It’s hard to view this season as anything but a disaster right now after that embarrassing loss to Georgia, but when you look at the 2016 season as a whole it has to be a success.
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