The Question Is: How Will Alabama’s D Work Against the Spread?

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by Dan Rutledge

With Florida and Alabama already penciled in against each other in the BCS national semifinal game, also known as the SEC championship game, the rest of the league teams will fight it out for bowl bids in the last two weeks of the regular season.

The Week 11 schedule has five conference games on tap, with two non-conference matchups as well. Four teams can claim that magical sixth victory that makes them bowl eligible – Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas.

The tangle between the hedges in Athens between visiting Auburn and Georgia (Line: Georgia by 5) is big bowl-wise for both teams involved. For Georgia (5-4 ,3-3), a win would send them bowling somewhere. For Auburn (7-3, 3-3), a victory would give them the opportunity, as an eight-win team, to end its season in Dallas playing in the new Cowboys Stadium in the Cotton Bowl. That’s pretty heady stuff for a team that didn’t go bowling anywhere last season and to whose fans a spot in the Liberty Bowl or Music City Bowl would have sounded great before the season began.

For Auburn Saturday, it’s a question of which AU team shows up — the one that ran roughshod over opponents early in the season or the team that mysteriously misplaced its offense during a three-game losing streak.

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