Auburn gets finals chance to state its BCS case
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ATLANTA - &quot;Winning isn&#39;t everything; it&#39;s the only thing,&quot; coach Vince Lombardi reportedly said while directing the Green Bay Packers to two Super Bowl titles in the late 1960s.
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First it was the entire Auburn football team. Now it&#39;s the starting quarterback, the team and league MVP. It was bad enough that the Bowl Championship Series denied Auburn a spot in the Orange Bowl.
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Editor&#39;s note: Even before the Associated Press told Bowl Championship Series officials not to include the AP poll in its calculations any longer, the arguments over how to determine a national college football champion have raged.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- After years of inexplicable meltdowns in high-profile games, Auburn came to Tennessee on Saturday with hopes of resurrecting its image.
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â¢No. 3 Auburn 38, No. 15 Tennessee 28:Auburn will probably have to be content with a Southeastern Conference championship. The Tigers aren&#39;t likely to get a shot at the title they want most.
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Baton Rouge, LA (U-WIRE) -- This is it, the last slate of games before the bowl season kicks off. The big games to watch will be the Big XII and SEC Championship games, with Auburn and Oklahoma both looking to get in the Orange Bowl to face USC.
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Oklahomaâs hold on second place in the Bowl Championship Series standings is getting more precarious by the week. Auburn more than halved its deficit to the Sooners for the all-important second spot in the latest BCS rankings released Monday.
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Impossible. Inconceivable. A Southeastern Conference team is in position to go 12-0 and get locked out of the national championship game.
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If theyâd lost a game, they would understand. If they hadnât won their conference championship game, they wouldnât argue. If theyâd even ever really struggled to win, they could see being left out on the championship picture.
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Despite an impressive win over Georgia on Saturday, undefeated Auburn remains third in the latest BCS standings behind Southern California and Oklahoma.
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The new Bowl Championship Series formula was supposed to put the power back into the pollsters&#39; hands. But when the inaugural BCS standings came out Monday, the No.
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PHILADELPHIA (Sports Network) - Southern California and  Oklahoma again remained the top teams in the Bowl Championship  Series standings, while Auburn is still third and on the  outside looking in at the national championship game.
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AUBURN - Auburn is ranked fourth in the first Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings released today. Southern California is the top-ranked team followed by Miami, Oklahoma and Auburn.
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PHILADELPHIA (Sports Network) - Southern California and  Oklahoma remained the top two teams in the Bowl Championship  Series standings, while Auburn is still No. 3 but closing in on  the coveted second slot.
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AUBURN, Alabama The caretakers of the Bowl Championship Series - the commissioners of six NCAA Division IA conferences and a committee of presidents from those colleges - massage and tweak the BCS from year to year, but they cannot seem to dodge
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JaMarcus Russell and LSU cleared another contender from the national title picture and just might have added one more big game to their already brutal road schedule &#151; this time in the BCS. The Tigers will gladly accept a trip like that, and after taking out No. 5 Arkansas, they feel they have a pretty good resume.
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Southern California and Oklahoma are still the top teams in the Bowl Championship Series standings, while Auburn remained third and on the outside looking in at the national championship game with one week remaining in