Alabama can lock up another 10-win season. Auburn is targeting bowl eligibility and a happy ending to a trying season.
But this Iron Bowl, more than most in recent memory, is primarily about the year's worth of bragging rights that comes with a win. Typically, that's enough.
Important to fans and to players' legacies and offseason moods. It's just for statewide supremacy not national title hopes like it has been for both programs multiple times in the last 15 years or so. Williams, the hero of the 2003 Iron Bowl for Auburn, doesn't think he needs a “magical speech” to get his team up for this one. But he has had the Tigers playing better lately.
“I haven’t thought about anything in the future,” Young said. “All I care about now is this program.”Auburn’s Tank Bigsby and Jarquez Hunter have both topped 100 rushing yards in each of the past two games. Quarterback Robby Ashford is actually the Tigers’ No. 2 runner.
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