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The Final Run: The BCS Is Going Out With A Bang!

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NEW YORK – (December 11, 2013) Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston and Auburn cornerback Ryan White, who appear on the national cover of this week’s SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (12/16/13), are on a collision course for the BCS championship. The Seminoles and the Tigers will play in the national title game on Jan. 6 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, and it is the right matchup in every way says SI senior writer Michael Rosenberg. In the final year of the BCS as college football’s top postseason format, the Seminoles (13–0) finished atop the standings for the first time since 1999 and were the only team to get through the regular season unbeaten. Auburn (12–1) won the vaunted Southeastern Conference by running from last place in 2012 to first place with their shoelaces on fire. Writes Rosenberg, “Florida State has been the sport’s dominant team, but Auburn represents the sport’s dominant conference, which has won seven straight national championships and wants you to know it. SEC fans chant ‘S-E-C!’ after every bowl win, and probably after most church functions—an a cappella version of ‘Seven Nation Army,’ the sports background music that most of America wants to turn off but can’t.”(Page 49)

Senior writer Lars Anderson makes the case for Auburn winning their second national championship in four years, writing, “The key player in Auburn’s transformation from a 3–9 team in 2012 to a 12–1 squad has been quarterback Nick Marshall, a 6’ 1”, 210-pound junior who spent last season in the hinterlands of the Kansas prairie at Garden City Community College. Marshall has led fourth-quarter comebacks against Mississippi State, Texas A&M, Georgia and Alabama, and he’s infused the program with confidence. Auburn, remarkably, is peaking when it matters most, which is why this team of magic and joy and video-game fun will keep the national title in the state of Alabama for the fifth straight year.” (Page 51)

 


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