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ok i think its fair to say that auburn is a better team now than they were in the first part of the season. BUT how scary is this...Auburn is starting 9 freshman ( not including the kicker )

Every team improves over the course of a season not just Auburn

ok then your talking about a 40 point improvement cause they went from lookin like dead weight to a team in contention for the west

yes auburn has improved but UCF still beat them and yes that says allot when they have beaten three other top 25 teams in the nation not even lsu ou bosten college has done what they have this year give ucf props bro I beleive ucf is for real until someone knockes them off oh look at the bcs rankings oooooohh they are nasty

the point is that USF's win was elite not how much auburn has improved.

Neither Florida (in their loss) nor USF should treat their respective games against Auburn as an elite game. Auburn started the year 1-2 and not in the top 25 and if not for a 2minute miracle of scoring 14 pts in a crazy finish would have been 0-3 including losing to the doormat of the SEC Mississippi State. A team can improve and good for them but at the time the games were played Auburn was a mediocre to poor team

Let me guess.....Long time Auburn fan ?

Don't call USF UCF that is insulting.

Long time college football fan

I think, in case you missed it, people are more or less celebrating a team like USF becoming a known football team, and possibly a powerhouse. It wasn't long ago that USF didn't even have a football program. Look at them now -- that's what people are talking about. Auburn just happens to be one of their biggest wins.

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There is improvement by a team and then there is improvement like cutting out tons of turnovers and sacks. This is why we have human perspective because a computer doesn???t see the difference of a win early in the season compared to later.

In week 2, who the f was USF to the rest of the country compared to well known Auburn? Enough said.

Cassidy's House
How does your comment relate to my argument?
Plus people were picking USF to win the game.

USF beat Auburn
OSU beat Purdue
BC beat GT
Cal beat Oregon
LSU beat a 1 loss FLA team

Appears to be a big win when compared to the above.

Purdue is garbage and GT is too inconsistent

Oregon and UF have played well the whole year. I would contend that the Purdue (what good teams has Purdue contended with) and GT wins are not elite wins also. The fact of the matter is people are acting like Auburn was playing the same level of football for seven straight weeks when it is obvious they had an enormous amount of improvement. Teams are expected to improve, but how can people be ready to write Auburn off at the beginning of the season because they couldn???t play offense and then all the sudden they forget how horrible they played when they became a little more consistent and stopped giving up so many sacks and turnovers. Yes USF gets credit for the win because they went in and beat an elite program on the road, but you can???t say it is an ok(in the sense of beating an average team) win at the time after Auburn goes and loses again to Miss St extending a three week stretch of bad football. Everyone then makes it an elite win when Auburn finally shows some life with a young offense over the last 4 weeks. If people are going to make the case that USF is a powerhouse this year you can???t make elite wins in terms of your seasonal resume wins over average teams with elite names.

Anytime an unranked team comes into a ranked team's stadium (especially in the SEC) and wins rather handily is an elite win.

Fine then call it whatever you want. But out of the undefeated teams, USF wins over WVU and AU look a heck of lot better than....

1. BC over....GT, Wake, or NC State
2. KU over....C Mich, SE La, Toledo, FIU, KSU, and Baylor
3. OSU over.... Youngstown, Aron, WU, NW, Minn, Purdue
4. ASU over... SJSU, CU, SDSU, OR State, Stanford, WSU, and Wash
5. Hawaii and their bottom feeder schedule

So out of all teams the undefeated teams have beaten, name ONE team that you would put against Auburn and be certain of a Tiger loss. GT? Hardly a lock.

Don't call it elite if you want to but I think its fair to say that out of the undefeated teams, USF has the two biggest wins.

Just a Fan,
Will you be singing the same tune if Auburn beats LSU this week? Would have figured that a SEC fan would know better than to dismiss a SEC opponent on game week....

While Auburn was (is) totally overrated... and the SEC is totally overrated... Dunson gets this one. Any fan of any SEC team would tout a win over Auburn as the greatest accomplishment since the Cairo Pyramids.