My Take on The 07 Former Peach Bowl

* My Dad called me last Saturday night with a free ticket. Hmmmmm....let me think about it...ABSOLUTELY I'll go!

* I am absolutely shocked that we ran our new offense. We only had a few days to implement it. I thought we would run our normal offense and mix in a few new plays. Props to Tony Franklin (new offensive coordinator) and the players. They got it done. (I guess when you are 101st in offense out of 119 teams...you make the change as quickly as possible.)

* Jeff Francoeur of the Atlanta Braves led the Invocation. Yeah, you heard me right, they had an Invocation at a Bowl Game. 2 quick thoughts: This would only happen at a Bowl Game sponsored by Chick-Fil-A. Also, it wasn't a fru-fru prayer. Very heartfelt, seemed genuine...and he closed with "...and we pray all these things in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen." Cool stuff. My thoughts on the prayer are this: I'm not real big on Christians who spend (waste) a lot of time trying to force non believers to do Christian things. That's not what they were doing last night...I'm just saying, some Christians would view last night as, "Ha, yeah, we showed them. We showed all those liberals! We had prayer before a ballgame. Booyah!" Semi-related: I'll probably never boycott Disney, for any reason. On the other hand, I thought the prayer was special. It was great to see a great organization like Chick-Fil-A simply acting out their beliefs (they give tons of money away to great causes) and not being overly affected by our politically correct society.

* Clemson fans are great. No qualms with them at all. Going in to the game I had heard they were a classy bunch, and they showed it last night. (Even the hundreds of students who visited the beer stand a little too much.)

* Kodi Burns (Freshman quarterback) will be fun to watch in our new offense next year.

* Over the past 8 years, LSU & Auburn have the best records in the SEC. Those who have problems with Tuberville should keep that in mind. (And Tuberville actually cares about his players graduating and becoming men of integrity too.)

* AU's senior class this year was only the 2nd senior class to win 50 games at Auburn.

* This year was the 40th anniversary of the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.

* First time in the Bowl's history there was an overtime.

* Sat on the 13 yard line, 4 sections over from the Clemson Band.

* Special thanks to my wife for allowing me to go. :-)

Updated:
Auburn’s 423 yards in total offense was the highest total for the season. Not a bad start for Auburn’s new offensive coordinator. It was the most yards gained against Clemson all season, which came into the game as the No. 6 rated defense in the country. (Thanks to StatTiger at AUnation.net)