iron bowl
Thanks to some great stats from cfbstats.com, we know Alabama enters the Iron Bowl with a decided advantage in field position. [1]
There are few people in the state who have not committed to one school or the other for the Iron Bowl, so named for its traditional Birmingham home and birthplace. [2]
Wright, who now runs a ministry in his name and is the head coach and athletics director at San Jacinto Christian Academy in Amarillo, Texas, remembers the intensity of the first Iron Bowl played in Auburn. [3]
The Iron Bowl is a common name for the annual college football game between the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn University Tigers. [4]
The Tigers’ right tackle knows the reality facing his boyhood team going into Friday’s visit by No. 2 Alabama, a double-digit favorite to win its second straight Iron Bowl. [5]
It’s been a while since there was a great finish in the Iron Bowl. [6]
The general refrain that we hear this time of year is that when the Iron Bowl rolls around, anything can happen and you can effectively throw out the record books. [7]
Javier Arenas, the sixth-leading punt returner in the country, gives Alabama a decided advantage over Auburn in field position. [1]
The Alabama and Auburn football programs were less than a year old when the schools staged the first game of what was to become the most intense intrastate college rivalry in the nation. [2]
On Friday, Auburn fans hope to re-live 1989. [3]
Alabama faces No. 1 Florida in the SEC championship game next week, with the winner securing a shot at the national title. [5]
Alabama is dramatically shifting field position with its special teams and defense. [6]
– Andrew McCain grew up pulling for Auburn, just like the rest of his family. [5]
Alabama head coach Bill Curry and Auburn’s Pat Dye talk before the start of the 1989 Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare Stadium. [3]
That game will live forever in Auburn lore, and in many ways for good reason, but a major upset it was not. [7]
Sources:
[1] Iron Bowl analysis: The importance of field position …
[2] IRON BOWL HISTORY
[3] Iron Bowl 2009: There are parallels aplenty to the 1989 Iron …
[4] Iron Bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] No. 2 Alabama trying for another Iron Bowl win - Associated …
[6] Iron Bowl.com
[7] Iron Bowl Upsets: Fact or Fiction? - Roll ‘Bama Roll