{"id":192,"date":"2013-11-25T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/?p=192"},"modified":"2014-01-13T10:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:59:56","slug":"2013-college-football-pool-week-13-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/2013-college-football-pool-week-13-results\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 College Football Pool – Week 13 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"e-systems_football_logo\"Okay. I could go on and on about the big results in college football this past week. I could write about the tremendous offensive juggernauts of Baylor, Oregon, and Texas A&M getting handcuffed by Oklahoma State, Arizona, and LSU respectively. I could mention how Duke is playing for a chance to win a conference championship, or how Florida became the first I-A school to lose to a team that failed to complete a forward pass, or how Vanderbilt won against Tennessee in a way that they\u2019ve seemingly lost so many games before. But this is the biggest Iron Bowl in my lifetime, and this email does originate from the state of Alabama, after all. So here\u2019s a first: the all-Iron Bowl special.<\/p>\n

The Iron Bowl was first played in 1893. That game, a 32-22 Auburn win, is called the last game of the 1892 Alabama season, but the first game of the 1893 Auburn season. Why? Because the teams played the game on February 22, 1893. To this day, it remains the only game Alabama has ever played in February (Auburn played one against Georgia in 1892, but I believe that this game is the only other one). This game is the 78th in the series; Alabama currently holds a 42-34-1 edge. The lone tie was in 1907, a 6-6 game which was the last time the schools would play each other for 41 years. As one or both of the schools did not field teams in 1918 and 1943, if the teams had played during this time, this would have been the 116th meeting between the schools, which would tie for the 8th-most played game in I-A.<\/p>\n

So why wasn\u2019t it played during 1908-1947? At first, the schools couldn\u2019t decide on how much the per diem<\/em> should be for the players, or from where the officials for the game should come. Every so often, the schools would consider playing again, but nothing came of it. It actually took the state government threatening to withhold funding from the two schools for them to agree to play again (state of Texas, take note: you\u2019d have historic precedent!). So the presidents of the respective universities came together in the spring of 1948 and literally buried a hatchet in Birmingham, and the game was back on. Alabama won that 1948 game 55-0. It still marks the biggest victory in the series. Auburn promptly came back in 1949, and as a team with a 1-4-3 record coming into the game, upset 6-2-1 Alabama 14-13.<\/p>\n

The game gets its name from Birmingham\u2019s role at the time as a center for iron and steel production. However, the teams don\u2019t actually play for an iron bowl as the trophy, as appropriate as that would be. Instead, the trophy is the James E. Foy V-ODK Sportsmanship Award (that\u2019s a mouthful). Named after a former Alabama graduate and Auburn dean of students, it holds a somewhat unique distinction among rivalry trophies in that it isn\u2019t given to the winner on the day of the game. Rather, it is presented to the winning school on the date of their home basketball game against the losing school.<\/p>\n

This is only the second Iron Bowl in history to feature two top-5 teams. The other was in 1971, when 10-0 Alabama was ranked #3 and 9-0 Auburn #5. With #1 Nebraska having beaten #2 Oklahoma two days prior, the winner of the game was bound to play the Cornhuskers for the national title in the Orange Bowl. Alabama had Johnny Musso; Auburn had Pat Sullivan. Alabama won 31-7. Auburn got a measure of revenge the next year, as the #9 Tigers beat #2 Alabama in the famous \u201cPunt Bama Punt\u201d game, 17-16.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see. What else is there to know? Alabama and Auburn fans probably already know what games I\u2019m talking about when I mention \u201cThe Run in the Mud\u201d, \u201cBo Over the Top\u201d, \u201cWrong Way Bo\u201d, \u201cThe Kick\u201d, \u201cThe First Time in Jordan-Hare\u201d, \u201cHonk if you Sacked Brodie\u201d, \u201cOne for the Thumb\u201d, \u201cThe Beatdown in T-Town\u201d, \u201cThe Drive\u201d, or \u201cThe Cam-back\u201d. This game has a storied and unique history in all of college football. It was recently ranked the third-biggest rivalry in college football behind Army-Navy and Michigan-Ohio State. Most fans on either side would tell you that\u2019s two ranks too low. Whether you wear crimson and white or orange and blue, or even if you\u2019re not a fan of either but a fan of college football in general, it represents one of the can\u2019t-miss games of the year, and this year raises the stakes even higher: the SEC West, the SEC, and even the national titles are all potentially on the line. At 2:30 PM this Saturday, the state will stop to watch. I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to BamaHouGirl<\/strong>, who takes the week 13 title with 179 points! She wins a tie-breaker over Rocky Tide<\/strong> and Pachyderm<\/strong>. Both bamaken<\/strong> and JagRag<\/strong> were one point behind with 178 points.<\/p>\n

Standings after 13 weeks (dropping \u201ctwo worst\u201d weeks):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1st<\/td>\nAUBrian<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2nd<\/td>\nPachyderm<\/td>\n1995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3rd<\/td>\nmaestro<\/td>\n1984<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4th<\/td>\nbamaken<\/td>\n1976<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5th<\/td>\nBEVO<\/td>\n1964<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6th<\/td>\nCrimson Gator<\/td>\n1951<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7th<\/td>\nBritanniaTex<\/td>\n1945<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8th<\/td>\nAllison<\/td>\n1940<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9th<\/td>\nThe Tradition<\/td>\n1930<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10th<\/td>\nDirtyDiaperSlinger<\/td>\n1924<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The race has tightened up a bit! With 18 games, this week is your last chance to improve your position and stake your own bragging rights, so pick wisely and well! Thanks to more late-season #MACtion<\/span>, the first game this week is Western Michigan at Northern Illinois, Tuesday, November 26 @ 7PM ET<\/strong>, so make sure to get your picks in by then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay. I could go on and on about the big results in college football this past week. I could write about the tremendous offensive juggernauts of Baylor, Oregon, and Texas A&M getting handcuffed by Oklahoma State, Arizona, and LSU respectively. I could mention how Duke is playing for a chance to win a conference championship, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}