2006 alabama auburn game

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I eventually felt like that was the best thing to do. The Tide outgained Auburn , but also had three fumbles and the interception in yet another close loss to a ranked team. Alabama had the ball at its 41 with to play and no timeouts.

Wilson completed a short pass across the middle to Stover -- who had a yard touchdown earlier -- but Irons picked off his next attempt downfield with left. Alabama finished the regular season against ranked teams -- all of them fairly close -- though this was the first of those games at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

The losses against Auburn especially have brought heat to Shula, but Wilson said the Tide players are "behind him in every way. Tide players had fumed all week over photos of Auburn players and Tuberville waving four fingers after last year's game and appearing at the bowl game in a "Fear the Thumb" T-shirt.

That slogan became popular with Auburn fans and a symbol of Alabama's frustrations. We came out and did it on the field. Cox finished just 6-of for yards, 97 of them coming in the third quarter. Intercepted four times last week in a loss to Georgia, his first five passes fell incomplete.

The Tigers used two big pass plays from Cox to retake the lead with left in the third. He hit fullback Carl Stewart for a yard gain down the left sidelines then lofted the pass to Rodriguez in the end zone. Little did they know on that February day in , but those 5, people at Lakeview Park in Birmingham saw the first ever meeting in one of the great rivalries in world sports.

Auburn went away with it, beating the Crimson Tide, , in what it said was the first game of the season.

Alabama disagreed, calling it the season finale for From the start, there was a dispute. That motion failed, but that same year, the football rivalry took it up a notch, too. For two generations, the schools glared at each other from opposite sides of the state. There are a few theories as to why. One is that there was too much violence at the game — both on and off the field — that the series was called off simply to preserve the peace.

Alabama refused. Auburn said no, and months of back and forth ensued, an argument that lasted so long that by the time any kind of settlement could be reached, it was already time to set the football schedule. That year, both sides attempted to reinstate the series — all they had to do was come up with a date. Okay — all good then, right? Well, no. Auburn proposed four dates to choose from for the game. But two of those dates passed before Alabama even replied, leaving two — one of which the Tide had already set to play Haskell Institute; the other coming the Saturday after Thanksgiving.