I would disagree with this completely. Lockett is a sub 4.4 guy and can run with anyone in the country. He is a senior who has been around the block and win or lose will be a handful for the suspect Auburn secondary. Waters is a 4.5 guy who weighs in around 220-225 and his mobility should be an issue for Auburn. Burton has 4.4 speed on the outside, but the Wildcats don’t have much speed in the backfield. Speed doesn’t always equal talent or success, but to suggest the Wildcats are slow is completely inaccurate. I’ll admit I didn’t see the Iowa State game, so if they struggled with speed there I would assume it was an anomaly. I’m not suggesting Kansas State is comparable to Auburn in terms of speed or athleticism, but this isn’t some second tier program completely lacking in athleticism either.
In the recent past, Kansas State has specialized in knocking high powered up tempo offenses off their game. I’ll be very curious to see if they have the horses to do this to Auburn in this matchup. Snyder is a mastermind, but there may just not be enough in the tank in terms of talent for the Wildcats. We will see….
As for the books collecting Kansas State money, sure you will have some playing the home dog, backing the strong historical dog, etc., but they will be outnumbered seven-eight to one with the public love affair with Auburn. They have been a covering machine, are an SEC team playing out of conference and went to the championship last year. They are the epitome of a public side and every Joe around the block remembers what they did for them last year and will back them on a nationally televised game, which will be the only show in town.
That being said, I’m likely on the sidelines for this one.
Best of luck with whatever you decide.
This game has the smell of one of those 7-10 point win...So which is it, is Auburn is the best team in college football, or is Snyder the football whisperer? I guess we'll find out Thursday night. I'll probably just sit back and watch this one. Although i do kind of like the over. Whatever that may be...
Yes, my local has it pegged on -11 so I played k state for now and trying to decide whether to play the middle with another out in s car or let it ride. Actually talked to my local guy today and he asked me if I wanted to get anymore k state since he was already so lopsided that he was going to lay some off and wanted to know if I would hold some.
I was thinking K St 1st half Auburn 2nd half (a fav way 4 me to play a TV Game either way) I see Snyder cleverly staying close or even a small lead early and then Auburns Superior talent pulling away in the 2nd half. Winning by 10 or so ?? Or maybe just pass and Watch Atlanta win over TB by 14. LOL
I'm not getting anywhere near this game, but I just want to see how far Auburn has come from last year. By all rights (on paper) Auburn should easily win this game. But last year Auburn was never favored on the road over a winning program. Their two road favorite games consisted of Arkansas and Tennessee, who had a combined record of 8-16. In their other games they were dogs of +17 and +14. They also had the rare regular season schedule of having just 4 true road games. So everything pretty much went their way in the way that their schedule set up for them LY. And I agree with the posters above that KSU hasn't been so good in recent years against top 10 teams. But as far as playing at home, since Snyder had finally gotten this team back on track from the Prince era in the last 3 years, KSU has failed to cover just one game as an actual dog at home. And that was against OU in 2011. Last year OU beat them again at home, but the Sooners were 5 point dogs in that game. But as we all found out, OU caught fire at the end of the season and won out.
