{"id":419587,"date":"2017-12-08T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=419587"},"modified":"2017-12-08T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:43:00","slug":"auburns-late-season-scheduling-is-a-double-edged-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/auburns-late-season-scheduling-is-a-double-edged-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn&#8217;s late-season scheduling is a double-edged sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NutsBolts-12-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-419599\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NutsBolts-12-8-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The SEC has got to do something about the uneven Auburn football schedule.<br \/>\nThis necessity should be obvious, whether you\u2019re a die-hard Auburn fan or a member of the I\u2019m-for-anybody-who-plays Auburn crowd.<br \/>\nThis season was the perfect storm for why a change has to be made. Look at the Tigers\u2019 slate since November 11. They faced four opponents with a combined record of 43-1 when they faced Auburn &#8212; and that one loss was by Georgia in its first meeting with Auburn.<br \/>\nThe Tigers beat Georgia and Alabama at Jordan-Hare Stadium to get within one win of the college football playoff. They then lost to one-loss Georgia and will play undefeated Central Florida on January 1.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s plenty of talent coming back for Auburn next year, but it may not matter. That\u2019s because Auburn will play two of its final three regular-season games at Georgia and at Alabama. Neither team even came close to losing at home this year, and there\u2019s no indication that next year will be any different.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not advocating that Auburn drop Georgia from its annual schedule. I\u2019m not even sure that moving one of those games to earlier in the season is the right answer.<br \/>\nBut I do know that having both Georgia and Alabama at home or on the road in the same season is too much of a burden or advantage for one team down the stretch.<br \/>\nFor Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m Randy Kennedy with Nuts and Bolts of the Game.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-419587-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NutsBolts120817.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NutsBolts120817.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NutsBolts120817.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The SEC has got to do something about the uneven Auburn football schedule. This necessity should be obvious, whether you\u2019re a die-hard Auburn fan or <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/auburns-late-season-scheduling-is-a-double-edged-sword\/\" title=\"Auburn&#8217;s late-season scheduling is a double-edged sword\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-419587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuts-and-bolts","7":"category-on-the-air","8":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419600,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419587\/revisions\/419600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}