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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2472898, member: 488"] Arizona is the one game I circled on the calendar before the year as a sure-fire loss. Even when they played Michigan State I gave them a puncher's chance, but to handle Ayton, Trier and company in that building with a patch work roster is looking like a fantasy at this point. Granted, they have looked a lot more mortal than I expected - even beyond the three game tail-spin in Atlantis, and even with Atkins back, they haven't been a juggernaut. Alabama took them to the wire the other night. Still, Alabama is a lot better than us and I'd be surprised if we keep it within ten. I actually think, assuming Auburn turns out to be a top 50 team, that the committee does look at 1-2 as a success. It'll be losing handily to beatable Arkansas/Syracuse teams at neutral venues that will come back to haunt us. [/QUOTE]