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Auburn Football: What about that other team in Alabama?

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 8:01 p.m. ET

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Auburn football is attempting to prove that the Crimson Tide aren't the only program playing well in the state of Alabama.

As we close in in the start of the college football season, the same question is being asked in Auburn, Alabama that's being asked everywhere else a major football program exists. Auburn Tigers fans are wanting to know how good their team can be in 2017. Everything about this year, as it is every football season , is one long precursor to the next "Iron Bowl"

In the last ten times this game has, there's been a pretty noticeable trend. The Tigers have normally had their measure taken by their cross-state rivals, the Alabama Crimson Tide. Each time there's been an exception, there's been no lack of drama involved.

Every college football fan will remember the Tigers' comeback victory in 2010 that spearheaded their charge to a BCS National Championship. There was a seven-point victory three years earlier. Still, one of the most exciting moments in this yearly clash came in 2013. We've found a clip from TrueColors. Check out their YouTube page by clicking here.

Take a moment a relive that night.

With less than 110 days remaining until the college football season begins, the Auburn fan base had no problem reminding their biggest adversaries of that day.

What's next?

Recently it's been by former Tigers coach Pat Dye that Auburn and the Missouri Tigers should switch divisions. While that's probably not going to happen, it continues a debate that's gone on for quite some time, the imbalance of power in the SEC. Most of that is due to the machine that Nick Saban's built in Tuscaloosa.

Alabama holds an edge in the "Iron Bowl" by a count of 45-35-1. The next clash is scheduled for November 25th. The Crimson Tide will probably be figured to win that one, but this should serve as a litmus test for program that was ended up on the wrong side of a three-point loss in the BCS National Championship Game in 2013.

They haven't come close to that measure of success since, but landing a recruiting class that 247Sports.com sees as the ninth-best in the nation has fans excited. If Auburn wants to be seen as something other than that other team in Alabama, they'll need to take it one step at a time. They have the support of some of the nation's best fans. They have an offensive genius in Gus Malzahn as head coach.

One or two breaks could change the course of this program entirely.