Drive charts

As always, these are courtesy of Joel's magic thingamajig at Rocky Top Talk. First, the pain: this is Auburn's performance against Tennessee Saturday. Note how the entire chart lists to the right as the game progresses:


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I figure it's unfair to show that to you, though, without offering a little bit of the bright side as well. The Auburn offense was just as bad in the early part of last year, and then, as you'll recall, they did this against Florida:


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Notice how friggin' quickly time expires in the first half after those two long touchdown drives. That kind of TOP is mmmm, mmmm good, and I maintain if it wasn't out of the question for the 2007 Auburn offense to do that it's not out of the question for the 2008 Auburn offense to do the same to the heavy-hitters remaining on the schedule, Vandy included. They did it once to Tennessee, twice to LSU, and if they can keep the penalties down, they're bound to start doing it more often. I think.

And while we're here, just for fun, let's relive the good old offensive days. This is the 2005 Georgia game:


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and here's the 2004 Tennessee regular-season game:


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We've come a long way, unfortunately. And what the hell, for something not-quite-completely different--it's still a fond memory, save for the drive to the 9-yard line followed by the V****n miss--here's 2006 LSU:


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