Prior to the season, If you would have told any rational Auburn fan or even most returning players that they would be playing for the 2013 national title, I think most would have been skeptical at best. There was excitement within the football program at the University of Auburn last off-season when they hired Gus Malzahn as their head coach. Malzahn had been instrumental in Auburn’s success during the 2010 National Title season. But the team had only won 3 games in 2012 and was winless in the SEC. To take a winless conference team and win the conference title and play for a national title the very next year would be implausible for even the most fanatical fan.Florida State also found renewed success under the leadership of head coach Jimbo Fisher. In his first year as head coach, the Seminoles reached the ACC title game for the first time since 2003 and four seasons later he
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