Auburn football: 5 burning questions heading into Saturday’s LSU game

After avoiding calamity last weekend at home against Georgia State, Auburn football looks to start off conference play with a victory Saturday night in Death Valley against LSU.

AU comes into the late matchup (8 pm central start time) with a chance to right the ship after their worst performance of the season against a middling Sun Belt team that actually held a lead with under a minute left.

Needless to say, the season was saved by TJ Finley, but the Panthers were supposed to be the final tune-up before a brutal stretch (at LSU, Georgia, at Arkansas) before their bye week.

A win at Tigers Stadium would likely propel Auburn football into the top 15 heading into one of the season’s marquee matchups, The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry game. A loss would open the door for the possibility of a losing record heading into the bye week.

How will this shake out? Well, FWE can’t answer that at this time…but we can (and are going to) ask the most burning questions before kickoff:

Burning question #1 for Auburn football: Does the Death Valley win drought finally end?

College football is all about tradition. You have ‘El Assico’ being an annually ugly scrap between Iowa and Iowa State. And the yearly expectation that Army football is going to run the ball all game, every game.

As for fan traditions, Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium has ‘Jump Around’, Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium has ‘Enter Sandman’, and Bryant-Denny Stadium has ‘Dixieland Delight’ (gross).

Jordan-Hare Stadium has no less than five pregame traditions, but Auburn Tiger fans also have a biennial celebration that needs to stop: losing in Baton Rouge.

1999 was the last time the orange and blue reigned supreme on the Bayou. Does that change on Saturday?