Auburn fans evoke Gus Malzahn, Tommy Tuberville to dispel PFF’s false Nick Saban stat
In the hoopla of Alabama’s Cotton Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats–aka the first Group of Five program to ever crash the College Football Playoff party–PFF tweeted out a false stat about Nick Saban’s dominance…and Auburn football fans were out in full force shutting down the falsehoods.
According to PFF, Saban is 36-0 against coaches in first-time meetings.
Apparently, they ignored the Iron Bowl’s not-so-distant history in the process of coming up with yet another way to glamorize the Tide’s head coach’s current run.
Auburn football fans did their thing on an app that every vanquished basketball program by Bruce Pearl’s Tigers knows is one dominated by the orange and blue:
Two Auburn coaches did that exact thing. Try again.
— Chapd (@chapelmcc) January 1, 2022
This is wrong. LSU lost to Auburn in 2000 and in 2013 lost to Auburn
— Jet7111 (@jet7111) January 1, 2022
Why is this obviously false tweet still up? https://t.co/3ywfjKG5Br
— Justin Hokanson (@_JHokanson) January 1, 2022
Check out this stat @PFF_College made up. https://t.co/aFXULNkd4D
— Kurt CoBarner 🦚 (@KurtCobarner) January 1, 2022
Even fans of other schools felt the need to remind PFF about the list of losses that should have been included in their Saban stat:
Umm… no he’s not lol.
— Brandon Quinlan (@BQ_Sports) January 1, 2022
Bowden, Les Miles both beat him in 07
Whittingham in 08
Kevin Sumlin slapped him around in 2012.
Malzahn beat him his 1st year at Auburn.
Those are just his losses at Bama when playing a coach for the first time. Y’all just makin stuff up now?
So, while Saban leading Alabama to yet another title game during an era of the CFP where the Tide missed the final four just once is supremely impressive, fake stats don’t need to be created to pump it up even more.