This is an opinion column. ___________________ Two days later and Alabama’s historic loss to Vanderbilt remains tough to digest. For Auburn, things are somehow even less palatable after loss number eight in a row to rival Georgia.

"Those are the things that really hurt you, because they kept the drive alive and then ended up scoring a touchdown," DeBoer said. "Just that hump that we couldn't get over with a lot of the game. And that was the early one."