This has become a big rivalry game to us. To me, AU has jumped way ahead of Bama. Judging by what has been posted on here from AU's messageboards, I can't say that they even think we are really in the SEC conference.
Plus our coaches and players are the only ones in this game that have any emotional baggage coming in...We feel like we have something to prove,...AU? not so much. They have gotten basically everything things that could have asked for recently.
I'm actually pretty glad that AU squeaked it out last week. If they had lost, then they would be looking to avenge and embarrassing loss. But by actually winning, they don't have that urgency. My only worry for this game is something that I rarely experience, its "I hope we don't have a bad game". Usually in a game like this (usually we suck), my worrying for the game is "Damn, we are gonna have to play 'out of our asses' just to have a chance." I think if we just play par football for us, then we are taking a knee at the end of the game.
I feel also think we might have a rivalry on our hands the likes of OM/LSU .... except we are pretty good and AU is NOT LSU. But we have the same chip on our shoulder towards AU that OM does for LSU... and AU's undeserved cockiness amazingly trumps any Corndog pride. They have ZERO reason to "overlook" us, but I think they actually will to a certain degree.