Gus Malzahn has been an SEC stable for the last eight seasons at Auburn. He was one of the few coaches who has been mildly successful record against Alabama’s Nick Saban. But a lot of his top accomplishments happened early in his tenure with the Tigers. His teams had fallen back into the SEC’s middle… Read More
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