FSU should laugh at Auburn's pathetic attempt to claim the 1993 National title

What in the name of UCF is Auburn trying to do? 

I guess claiming fake national championships is a tradition like no other in the state of Alabama. But keep your hands and fake records off of 1993, that title belongs to FSU. 

When the Knights decided to claim a "national championship" in 2017, it was met with a lot of mockery outside of Orlando. But it was also easily dismissed because UCF was in the American Conference, they weren't really a big player in the college football game, and it was being done for promotional reasons.

But this is Auburn. A storied SEC program (allegedly) that actually has some real history to stand on. Auburn Tigers fans, and thank God I'm not one of them, should be embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for them. 

If Auburn wants the 1993 National Championship, come get it

As I look through these brand-new national championship years that Auburn is claiming, I'll let Miami fans handle the 1983 claim and USC fans handle the 2004 claim, but the 1993 claim? Get serious guys.

(Side note: I thought Auburn should have played USC in the 2004 BCS Championship game instead of Oklahoma, but the Trojans were going to win either way)

The 1993 national championship trophy sits in Tallahassee and it isn't moving. While Auburn did go 11-0 in 1993, they were banned from the postseason and television in general, meaning if you weren't there, you didn't see it. The schedule was a joke. The Tigers played two teams ranked in the Top 25 and seven of their 11 games (that nobody saw) were at home. Non-conference games? Samford, New Mexico State and Southern Miss.

Meanwhile, FSU was out playing everyone. The Seminoles' schedule had seven Top 25 teams, road games at Notre Dame (ugh) and Florida and then beating previously undefeated Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. The Irish beat FSU on November 13 and lost a week later to Boston College. Timing is everything, but I understood Notre Dame's gripe to an extent. Auburn has no argument. They weren't going to be on TV, so they loaded up an easy schedule with a bunch of home games to make some money. 

Both teams had a common opponent - Florida. Auburn beat the Gators 38-35 in a game no one outside Jordan-Hare Stadium saw (although highlights were available on YouTube a while back) and FSU beat Florida 33-21 in The Swamp in the marquee nationally-televised noon game on ABC with Keith Jackson on the call.

Father and son will not share this national championship

1993 was one of those years when FSU fans had a bit of a soft spot for Auburn because of the Bobby Bowden legacy. The Tigers were coached by Bobby's son, Terry, and one of his other sons, Tommy, was the offensive coordinator.

So yeah, there were some family ties there and a lot of happy people in Tallahassee when word got around that Auburn beat Florida (since only about 80,000 actually saw it). Those were days when Auburn was respectable. Now the Tigers program is kind of sad. You know things are getting bad when Hugh Freeze would rather play golf than watch Jackson Arnold practice. 

Obviously, these fake titles mean a lot to Auburn, so I'm no longer going to rain on the parade that Tigers are probably going to retroactively have. But my message to Auburn, Notre Dame or Nebraska: take a tour of the Dunlap Football Center and you can see the 1993 National Championship Trophy.