Several members of the national media think the Auburn Tigers could be the surprise team of the SEC.

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We'll talk about Jarquez Hunter being the only first teamer on the preseason SEC teams as voted by the media at media days.

We disagree with that.

We'll also talk about where Auburn finished as far as the voting goes.

I don't know.

Lizzie, it doesn't line up.

It doesn't line up with what our first topic today is going to be.

And throughout the week, I had several members of the national media come up to me and say, hey, when I'm asked who the

surprise team is in the SEC this year, I'm saying Auburn. I think you guys, you know,

talking to me specifically, I think you're covering a really interesting team this year. Then they

proceeded to ask my thoughts on the roster and the situation and Lindsay I went on several shows

at media days last week in Dallas and they're like they asked about Auburn and there's several

things that we just don't know the answer to because we don't know if Peyton Thor is going to

take that next step we don't know if the transition of offensive mindset from Philip Montgomery

to Hugh Free slash Derek Knicks is going to garner this massive step that we think it possibly could.

But the bottom line here is there are a million reasons why

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