Since the beginning of the 2020s, the Iron Bowl hasn’t been given the respect it deserves by the rest of the college football world.

The games have largely remained competitive, particularly when taking place in the Portal to Hell that is Jordan-Hare Stadium, but what was the unquestioned greatest rivalry in college football a decade ago now seems to take a backseat in the national conversation to games of a more northerly latitude.

The blame for this of course lies mostly at the feet of Auburn. Not the fans -- God knows they’ve done their part. The Auburn athletic administration has made three baffling, poorly-conceived decisions this decade that brought the reputation of this once-great program to a low point.

Firing Gus Malzahn, replacing him with Bryan Harsin, and replacing Harsin

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