Top 10 Memorable Games in the SEC in 2014

Shootout in T-Town

Since Memorial Day is a day of remembrance, today we at Southbound are going to take a week to remember all the memorable games in the SEC that took place in 2014.

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Last year was an exciting race to finish in the SEC with both division races coming down to the last weekend of the season. One of the games we are going to look at today is the Iron Bowl.

In the last few years this game has been played, Alabama or Auburn has represented the West in the SEC Championship game; last year was no different.

Alabama came in needing only to defeat Auburn to head back to Atlanta to represent the West again. The Auburn Tigers were looking to play spoiler.

Until their lost to Texas A & M, Auburn was still very much in the division race as well. But a blowout loss a week earlier at Georgia ended any hopes of the Tigers making a return trip to the ATL.

Alabama would come out on fire going up 14-0 on the Tigers, but then the Tigers would wake up from their slumber and put on an offensive clinic lead by quarterback Nick Marshall and wideout Sammie Coats.

Aided by Alabama turnovers, the Tigers would take a halftime lead and would be up by double digits in the second half.

But just as the Tigers would put on an offensive clinic in the first half, the Tide would return the favor.

Lead by quarterback Blake Sims, who was on the verge of being benched after his third interception to begin the second half.

Sims and wide receiver Amari Cooper would bust the game wide open with two long touchdown passes.

Alabama would take the lead again and never look back winning a 55-44 shootout.

Coupled with a Mississippi State loss to Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl, Alabama would be heading back to the SEC Championship game and would go on and face the Missouri Tigers.

The Iron Bowl score was the most combine points by the two schools in Iron Bowl history and until the fourth quarter, it was a back and forth affair. Had Alabama lost, and had Mississippi State beaten Ole Miss, the Bulldogs would have gone to Atlanta.

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