Auburn Football: Why Saturday's Win Is Only a Temporary Band-Aid for the Season

There is an old adage in sports that you only celebrate a win or mourn a loss for 24 hours after it occurs.

For Auburn, the team must put Saturday's 42-7 victory over New Mexico State behind and look forward to this weekend's game against UGA.?

When Auburn returns to the practice field this week, it can be motivated by how sweet the victory against New Mexico State tasted after win No. 2 proved to be extremely elusive.

The players on this team put in countless hours throughout the year in order to feel the way they did on Saturday afternoon. It makes Sundays much better as well.

"They've worked every week, and today, they deserved it, and they deserved to win," head coach Gene Chizik said. "I'm happy for them. I think this is something you can build on.? (via Charles Goldberg, AL.com)

As good as it was for Auburn fans to wake up winners and to see Toomer?s historic oak trees christened with toilet paper, Saturday?s win is only a temporary band-aid over a season that has proven to be a wound that can?t heal without a major operation.

Not much can be taken away from defeating a team in New Mexico State that is winless in the western athletic conference and had lost seven straight games before Saturday.

Some good things did happen that Auburn can build off of, as Chizik said.

Freshman Jonathan Wallace got his first experience as an Auburn starter and was able to play well after starting out slow.

Wallace went 9-of-16 with a touchdown pass and an interception.

Auburn finally committed to the running game. It ran the ball 45 times out of 61 plays. Even with New Mexico State loading up to try and stop the run, Auburn refused to get away from running the ball.

However, some of the same characteristics that has plagued this team for the entire season were still evident in the game.

There was the slow start on offensive and defense. Auburn was only up 7-0 at halftime. The Auburn offense had only 29 yards in the first quarter. New Mexico State had 126 yards.

There were missed opportunities throughout the game. Jonathan Wallace missed a wide-open Sammie Coates down the field late in the second quarter.

The defense missed multiple chances to stop the Aggies behind the line of scrimmage.

The Auburn secondary let a couple of poorly thrown balls slip right through its hands. The unit still only has one interception on the year.

In the coming weeks, Auburn will strap its helmets up and play against its two biggest rivals. Those two teams just happen to be the likely SEC East winner and the likely SEC West winner.?

Auburn will have to play much better than it did on Saturday if it wants to wake up a winner on the Sunday following those matchups.

With Saturday?s win, Auburn moved to 2-7 and is still likely to finish with without a win over a BCS opponent.

Saturday?s win feels good for Auburn fans and players that haven?t felt a win since Sept. 15th, but it serves only as a temporary? band-aid for the program and season.

More bleeding is imminent.?

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Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1395912-auburn-football-why-saturdays-win-is-only-a-temporary-band-aid-for-the-season

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Orange County Early Voting Hours Extended Sunday Following Judge's Ruling

ORLANDO, Fla. ? A judge extended early voting hours in one Florida county on Sunday after the state Democratic Party sued in an effort to give people more time at the polls.

Some voters had faced waits several hours long on Saturday, the last scheduled day of early voting. The judge ruled on a lawsuit filed late Saturday in Orange County after an early voting site was shut down for several hours. The Winter Park library was evacuated when a suspicious package ? a cooler ? was found outside. It was later detonated by a local bomb squad.

Bill Cowles, the Orange County elections supervisor, said that voters who show up on Sunday will be asked to use a provisional ballot. The extra hours will be offered at only the Winter Park library.

A Republican Party spokesman said the party was not challenging the decision. Brian Burgess said state law requires provisional ballots to be used whenever a court orders an extension of voting hours.

The Democratic state party also filed a federal lawsuit Sunday morning seeking more voting time in Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Voting in Miami-Dade County and Palm Beach County didn't wrap up until early Sunday morning because voters standing in line when the polls closed were allowed to vote.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and other Democrats asked Gov. Rick Scott this past week to use his emergency powers to extend early voting. The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature last year cut the number of days available for early voting from a maximum of 14 days to eight days.

Scott and state election officials, however, turned down the extension requests. Secretary of State Ken Detzner maintained that there was not a true emergency that justified the extension. Chris Cate, a spokesman for Detzner, said that the state did not plan to appeal the decision to reopen the Winter Park location.

The federal lawsuit says counties should offer absentee ballot voting at local election offices if early voting cannot be extended. Both Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties said they planned to do that.

"I decided to open because we are allowed to do so," said Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher.

Bucher noted that voting in her county did not wrap up until 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Her office started accepting absentee ballots at 9 a.m.

Christina White, deputy supervisor with Miami-Dade County, said the county also decided to accept absentee ballots for four hours on Sunday at its main office.

"We are hoping that (the Democratic Party) is happy with that," White said.

Broward County is also allowing voters to pick up absentee ballots on Sunday, but only if they made an appointment in advance.

Absentee ballot voting differs from early voting in that voters must fill out their ballot, place it an envelope and then sign it. The ballot envelopes are opened later and then fed into voting machines.

During early voting, voters place their ballots directly into the voting machines.

The Orange County lawsuit asked that early voting be extended at Winter Park and that the court ask local television and radio stations to let voters know about it.

The lawsuit included sworn statements from several voters who said they waited in line for hours and were turned away because voting was suspended at the site. A volunteer with the campaign of President Barack Obama said that the crowd of voters dwindled from 300 to just 40 after voting was halted.

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