Can't Duck the huge fact: SEC football rules

GLENDALE, Ariz. — It looks different. It's faster. You don't have time to read the ads in the program between plays. And you have to get your mind around all these funny numbers — 40 points a game, 500 yards, five wide receivers, defenses that congratulate themselves on holding you to 30 ...

But it is still football.

"We told our guys all week," Ted Roof said. "We said it still comes down to whipping that guy in front of you."

Ted Roof, standing in the midst of this field with confetti in his hair and his children stepping around big TV cables, is Auburn's defensive coordinator.

He is the former coach at Duke and is now the guy with the headphones who is not known as a genius. That reputation belongs to offensive counselor Gus Malzahn.

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