I’m sorry Auburn fans, but the Tigers aren’t making the inaugural College Football Playoff.

The road is just too tough, and with the exception of its 41-7 romping of LSU, Auburn has yet to play 60 minutes of dominant football.

Forget the strength of schedule numbers, Football Power Index and all of that. When you look at who Auburn has left to play with the eye test, its schedule is harder than any other team in college football.

Road trips to Ole Miss, Georgia and Alabama — all top 10 teams — highlight the final six weeks in which the Tigers also must face South Carolina and Texas A&M, both struggling teams capable of making a game tough.

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College football analysts have varying opinions on Gus Malzahn’s team.

ESPN’s Jesse Palmer has the Tigers in his four-team playoff.

“I think if you’re looking at one loss teams, Auburn’s loss is by far the best loss right now,” Palmer told ESPN’s Colin Cowherd, “and that’s another matchup I’d love to see down the road as well, because I think Auburn did a lot of things in the [loss to Mississippi State] to shoot themselves in the foot. But I certainly think they’re the best one loss team in the country.

“I think the talent they have, I think Nick Marshall’s playing at a Heisman-caliber level running and throwing the football. Duke Williams has made a big difference in that offense with respect to the balance. The defensive front seven, they’re physical.”

Most experts around the game have Auburn in their first two out of the playoff.

The SEC is top-heavy this season, and Auburn finds itself in the thick of the race. In addition to having three top 1o opponents left on its schedule, the Tigers aren’t the 2013 team many fell in love with. The offense has sputtered during the majority of the 5-1 start, and while the defense is improved, Auburn has needed bursts of offensive production combined with defensive stops to win games.

Winning out is Auburn’s only hope. Gus Malzahn and his staff are hoping that a little improvement can translate into big results during the final six weeks of the season. With the Mississippi schools having magical seasons worthy enough of a Disney story, and Alabama looking like the Alabama of old after the historic 59-0 shutout of Texas A&M, the chances of the Tigers going 6-0 are bleak.

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The win at Kansas State on a Thursday night now is a very quality win as the Wildcats sit with one loss, just beat Oklahoma on the road and are a favorite to win the Big 12. That’s the Tigers’ best win to this point, but if Auburn can somehow find a way to stay unblemished the rest of the way, it will have built an indisputable resume as not only a playoff team, but as a possible No. 1 seed.

You can almost certainly chalk in three more wins: South Carolina this week, Texas A&M on Nov. 8 and Samford on Nov. 22. It’s the three road games that has the Auburn faithful’s stomachs in a knot.

As well they should. Best case scenario for Auburn is that it manages to go 1-2 against the trio of Ole Miss, Georgia and Alabama. ESPN’s Football Power Index gives the Tigers less than a 50 percent chance to beat the Rebels, Bulldogs and Crimson Tide.

Auburn is a very good football team and is on track for a very good season. But for Tigers fans hoping their team can make up for falling 13 seconds short last season, it may take another miracle.

Of course, after last season, who could question what Malzahn has up his sleeve?