This may well be apocryphal, but it’s what I heard. I heard that Auburn some time decades ago played Oklahoma in Norman. The Sooner fans called Nebraska fans the “corndogs”, which made some sense. Auburn fans heard it, thought it was funny, and decided they were going to use it themselves. They decided to use it against LSU.

It makes no sense, but in a way it’s kind of brilliant. LSU fans pride themselves on their culinary skills. Our tailgates feature a variety of exotic foods like crawfish, jambalaya, gumbo, various meats and fish, and all the colors of the rainbow. Auburn mocks it by proclaiming that all of that together mixes up and smells like low-class processed corndogs. It hits us right in our pride, if you will.

I don’t know if they thought that deeply about it when they made it up, but there’s a certain logic to it.

For what it’s worth, I couldn’t even guess when the last time I ate a corndog was.