After a drubbing by Georgia the Tigers return home to face the Razorbacks with their new coach who replaced our OC who shocked Mississippi State last week for their first SEC win in forever. This is a dangerous game for Auburn. A loss today would be disastrous. I am very nervous. I just do not know what to expect. The Tigers must improve on both sides of the ball. Auburn is a 13.5 favorite. The game begins in the rain at Jordan-Hare on ESPN.
FIRST QUARTER
Auburn wins the toss and defers. Arkansas goes three and out.
Good punt return ruined by a holding call. Auburn starts on their own 28.
After one first down Auburn is punting.
Arkansas fair catches the punt on the ten.
After one first down the Razorbacks are punting.
Auburn fair catches on the 16.
So far this looks like two teams playing in slow motion.
The rain continues to fall.
On two running plays Auburn is out to their 44.
First down to the Arky 46.
4th down on the Arky 44 as the rain affects the last two passes.
The punt is downed at the Arkansas 3. A field position game early.
Arkansas is three and out punting from inside their five.
AUBURN BLOCKS THE PUNT AND RECOVERS IN THE END ZONE! JORDAN PETERS blocks the punt. BARTON LESTER FALLS ON THE PUNT IN THE END ZONE.
AUBURN 7 ARKANSAS 0
The rain continues harder. Kickoff out of bounds. Arkansas at their 35.
Another Arkansas three and out. The AU defense is showing up right now.
AU starts at the 23.
DJ Williams explodes for 41 yards the Arkansas 36.
On 4th and three Carlson makes a 47 yard field goal! Auburn increases its lead with 36 seconds left in the quarter with the weather deteriorating.
AUBURN 10 ARKANSAS 0
The quarter ends with the Razorbacks facing second and seven.
SECOND QUARTER
One first down and Arkansas is punting.
Tutt has to dive on the ball at the 20 with no return.
Tank Bigsby runs for two straight first downs.
First down running the ball to the Arkansas 36.
Auburn is running football with Bigsby and Williams and I like it.
First down behind Bigsby to the 15.
Nix around right end from the 15 for the end zone.
80 yards on that drive in ten plays ALL on the ground.
AUBURN 17 ARKANSAS 0
After a kickoff out of bounds and abetted by an Auburn facemark penalty Arkansas drives for a score which comes from a short pass from around the five. The point after is no good. The ball never got off the ground.
AUBURN 17 ARKANSAS 6
6:24 left in the half.
Kickoff return to the Auburn 33.
The Tigers reach midfield before the drive fizzles.
Bad punt by Nix. Arkansas starts at their 25 with a little more than four minutes to go.
We need a turnover.
BUT there is a long completion to the Auburn 30. Yikes!
Arkansas shows offensive sizzle all of a sudden.
Arkansas completion to the AU ten. I don't like this.
Arkansas to the seven.
Touchdown Arkansas. Just like that four minutes ago Auburn was up 17 and now the Razorbacks score two straight touchdowns. They have gone to a hurry up offense the last two drives. It's anybody's game.
The two point attempt fails as their receiver cannot hold the ball in the end zone.
AUBURN 17 ARKANSAS 12
From the 35 Bigsby runs on the first play to the Arkansas 39.
Completion to Williams to the Arkansas nine!
Quickly we move to third and goal at the seven.
We lose a yard and we have to go for the field goal.
41 seconds left.
We go right down the field but have to settle for the FG attempt. Good.
AUBURN 20 ARKANSAS 12
38 seconds left.
Arkansas runs out the clock.
It's anybody's game.
THIRD QUARTER
The Tigers receive to start the half and drive to the Arkansas 38 before the usual trouble starts.
Back we go from there. We have had success running the ball but little success throwing the ball. Nix either has to run for his life or his short passes are not accurate. Our passing game in nonexistent. We cannot sustain a drive. One of our scores came on a blocked punt.
Arkansas gains possession on the punt inside their 15. This game is not going well at this point.
Arkansas starts moving the ball like they did at the end of the second quarter.
Coach Steele better do something. Coach Morris better do something.
The Hogs cross midfield. Their offense is having success against our porous defense. Our defense looks lethargic.
Arkansas moves to our 17. They convert third downs unlike Auburn.
We are not getting any pressure on their QB.
We will be lucky to win this football game.
First and goal from the nine. We sack the RB for a loss but get called for facemask. Auburn is doing everything it can to lose this game.
Touchdown Arkansas. This is totally disgusting. They are making great offensive play calls against our defense which looks lifeless. At least the 2-point attempt is not good.
AUBURN 20 ARKANSAS 18
The Tigers drive to the Arkansas 17 finally completing a few passes.
There is a holding call and back we go.
The quarter ends with Auburn facing third and ten from the 17.
FOURTH QUARTER
First play Schwartz takes the short completion to the end zone. We needed that one.
AUBURN 27 ARKANSAS 18
Here comes Arkansas again. It looks like our defense is not going to stand up.
Arkansas moves inside out five as they complete a shuffle pass against our blitz.
We move to fourth and goal from about the five.
The FG attempt is good.
AUBURN 27 ARKANSAS 21
This is what you call a fourth quarter game.
On our first play from scrimmage Bigsby fumbles and Arkansas recovers. The play is reviewed and Bigsby is luckily ruled down. It looked like the review could have gone either way but the call on the field was fumble.
But Auburn is punting from just outside our 20. Arkansas has scored something like 4 straight times. What can our defense do?
The punt goes to the Razorback 30. Scary stuff here for sure.
Our defense hasn't stopped Arkansas since early in the second quarter. They have kept our defense off balance mixing runs and throws.
Arkansas drives for the touchdown converting a 4th and 6 and on the next play throwing the end zone for the touchdown. Now this really is hairy.
AUBURN 27 ARKANSAS 28
We are headed for a wild finish.
The Tigers hold the Hogs and get the ball back after the punt at the Arkansas 45.
With 28 seconds left we face 4th down at the after Nix drops the snap under center and clocks the ball immediately called for grounding.
Sanders hits the FG with 7 seconds left on the clock. Whew!
AUBURN 30 ARKANSAS 28
OH, MY! Glad to win. It was one of those games. Just glad to win this one. It could have gone either way in the rain at Jordan-Hare with a Covid crowd negating our home field advantage. Let's move on. this Auburn team needs much improvement to handle this 10 game SEC schedule.
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