“I thought we had a chance there at the end,” Hugh Freeze said after Auburn nearly pulled the upset against No. 1 Georgia Saturday night.
A pair of white cowboy boots sat leaned up against the wall between the field and Auburn’s student section as a college-aged girl sat facing the field, legs hanging off the wall.
It was the first and only turnover the Tigers committed against the Bulldogs, but it was the one that put the game on ice, sealing Auburn’s 27-20 loss to No. 1 Georgia on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium. But Bowers, Georgia’s all-American tight end who was held to just one catch for three yards in the first half, gave the Auburn defense fits down the stretch.“I think we did pretty good on assignment and alignment,” said Auburn corner Zion Puckett. “I think once you get farther down in the game people get fatigued and miscommunication… I think is what happened for us in that second half.
“I think you look back at this game, you look at third downs,” Freeze said. “You look at our third-down offense and you look at our third-down defense, and I think that’s where the game was lost for us.” And up until Thorne’s interception on Auburn’s final offensive play of the game, the Tigers took care of the football – another notable shift relative to last week’s game against Texas A&M.
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