Auburn Tigers senior tight end Luke Deal has spent six years on The Plains, and Saturday's 21-14 loss to Cal was one of his low points.
opened its game against Cal with an impressive 75-yard drive for a touchdown, but from there the offense was dominated by the Golden Bears defense. It was one offensive blunder after another as thesaid of the loss. “Offensively, when you work so hard, your defense works so hard, your culture works so hard to remain together. You just put out a product out like that.
Three of the five turnovers came in the fourth quarter. Early in the fourth down 14-7 Jarquez Hunter lost a fumble that set up Cal with an opportunity to extend the score to two possessions, and the Bears offense capitalized. “It was a mixture, it wasn’t just one thing,” Freeze said of the offense. “I thought we were running the ball fairly effective at the beginning of the second half, but we couldn’t into any kind of rhythm. You try to mix it up between run and the pass, and we get a sack and put us in third and long. It’s just a disappointing day for us for sure in our building for sure. It’s not the expectation of the way we should play offensive football.
The Tigers offense had a chance for points at the end of the first half until another error by Thorne was a loss of down, five-yard penalty, and a 10-second run off. On an attempt to spike the ball and stop the clock with 15 seconds left, Thorne fumbled the snap, then spiked it – which is a grounding penalty because of the fumble.The passing game wasn’t any better in the third. Thorne was 1-2 for eight yards and an interception, as well as three sacks.
Starting right tackle Izavion Miller was hurt early in the game and didn’t come back until the third quarter. In his place Akron transfer Roman Chambers played about half the snaps at right tackle. At left tackle Auburn is still trying to find separation between Tyler Johnson and Percy Lewis. Lewis had a series where he missed his run block on first down and his pass block on third down.
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