On Halloween weekend, Hugh Freeze and the Auburn Tigers are haunted by mistakes, poor clock management, and coaching decisions.
Aside from the offense scoring just one touchdown, special teams were key in the loss. Kicker Towns McGough was 0-2 on field goals – from 44 and 51 yards – and the most crucial error of the day was perhaps a penalty on field goal defense that set up the Vanderbilt offense with an opportunity to extend its lead to two scores late in the fourth quarter.
Following Vanderbilt’s fourth quarter touchdown, Auburn mounted a drive to the Commodores 34-yard line. Needing two scores to potentially force overtime, Freeze inexplicably called on McGough again from 51 yards. It was a surprise to no one when the freshman kicker whose confidence is all but gone,Auburn outgained Vanderbilt by a hundred yards – 327 to 227 – and the defense played stellar all day.
A week after Jarquez Hunter reeled off 275 yards in the second half at Kentucky on 21 carries, the Auburn offense went away from Hunter versus Vanderbilt. Hunter had carries of eight yards and five yards on the opening possession of the second half, and didn't get another carry. Auburn was using timeouts on defense as the two-minute warning approached, hoping to get the ball back and get a couple of late scores. After a third-down stop Freeze opted to call a timeout after a third-down stop with 2:01 on the clock. Vanderbilt’s punt would have lead to a clock stoppage. Freeze traded a timeout to save one second.
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