The Tigers suffered through a standard set of unfortunate circumstances that have followed Auburn’s struggles against Top-25 teams since the last win against a ranked team last Halloween weekend against the Rebels at Jordan-Hare.
Untimely pre-snap penalties on offense, a costly turnover, and several mistakes plagued the Tigers in what felt like a replay of the 29-point loss against Penn State.
-- Robby Ashford was 13-38 passing for 165 yards in his first road start. Ashford struggled with accuracy, but one of the issues was the third-down situations when Georgia came with blitz packages. Ashford had seven throwaways, which were often the right decision with no receivers open, or a running lane for him to scramble through. UGA didn’t record a sack against Auburn mostly because Ashford would run when the opportunity presented itself or throw it away.
“I mean, the ball came out. I think I don’t know if he just dropped it or if somebody knocked it out. I was kind of watching something else,” Harsin said. “I just saw the ball come out. So, either way, it’s a turnover. And those are costly, and that’s been something that, you know, everybody knows that, too. No one’s trying to put the ball on the ground. You want to take care of it. But that becomes a big factor in games.
“I don’t know exactly what happened; obviously, there was a one-on-one somewhere that we didn’t win, but absolutely to try to create a spark to continue the drive,” Harsin said.
“I know on the offensive line, we lost a few key starters. On the defensive line, you know, guys were banged up and coming out,” Harsin said. “So that’s been a little bit of an issue this season, is some of the injuries, having some of our key players out, and I think that’s one of the keys to being a successful team throughout the year, is if you can avoid the injury bug a little bit. And things happen in football, unfortunately.
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