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Robby Ashford shows resilience in loss against No. 9 Ole Miss Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 6:37 p.m. 4-5 minutes 10/15/22; Oxford, MS, USA; Robby Ashford (9) throw during Auburn vs Ole Miss Todd Van Emst/AU AthleticsTodd Van Emst//AU Athletics By Nubyjas Wilborn | nwilborn@al.com Auburn quarterback Robby Ashford bounced back from an inauspicious first quarter that saw him get temporarily benched to nearly helping his team overcome a 21-0 deficit in Saturday’s 48-34 loss against Ole Miss at Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium. Ashford, in his fourth college start and second on the road, threw an interception to Rebels’ free safety A.J Finley on 1st and ten from the Auburn 46 with the score tied 0-0 at the 6:46 mark in the first quarter. Ashford intended the pass for running back Tank Bigsby, and Finley made a diving catch. Ole Miss took the lead two plays later on Jaxon Dart 35 yard touchdown pass to Dayton Wade. Ashford lost nine yards recovering a fumbled snap on 1st and 10 during the ensuing drive. He got seven yards back scrambling on the next play, but an errant pass sailed away on third down. Ole Miss took advantage of good field position, scored on the drive after the setbacks, and had a 14-0 lead against Auburn. Read More Auburn Football: ‘That one sucked’: Ole Miss’ surprise onside kick looms large for Auburn in loss Instant Analysis: Auburn loses 48-34 at No. 9 Ole Miss What Lane Kiffin said about No. 9 Ole Miss beating Auburn 48-34 Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin benched Ashford for the following series. T.J. Finley saw his first action since exiting the Penn State 29-point loss with a shoulder injury on Auburn’s next series. Finley fumbled on a third-down sack, and Ole Miss converted the turnover into another touchdown and had a 21-0 lead. Harsin went back to Ashford, who at that point was 1-6 passing for five yards with the Tigers down 21-0 against a hot Ole Miss team. Ashford rewarded Harsin’s faith with a 46-yard pass to Koy Moore on 3rd and 15 from the Tigers’ 32-yard line. The Oregon transfer capped a nine-play 75-yard drive with a two-yard touchdown run with 10:46 left in the half. “To me, as a quarterback, that’s how you should handle it,” Harsin said about Ashford’s response. “You should get in there, and you have a responsibility to go out there and lead the team and execute your assignment. You have a responsibility to go out there and do that. He’s going to touch the ball every single play.” Ashford’s second rushing touchdown pulled the Tigers to a 38-31 deficit with 2:30 left in the third quarter. Despite being down by three touchdowns, there was an opportunity for Auburn to escape with its seventh consecutive win against the Rebels’. “I know he had put a ball on the ground and thrown a pick,” Auburn linebacker Owen Pappoe said. “But he didn’t quit. He kept playing hard. He kept walking up to us every time we got off the field, saying, ‘I got y’all. Y’all just go out there and get the stop.’ I love the energy that he brought to us, especially when we came into the locker room at the half.” Ashford threw an interception on Auburn’s final offensive play. The Tigers were trailing by two touchdowns with less than three minutes in the game, but Ashford went down fighting until the end. “He did a good job extending some plays, too. He scrambled; we had some big throws down the field and also taking off and running,” Harsin said. “He had that one at the end there where had the first down -- that was a big play on fourth down. We’re in a position where we have to go -- we have to put two touchdowns on the board there -- and he got the first down for us. He utilized his legs well; he competed; made some good decisions down the field; found some open guys.” Nubyjas Wilborn covers Auburn for Alabama Media Group. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Ole Miss’ surprise onside kick looms large for Auburn in loss Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 6:24 p.m. 4-5 minutes Lane Kiffin sensed his team needed a boost — something to reenergize Ole Miss after Auburn scrapped away at a lead that was at one point 21 points in the first half. The Rebels just kicked a short field goal, after weighing a fourth-down attempt from the Tigers’ 5-yard line, to push their lead back to seven early in the second half. Ole Miss led, 31-24, with 9:50 to go in the third quarter, but Auburn was on a role offensively. The Tigers scored on four of their last five drives and were thriving on the ground. Read more Auburn football: Auburn’s run defense decimated by Ole Miss in worst performance in 20 years Rewinding Auburn’s 48-34 loss to Ole Miss What Bryan Harsin said about Auburn’s third straight loss So Kiffin wanted to make sure Auburn’s offense didn’t have a chance to answer. The Ole Miss coach surprised Auburn with an onside kick after the field goal, and the Rebels recovered to gain an extra possession. Nine plays and 54 yards later, Ole Miss was in the end zone, and its lead was back to two touchdowns. “That one sucked,” Auburn linebacker Owen Pappoe said. “…That one kind of hurt.” The onside kick took everyone in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium by surprise during Ole Miss’ eventual 48-34 win. It didn’t seem like the time of game or the situation to attempt one, but Kiffin believed the gamble could pay off. Auburn was lined up in its typical deep kick return formation, and Ole Miss didn’t tip its hand. It wasn’t until Rebels kicker Jonathan Cruz’s measured approach and sly kick that anyone on the Tigers’ side of the field realized what was happening. The ball bounced 10 yards downfield, with the four closest players to it when it crossed the 45-yard line all wearing powder blue. Ole Miss pounced on the ball, taking over at its own 46-yard line with 9:45 to go in the third. “It was a huge play for the players to make the play,” Kiffin said. “Looks awesome on film…. We were struggling at that point in the game, so we got the ball back in the game, so I don’t think that’s what people were anticipating in the game in a high-scoring kind of game. We got to that drive, so let’s do it…. Obviously, it helped us in the game a lot.” Ole Miss made the most of its shocking deployment of an onside kick at that juncture. It forced Auburn’s defense to quickly return to the field — after it had just been on for a 13-play Ole Miss possession. It was a quick turnaround for the Tigers’ defense, and one that was only made more difficult by the Rebels’ use of up-tempo offense. Ole Miss marched 54 yards over its next nine plays, all runs, with Alabama native Quinshon Judkins capping the bonus possession with a 5-yard touchdown run to make it a two-score game. Auburn was able to get back within a touchdown on Robby Ashford’s second touchdown run of the game with 2:30 to go in the period, but the extra possession — and ensuing score — allowed Ole Miss to keep Auburn at arm’s length for the remainder of the game. Simply put: Kiffin’s gambit paid off, delivering one of the most consequential plays of the day. “Flat out, I mean, they got us on that,” Auburn coach Bryan Harsin said. “That was a good call by them…. Plays like that — there’s O and D plays and stuff like that, but on special teams, there’s only small opportunities for plays like that. And that was a good call by them. They got it. Created momentum for them, and obviously we didn’t play it well enough. We’re gonna go back and look at it. “There’s answers for it, there’s things you work on, but in that moment right there, you’ve got to do it. And they did it better than we did it in that moment right there. And so what you do is you take that, you learn from it, and, moving forward, you’ve got to expect those things at all times, which you talk about it, you prepare for it, but it happened in the game and it was a momentum-changer.” Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Instant Analysis: Auburn loses 48-34 at No. 9 Ole Miss Updated: Oct. 15, 2022, 4:15 p.m.|Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 3:44 p.m. 4-5 minutes By Nubyjas Wilborn | nwilborn@al.com Auburn (3-4, 1-3) is on a three-game losing streak after failing to overcome a 21-0 deficit during Saturday’s 48-34 loss against No. 9 Ole Miss at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Quinshon Judkins was one of three Rebels to run for over 100 yards. Judkins’ 41-yard score in the fourth quarter was his third touchdown and put Ole Miss ahead 48-34 with 6:26 left in the game. Auburn settled for an Anders Carlson field goal on the drive before Judkins went for the touchdown to ice the game. Robby Ashford lost four yards on 1st and goal from the two with a little over 10 minutes left in the game and the Tigers trailing by 10 points. The drive stalled at the 10 with Carlson nailing the 28-yard field goal. A rare miscue by Tank Bigsby on third down drew a five-yard penalty pushing to 3rd and 11. Ole Miss outscored Auburn 14-0 in the first quarter. Dayton Wade caught a 35-yard touchdown from Rebel quarterback Jaxon Dart at the 6:42 mark in the first. Running back Zach Evans corraled the second score for 23 yards. Evans scored his second touchdown of the game on a 2-yard rush on second down. Dart, Evans, and Judkins each rushed for over 100 yards on a night that saw Auburn allow 448 rushing yards. It was the first time Auburn allowed over 400 yards on the ground since 2015 against LSU. Auburn falls to 9-11 under second-year coach Bryan Harsin heading into the bye week. The Tigers are 3-9 since last season’s victory over No. 10 Ole Miss at Jordan Hare. Auburn was 6-2 after beating the Rebels last Halloween weekend and hasn’t beaten a ranked opponent since that win. The Tigers are 1-7 in their last eight SEC games since beating Ole Miss last season. Here are AL.com’s key takeaways from Saturday’s game at Ole Miss. Turnovers and bad breaks Ole Miss scored its first touchdown on a short field after Ashford threw an interception with Wade’s catch. T.J. Finley made his return to the lineup since getting benched during the Penn State loss. Finley’s stay was short and ended with a fumble that led to the second Ole Miss touchdown. Rebels’ coach Lane Kiffin went into his trick bag in the third quarter with an onsides kick after a 23-yard field goal that put Ole Miss ahead 31-24 with 9:50 left in the quarter. There’s no analytics book that will a coach to make that call. If it fails the Rebels give up great field position to Auburn. The gamble paid off with a Judkins touchdown and the Rebels led 38-24 with less than seven minutes left in the third quarter. Redemption for Ashford. Ashford regained the reins of the offense on the drive after Finley’s fumble that led to the third touchdown by Ole Miss. He drove the Tigers down the field for a nine-play 75-yard drive that he finished with a two-yard touchdown on a quarterback keeper. Ashford threw two interceptions, including one with 2:15 left in the fourth quarter. He also battled through a tough game and finished with 140 passing yards and 35 rushing yards with two touchdowns. Big day for Bigsby Ole Miss had nearly 500 yards on the ground, however, the Tigers had the leading rusher. Tank Bigsby had 179 rushing yards on 20 carries. His 50-yard running score brought the Tigers within four points of Ole Miss. Auburn trailed 28-24 early in the third quarter. The Tigers had 301 running yards. Jarquez Hunter ran 80 yards on 10 carries. Auburn had success running the ball for the first time in several games. Perhaps Auburn can build on it going forward. Nubyjas WIlborn covers Auburn for Alabama Media Group. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

wait until he is gone and you hear the whole story.........

What Bryan Harsin said about Auburn’s 48-34 loss to No. 9 Ole Miss Updated: Oct. 15, 2022, 5:22 p.m.| Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 3:53 p.m. Bryan Harsin addresses the media following Auburn's 48-34 loss at Ole Miss NEW! 497 shares By Tom Green | tgreen@al.com Auburn will head into the bye week on a three-game losing streak. Bryan Harsin’s team dropped its third straight game Saturday, falling to No. 9 Ole Miss, 48-34, in Oxford, Miss. The Tigers dug themselves a 21-point hole early in the second quarter, clawed their way back to within four early in the third quarter but ultimately couldn’t keep pace with the Rebels, who rushed for 448 yards to put Auburn away. Harsin is set to meet with the media after the game to discuss his team’s performance. AL.com will provide live updates in the space below throughout Harsin’s postgame remarks, so be sure to refresh the page for the latest news and information from the Tigers’ head coach. BRYAN HARSIN -- Opens saying that the team played hard. Credits Ole Miss for running the ball well and playing physical. - “Overall... we fought today. I saw some really positive things from a lot of our players.” -- Pleased with the run game, especially Tank Bigsby and Jarquez Hunter’s efforts. -- Turnovers again a factor. -- “These guys, they’re fighting.” -- Message: “We’re not there yet.” Feels team is improving, but needs to take that next step to get over the hump. -- On the improved run game: “I thought the line, it looked like -- we didn’t have many negative plays.” Also notes they had some explosive runs today, too. Line didn’t give up as much penetration, and it allowed the backs to get going. -- On Robby Ashford’s response after being replace by T.J. Finley for a drive: “As a quarterback, that’s how you should handle it.... He did a good job.” -- On the run defense today, says Ole Miss schemed it up well, formation-wise. “They were running hard. Their backs ran hard.” Also believes Jaxson Dart’s ability to pull it and make some plays really opened up the inside zone for Ole Miss. -- “We had big runs; they had some big runs as well... They had 450 yards rushing. That’s a big game.” -- On Jeremiah Wright’s start at left guard: “The plays that I watched, he did well.” -- Says he obviously didn’t agree with the fourth-down pass interference call against Auburn in the first half. Ole Miss went on to score a touchdown on that drive. “I’m not changing (the call), at the end of the day... What I saw was our guy playing with good technique, playing hard.” -- On his biggest takeaway 20 games into his Auburn tenure, with a 9-11 record: “These guys fight.... They want to win. They all want to win... It’s how we do it. It’s all the things we have to do to be winners leading into a game. That’s all it comes down to.” Adds that they’re trying to close the gap and find a winning formula, noting “it’s hard to win” in this league. -- On whether he has received assurance that he will finish the season: “Like I’ve said before.... my job is to help this football team improve, win and get better.” Says, no question, he and his staff will continue working to get this team better. -- On Ole Miss’ onside kick: “Flat out, they got us on that.... We didn’t play it well enough.” AL.com will update this post. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.

What Lane Kiffin said about No. 9 Ole Miss beating Auburn 48-34 Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 5:46 p.m. 4-5 minutes Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin reacts to the team's interception of an Auburn pass during an NCAA college football game in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Mississippi won 48-34. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP By Nubyjas Wilborn | nwilborn@al.com No. 9 Ole Miss ran for 448 yards on 69 carries in Saturday’s 48-34 victory against Auburn in front of 65,423 fans at Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium. Ole Miss is 7-0 for the first time since the 2014 season; before that, it was 1962, the last time the Rebels were 7-0 to start a season. The win also broke Auburn’s six-game winning streak in the series. Rebels’ head coach Lane Kiffin spoke to reporters after winning against Auburn. Here’s some of what Kiffin said in Oxford. Opening Statement… ”Really good team win. It was unusual with the delay so I was really proud of just the long time sitting there and just talking to our players about finishing the play off, and those guys really rallied and played a close game. I was very pleased on how we finished on offense and defense. You know we stopped them there, got the pick, and shut down the series. Then we gave the ball back to them and then they go those two first downs. We talked about that during the delay and evaluate what happened and we just have to stop them on defense. Those two first downs at the end of the game were good, we haven’t been great at that. That was really good to see. Obviously, this is the story of the game but we just had to stop them from running. They had three rushers with over 100 yards and there were a lot of people doing things right. Like I told the guys, we had a cool story on that play when Mingo got that catch. When we have a record setting day, they talk about how well he’s doing and how many rushing yards we had so that’s really cool when you have selfless people like that.” On concerns about the defense… ”Obviously, that wasn’t up to our standards no matter who is in there. Unfortunately, our best player tried to go and we already played our best player from an impact standpoint. Cedric wasn’t able to play at all. He made some excuses but our guys have to step up every time because this is the middle of the season, we’re going to have injuries and obviously, we don’t have Trigg this week and we don’t have a bunch of explosive runs. Then we announced that we have lightning eight miles from here and so we have to come up with a defensive play and then I was like well we have thirty minutes to go figure it out.” On the onside kick… ”It was a huge play for the players to make the play. Looks awesome on film. Coach did a great job of finding it and they had been practicing it all week. You know, we were struggling at that point in the game so we got the ball back in the game so I don’t think that’s what people were anticipating in the game in a high-scoring kind of game. We got to that drive so let’s do it. We get it and then they’re back on the field again so we get twenty straight snaps on defense so the players needed it. Obviously, it helped us in the game a lot.” On conference play this year… ”I actually wasn’t one hundred percent coming into this game. We had to talk through some things so we ran the ball really well. Our tight ends and our receivers remembered to block really well and a lot of those different types of schemes got our ball in the perimeter because our guys will get to the ball in between tackles so we can take the ball around the edge and get around them.” Nubyjas Wilborn covers Auburn for Alabama Media Group If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Auburn’s run defense decimated by Ole Miss in worst performance in 20 years Published: Oct. 15, 2022, 5:37 p.m. 4-5 minutes An emboldened Ole Miss fan climbed out of the stands and onto the field at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium midway through the fourth quarter and ran toward the southwest end zone. He raised his arms skyward, smiling as he jogged into the end zone, where he was promptly taken down by swarm of security and police officers. Even that unruly Rebels fan, it seemed, wanted to see if he could run on Auburn’s defense. Everyone else could, at least. Read more Auburn football: Rewinding Auburn’s 48-34 loss to Ole Miss What Bryan Harsin said about Auburn’s third straight loss Instant analysis from Auburn’s loss to Ole Miss Auburn’s defense turned in a historically bad performance against the run Saturday during its 48-34 loss to No. 9 Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss. The Tigers allowed 448 rushing yards to the Rebels, who found the end zone three times on the ground and averaged 6.5 yards per carry for the day. “It’s the same story this week — misfits,” edge Derick Hall said. “We gift a lot of things to teams…. They just exploited our mistakes, and offenses want to do that.” It was the most rushing yards allowed by Auburn in a game in at least 20 yards and was the team’s worst defensive effort against the run since Oct. 12, 2002, against Arkansas. That was the day the Razorbacks gashed the Tigers to the tune of 426 yards and five touchdowns on the ground, led by Fred Talley’s 241 yards. Auburn didn’t allow a 200-yard rusher Saturday, but three Ole Miss players eclipsed the 100-yard plateau in this football game-turned-track meet. Quinshon Judkins, an Alabama native who grew up just down the road from Auburn in Pike Road, paced the Rebels with 139 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Zach Evans had 136 yards rushing and a touchdown, while quarterback Jaxson Dart added 115 yards. “I thought both those backs for Ole Miss were impressive, and they were getting downhill, they were breaking tackles, they were falling forward and getting extra yards every time they carried it,” Auburn coach Bryan Harsin said. Ole Miss finished with its most rushing yards in a single game since at least 2000. It was the first time the Rebels eclipsed 400 yards on the ground in SEC play since 2019 against LSU. According to Harsin, Ole Miss did some things formation-wise and in terms of scheme that caused some issues, and Dart’s mobility and ability to keep it opened up some inside-zone opportunities for Judkins and Evans. That hurt, but the missed tackles were crippling. The Rebels took advantage, finishing with 13 runs of at least 10 yards — totaling 262 yards on those big plays — including six runs of 20-plus yards. “You look at their yards, they had about 450 yards rushing; that’s a big game,” Harsin said. “So, with those explosive runs and that consistency at the end, you’ve got to be able to slow them down. That’s hard in between the tackles, and those backs were good.” In its last two games, Auburn’s defense has been plowed through on the ground. Georgia ran for 292 yards and six touchdowns in last weekend’s blowout between the hedges, meaning Auburn has given up 740 yards, nine touchdowns and 6.85 yards per carry in those two games. The Tigers are allowing 204.4 yards per game on the ground this season, with 19 touchdowns, while opponents have averaged 4.85 yards per carry. Against Power 5 opponents, the numbers are more concerning: 1,303 rushing yards and 18 touchdowns, 260.6 rushing yards allowed per game and 5.54 yards per carry. “It’s kind of been a bad trend that we’ve had this season,” linebacker Owen Pappoe said. “That needs to get corrected. We’re going into a bye week, and now everybody on the team has a chance to look in the mirror and reevaluate what we’ve been doing, because obviously it hasn’t been working.” Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

guys...................GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am on the phone with steve spurrier. should i invite him down?

i wish. i did go jam with some guys and i can still bring it.........for two songs. i did well but i am so old and fat my legs were wobbling so i went and sat down. but some young cats doubted me so i stoke a blow for geezers everywhere.

my memory is bad but i remember an older clip with harsin and caddy looking at each other but i paid no attention. i wish the guy that saw it will tell us what you say. it is already public knowledge.

he did both swamp. twice. i am kinda shocked.............

just think boys before too long auburn will be rising up out of the ashes. it will be glorious! and we always do. we will get through this and i hope we will be better off for it and i believe in my heart we will. harsin will be nothing more than an old ghost story the vets tell the frosh during spring ball to scare the bejusus out of them and make them play harder..............snickers

it would appear like he might assume harsin is toast. this is what i get out of it.

there were a couple of guys on here claimed Heupel was not a good coach and did not want him but they wanted frost. looking back that did not age too well.

i heard he had a meeting to go but he slipped off to the waffle house hoping he could pick up some of guses old mojo........

is this it?

it has his name on it. it is on tik tok. go to the rant on the auburn board and click the link and youshall see.

i care i just do not count in the grand scheme of things....................grins. last year they offered me a thousand dollars cash just to leave and never come back. golf was gonna throw in a six pack. maybe i should have taken the money but i thought i could have been a contender.

if you take away the gimme mizzou gave us we have not won a single sec game. that got chiz fired. i doubt hars makes it to the end of the year.

you are right. but they are not interested in much now anyway but a post game thread is supposed to be done and the game thread locked so i am just helping. i might delete it in the morning. hell i talk to myself a lot anyway.

if freeze is not our head coach next year i believe if i was tj i would go play for liberty. i think hugh could work wonders with him.

anyone remember when tj threw the o line under the bus? now there is a short video of tj making a remark about "when i see other QB's throwing interceptions. it has his face on a cartoon body running from the police and it was posted by him. again, i believe there is trouble in the locker room. it seems tj is not happy and there is or was some issue with tank and robby. it sure does appear that way.

i think if we had a decent head coach today we win the game. i was proud of the fight we put up. one day this will all be a bad dream

yes. just like i am allowed to discuss anything on the board as well. and often on here small statements get seen and piled on by others and i was trying to stem the tide. and yes bird is a big boy and can take care of himself. better than i can in fact but sometime it is nice to have some support. shrugs

i am not sure why no one has done this yet and left the game thread open. anyway i got a big question. what was robby and tank getting into it about on the sidelines? do we have to worry about another year with a divided locker room?