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Bryan Harsin compares Stetson Bennett to another great college football quarterback Taylor Jones 3 minutes In recent memory, Georgia football has had a run of talented quarterbacks come through their program. Matthew Stafford, Jacob Eason, Jake Fromm, Brock Vandagriff, and Gunner Stockton have all signed with Georgia as either four or five-star quarterbacks. However, the quarterback that led the Bulldogs to their first National Championship since 1980 was a three-star prospect that enrolled at Georgia as a walk-on. Buy Tigers Tickets Stetson Bennett took over the starting quarterback job for Georgia in 2020 after USC transfer J.T. Daniels strained his lat muscle. Georgia kept winning under Bennett, which allowed him to keep the starting position over the five-star prospect with plenty of NFL potential. Daniels elected to transfer to West Virginia for the 2022 season, which cleared the way for Bennett to remain the starter. Bennett is under six feet tall, is not considered an athletic presence, nor does he have a bright NFL outlook. So, what makes him so special? Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin says that Bennett reminds him of a quarterback that he once coached at Boise State, Kellen Moore. “I’m not sure Stetson will say that (he’s not athletic). He’s a good player. I’m impressed with him,” Harsin said Monday. “There are more guys that are bigger and more athletic. I was fortunate to coach a guy that wasn’t very athletic but won more games than any college quarterback ever, and they would say the same thing about him.” Harsin was the offensive coordinator for Boise State from 2006-10, which was at the same timeframe that Moore was the quarterback for the Broncos. During that span, Moore earned a 50-3 record as a starter. Like Moore, Bennett can hurt a defense in many ways. “I don’t see a whole lot of weaknesses in his game, I think he’s got a really good command of what they’re doing. He’s plenty good enough to hurt you in all different ways. So you have to know where he’s at,” Harsin said. “You have to play the entire play with him, too, because that’s what he does. So if you’re going to let off, he’s going to take advantage of that. You have to play the whole entire play with a quarterback like him.” Bennett is off to a hot start in 2022. He has thrown for 1,536 yards over five games, with five touchdowns and just one interception.

Auburn Morning Rush: Tigers choose uniforms for Georgia, name honorary captain Share this article 178 shares The Montgomery Advertiser—USA Today River Wells October 5, 2022 6:30 am CT It’s Wednesday, which means the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry is quickly approaching. With that in mind, we have two things relating to the Tigers’ frequent matchup against Georgia, with the uniform selection and the team’s honorary captain for the game this Saturday. Outside of that, we highlight a former Auburn kicker who is shining in the NFL with the Las Vegas Raiders and take a look at the baseball team’s SEC slate for 2023 the team has just announced on Twitter. Buy Tigers Tickets With that in mind, grab your coffee and take a gander at this edition of Auburn Wire’s Auburn Morning Rush: Auburn to run with "Stormtrooper" look for Georgia game Matthew OHaren-USA TODAY Sports It’ll be all white for the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. The Auburn Tigers’ Twitter account revealed that the team will wear all-white uniforms against the Georgia Bulldogs, including an all-white facemask. The last time Auburn wore its all-white color scheme was in Week 3 of 2021 during Penn State’s own “White Out” game. Auburn lost that game, but the Tigers are hoping for a reversal of fortune when the two teams face off in Athens, Georgia this weekend. Featured Ranking all 32 NHL teams for the 2022-23 season from least to most watchable Sponsored by ESPN+ Read More Tigers name honorary captain for Deep South's Oldest Rivalry Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics Offensive linemen deserve love, too. The Tigers announced that lineman Brandon Council will serve as the honorary captain for Auburn when the team plays Georgia on Saturday. Council will be moving to center with the massive reshaping of the Tigers line after the LSU game, so it’s only fitting that the offensive line’s main man will serve as an honorary captain. Former Auburn kicker excelling in NFL (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) Former Auburn kicker Daniel Carlson has been proving his worth in Las Vegas. Carlson has so far been a perfect 4/4 on field goals this year for the Raiders, with his longest kick being 55 yards. He’s also currently holding the longest field goal consecutive streak record, with 35 field goals made in a row. That doesn’t account for extra points, unfortunately — he’s missed an extra point this year. Auburn baseball sets SEC schedule (AP Photo/John Peterson) The Auburn baseball team has announced its SEC slate for 2023. The team will play series’ with Georgia, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, LSU and Missouri at home. The team will also play five series’ on the road, taking on Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and Ole Miss. SEC play will begin at the end of march with the Arkansas series first on the slate. Auburn Morning Rush: Tigers choose uniforms for Georgia, name honorary captain Share this article 178 shares The Montgomery Advertiser—USA Today River Wells October 5, 2022 6:30 am CT It’s Wednesday, which means the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry is quickly approaching. With that in mind, we have two things relating to the Tigers’ frequent matchup against Georgia, with the uniform selection and the team’s honorary captain for the game this Saturday. Outside of that, we highlight a former Auburn kicker who is shining in the NFL with the Las Vegas Raiders and take a look at the baseball team’s SEC slate for 2023 the team has just announced on Twitter. Buy Tigers Tickets With that in mind, grab your coffee and take a gander at this edition of Auburn Wire’s Auburn Morning Rush: Auburn to run with "Stormtrooper" look for Georgia game Matthew OHaren-USA TODAY Sports It’ll be all white for the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. The Auburn Tigers’ Twitter account revealed that the team will wear all-white uniforms against the Georgia Bulldogs, including an all-white facemask. The last time Auburn wore its all-white color scheme was in Week 3 of 2021 during Penn State’s own “White Out” game. Auburn lost that game, but the Tigers are hoping for a reversal of fortune when the two teams face off in Athens, Georgia this weekend. Featured Ranking all 32 NHL teams for the 2022-23 season from least to most watchable Sponsored by ESPN+ Read More Tigers name honorary captain for Deep South's Oldest Rivalry Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics Offensive linemen deserve love, too. The Tigers announced that lineman Brandon Council will serve as the honorary captain for Auburn when the team plays Georgia on Saturday. Council will be moving to center with the massive reshaping of the Tigers line after the LSU game, so it’s only fitting that the offensive line’s main man will serve as an honorary captain. Former Auburn kicker excelling in NFL (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) Former Auburn kicker Daniel Carlson has been proving his worth in Las Vegas. Carlson has so far been a perfect 4/4 on field goals this year for the Raiders, with his longest kick being 55 yards. He’s also currently holding the longest field goal consecutive streak record, with 35 field goals made in a row. That doesn’t account for extra points, unfortunately — he’s missed an extra point this year. Auburn baseball sets SEC schedule (AP Photo/John Peterson) The Auburn baseball team has announced its SEC slate for 2023. The team will play series’ with Georgia, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, LSU and Missouri at home. The team will also play five series’ on the road, taking on Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina and Ole Miss. SEC play will begin at the end of march with the Arkansas series first on the slate. Share this article 178 shares Like this article? 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UGA football vs. Auburn: Kickoff time, TV channel, betting line & more 2 minutes The Georgia Bulldogs play the Auburn Tigers on Saturday in Athens, Ga. Here's how to watch or listen to the game. What time do the Georgia Bulldogs play the Auburn Tigers? Kickoff: 3:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct.8 , 2022 Location: Sanford Stadium, Athens, Ga. (Capacity 92,746) Where can I watch the Georgia Bulldogs play Auburn on TV? Tom McCarthy (play-by-play), Rick Neuheisel (analyst) and Sherree Burruss (sideline) will have the call on CBS. That’s 46 on Direct TV in Atlanta and 46 and 6366 on Dish. It is 4/704 on Spectrum Cable in Athens and Atlanta. Streaming options for Georgia-Auburn The game can be seen via live stream on the CBS Sports app and CBSSports.com and with a Paramount+ subscription. Radio for Georgia vs. Auburn Scott Howard (play-by-play), Eric Zeier (analyst) and D.J. Shockley (sideline) will have the Georgia Bulldog Sports network call on 106.1 FM and 960 AM in Athens, 750 AM and 95.5 FM in Atlanta, 580 AM and 95.1 FM in Augusta, 1400 AM and 104.3 FM in Savannah or online at georgiadogs.com. It can be heard on SiriusXM channel 81. Betting: Over/under & point spread As of Tuesday, Georgia is a 29 1/2-point favorite, according to Tipico Sportsbook. The over/under is 49.5 The money line is Georgia -10,000 and Missouri +1500 Series history Georgia leads 62--56-8. Georgia won 34-10 last season in Auburn. The Bulldogs have won five straight against the Tigers. Twitter follows Follow Banner-Herald UGA beat writer @marcweiszer for UGA updates and @Jacob_Shames for Auburn updates. You can follow the team’s official accounts at @GeorgiaFootball and @AuburnFootball.

Still Good Reasons to be at Auburn’s Next Home Game | Lindy's Sports 7-8 minutes It happened five decades ago. Auburn trailed, 16-0, already playing in the fourth quarter. The offense hadn’t even gained 100 yards total offense. It had finally shown a little life, driving within field goal range, facing a fourth-down decision. The math was simple. If the Tigers were going to win this game, they had to score three times and not allow another point. So on fourth down, even though they needed a touchdown, the coaching staff decided to try the field goal. I had come down from the press box by then and was sitting with family under the upper deck in the east stands. When Gardner Jett and Dave Beck came out on the field, the chorus of “boos” from Auburn fans could probably be heard at Elmwood Cemetery. “What a stupid decision!” “They need touchdowns, not field goals!” “That’s just the same as giving up!” And other things that I can’t include here! But the kick was good; the score was 16-3; and what happened in the last few minutes of that game is legendary, one of the most incredible, unbelievable, crazy endings to any football game ever, made possible by that field goal. After the kickoff, Auburn’s defense held, blocked the punt and ran it into the end zone, so the scoreboard now showed 16-10, but there wasn’t much time remaining. Something big had to happen for the Tigers to win … and it did. The defense held again. So on fourth down when the same punter lined up to kick the ball, the same player blocked it, the same player caught it and ran it in for another touchdown, and when the same holder and placekicker converted the extra point, Auburn had the win, 17-16, over Alabama. Over the years, the magnitude of that game has grown. Legion Field held 68,000-plus back then, but I’m sure I’ve talked to 75,000 or more over the years who relived with me their experience in the stadium that day. “Punt, Bama, Punt” became the name by which the game is known. And that team, finishing with a 10-1 record, defeating five teams ranked in the Top 20 and demolishing Colorado in the Gator Bowl, was ranked No. 5 nationally after the season. That team, and that season, became simply known as “The Amazin’s.” What’s amazing to me, and probably to many reading this, is that it’s been 50 years since the “Amazin’s” took the field. Fifty years since “Punt, Bama, Punt.” On October 29 when Arkansas comes to Jordan-Hare Stadium to face Auburn, that team, “The Amazin’s,” will be honored. Before the game, the coaches and players that are still with us will be recognized on Pat Dye Field where they made history that’s still vivid in the minds of Auburn fans. That alone is reason to be there. Of course, there will be some, maybe many, who choose not to be in Lee County that day. That happens when your team hasn’t had a banner season and when expectations are for things to get worse before they get better, if in fact they do get better before this season ends. That happens when you’re playing poorly, leading early then losing a game that you probably should have won (LSU) and leading early and winning a game that you probably should have lost (Missouri). It happens when your schedule is deemed the nation’s most difficult and includes playing on the home field of the two teams that played for last year’s national championship, beginning this weekend against Georgia in Athens. And, it happens when rumors and criticisms and constant negative social media posts, most fueled by members of your own fan base, make it even more difficult for recruits to be impressed and coaches to do their jobs. There’s no desire here to become involved in the Auburn football coaching discussion. There are already too many non-Auburn former SEC football players, as well as commentators and analysts, who have “inside information” and “impeccable sources” that are inserting themselves into the process. This also isn’t to defend the Tigers’ coaching staff for the results since Bryan Harsin took over as head coach. Some 2021 play-calling was indefensible in critical situations and likely was a major factor in losing several games. At least one game was lost in large part due to a late-game missed penalty call that would have changed the outcome. Another saw a large lead squandered in a game where the starting quarterback and veteran placekicker were lost due to season-ending injuries. Then this season, Auburn has blown sizable early leads, committed costly penalties, had critical turnovers and lost several key players to injury. And, don’t even try to explain the pattern that Tiger coaches have established for calling all of their timeouts in the waning minutes of the first half so that opponents can have enough time to score. There have been reasons/excuses that some will use to justify not showing up when Arkansas comes to town. Many of the criticisms are warranted. It’s likely that before Auburn plays another game on its home field, there will be two more losses, possibly by significant margins. If so, are there any other “sure” wins on the schedule? But there are some things to consider before encouraging a hasty mid-season firing of coach Harsin: Wisconsin fired head coach Paul Chryst, but he had coached 88 games in Madison. Nebraska parted ways with Scott Frost, but he had coached 47 games in Lincoln. Georgia Tech released Geoff Collins, but he had coached 38 games in Atlanta. It took Dabo Swinney four seasons to win 10 games at Clemson. Mike Gundy didn’t have a 10-game winning season until his sixth year at Oklahoma State. It took Jim Harbaugh at MIchigan seven seasons to win a Big Ten championship. And Kirby Smart didn’t win the team’s first national title in 42 years until his sixth year as Georgia’s head coach. Harsin has only coached 18 games at Auburn, winning nine of those. Is that long enough to accurately predict what is going to happen? Maybe so, but is that reason for a midseason firing? Who would be the logical replacement as interim head coach for the rest of the 2022 campaign? Would it make the Auburn job less attractive if the coaching position is changed again after just 18 games? Here’s an unsolicited suggestion for Auburn people, the folks that are usually in their Jordan-Hare seats – Look for positive reasons to be there and dwell on those. Don’t look for negative reasons not to be there, and then make things worse by spouting them publicly. The 1972 team – The Amazin’s – will be on the field again on October 29, a field where they won so many games and made so many memories. Enjoy that time with family and friends and relive those days of Terry Henley and Harry Unger, Benny Sivley and Danny Sanspree, James Owens “The Big O” and “The Ugly Duckling” Randy Walls. Realistically, not many good things are likely for the rest of the 2022 season. But, be there anyway. Amazin’ things have happened before.

oh bullcrap. sad that you cannot get anything on me other than trying to say three plus three equals one. and stop with the fake outrage. but this is what you do.you try to twist facts. i am pretty sure you said jan 6 was blown out of proportion as well .. jesus would not approve.how is that lie working out for you?. let me draw you a fookin picture here. i guarantee you if i had thought you were violent in your hatred i would have turned you in and you would probably not be here anymore. you try to do the same thing with politics. you are completely dishonest. in fact for that big lie i rebuke you in the name of jesus christ our lord.

you did not watch the videos i posted. so quit saying i am bashing. i do not have to. all i have to do is post the news,period. believe what ya want but you are so far off base with me it is laughable.

oh quit crying. good lord. dude you have plenty of your own moments and if i can give you some advice? quit thinking for me cus its wrong.i have never said i thought you would kill someone ever. never crossed my mind. and i am buzzed so if you are trying to claim in some weird way i have ever threatened anyone on here you would be lying. i want to be very clear on that. i am absolutely sitting here wondering just what the hell is wrong with you?

Young receivers stepping up for Auburn Updated: Oct. 04, 2022, 3:44 p.m.|Published: Oct. 04, 2022, 3:43 p.m. 3-4 minutes By Nubyjas Wilborn | nwilborn@al.com Auburn (3-2, 2-1) didn’t celebrate quarterback Robby Ashford’s 20th birthday with a victory. The Tigers blew a 17-0 lead during Saturday’s 21-17 loss against LSU. Moral victories don’t exist in the Southeastern Conference, especially when head coach Bryan Harsin’s seat is hotter than fish grease. As difficult as it was to lose after allowing 21 unanswered points, there was positivity in Ashford connecting with his wide receivers. Ashford quickly broke the four-game streak of Auburn not having a touchdown pass to a wide receiver on the game’s first drive. He rolled out as the pocket broke down to throw a laser to Ja’Varrius Johnson for 53 yards. Read More Auburn Football: What ESPN’s College Football Power Index says about Auburn after LSU loss Is Robby Ashford ready to elevate as Auburn’s QB1? Instant Analysis: Auburn drops a 17-point lead in 21-17 loss against LSU “You want to be able to run it and throw it. And be able to move the ball down the field, because a lot of those big plays came in the passing game,” Harsin said. “That’s where our chunk yardage was in the passing game. And that was good for us. And you know, to move the ball down the field, be explosive, get into better field position, you’ve got to do that. And I thought we did some of those things well tonight.” Camden Brown caught his first career touchdown pass on an 18-yard throw in the end zone from Ashford. Earlier in the week, Ashford was asked about the lack of production from the wide receivers. We’ve got dogs in that room, and we haven’t been able to show it as much, Ashford said. We’ve got a lot of ballers, and they’re just waiting to pop out. I think they will really soon. Koy Moore had a 33-yard reception against his former team. Moore finished the game with four catches for 55 yards. It was the second game when Moore had multiple catches. Omari Kelly had a big 25-yard catch in the second half. The freshman is one of several receivers developing chemistry with Ashford this season. Ashford spread the ball while throwing for 337 yards against LSU. Moore, Kelly, Brown, and Johnson each caught passes. Ashford also had completions to running backs Tank Bigsby and Jarquez Hunter. Tight ends John Samuel Shenker, and Tyler Fromm caught balls from Ashford. Auburn ran several four, and five wide receiver sets against LSU. The Tigers successfully got the ball to its wide receivers versus LSU in ways they hadn’t this season. Auburn hopes to see more when the team plays Georgia this weekend. “Our young wide receivers have been thrust into playing, Omari Kelly has a big catch, and Camden Brown has a big catch. Var had a couple of big catches in there as well,” Harsin said. “Those things were good. That was encouraging to see some young players step up and do some things on the perimeter.” “We obviously have to be better than that going into this game and every game moving forward because we weren’t good enough to win the football game, but overall, there were some positive things in the pass game that I thought helped us.” Nubyjas Wilborn covers Auburn for Alabama Media Group.

This is how the Voting Rights Act ends Published: Oct. 04, 2022, 5:00 a.m. 5-7 minutes This is a column. When I was a kid in rural Alabama, I didn’t enjoy professional wrestling — or rasslin’ — nearly as much as my friends seemed to. Before the bell rang at school, I’d hear breathless reports of what Rowdy Roddy Piper had done the night before, but for me, there was something about a predetermined contest that took the excitement out of the so-called sport. The few times I tried to get into it, I figured out pretty early on who was going to win. And today, there’s something equally less thrilling about to happen inside this courthouse across the street from the U.S. Capitol. Above the front door, it says “Equal Justice Under Law” etched into the facade, but I can’t shake the feeling it’s only that — a facade. This here has all the markings of a rigged game. But unlike those matches on TBS so long ago, this one will have consequences — for Alabama. And for America. On Tuesday, the state of Alabama will defend its congressional district map before the United States Supreme Court. Few expect Alabama to lose. The only question is what this country looks like after the state wins. Earlier this year, a three-judge panel — including two Trump appointees — found that Alabama had violated the Constitution by drawing too many Black people into the state’s only majority-Black congressional district. It was a surprising outcome unfavorable to the state’s Republican supermajority. The judges ordered the Alabama Legislature to draw a new district map, but the Legislature — which had drawn the original map in a matter of days — said it couldn’t meet the court’s deadline. The three-judge panel gave the state a deadline, after which it would draw the state’s new congressional map for it. That’s when the U.S. Supreme Court intervened. Using its so-called “shadow docket,” the court stayed the lower court ruling until it could hear the case — after Alabama’s 2022 primaries. For now, the Supreme Court reinstated the Alabama Legislature’s district map. And the court may not deliver a ruling in the case until next year, well after the general election next month. The higher court’s intervention sent a clear message. If Constitutional rights or fair representation for Black voters were at risk, the court cared less about those things than it did getting another election done with. Putting something on the back burner says everything about where it lands on your list of priorities. But this case isn’t only about how many seats one party or the other has in Alabama and in Congress. It’s about the Voting Rights Act, or what’s left of it. And that’s what’s really at stake when the court hears oral arguments today. Already, Alabama has played an outsized role in the voting rights of Black Americans. It was the march from Selma to Montgomery that set the Voting Rights Act on its way into law. And Alabama is where, too, the Voting Rights Act might meet its end. Already, Shelby v. Holder gutted the pre-clearance provisions of the law, which required states and counties with a history of racial discrimination and voter suppression to seek the Justice Department’s permission before changing district lines or voting practices. No sooner had the court struck that part of the law than Alabama had enacted voter ID and it attempted to close drivers license offices in predominately Black counties. Now comes our home state for the rest of the VRA — Section 2, which draws a fine line regarding drawing districts. Section 2 prohibits states from diluting the influence of minority voters. The plaintiffs in Merrill v. Milligan have argued that the latest district map packs too many Black voters into one oddly shaped congressional district, winding from downtown Birmingham to Tuscaloosa to the Black Belt and back around to Montgomery all while avoiding GOP enclaves in Shelby County and other suburbs. The drawing of Alabama’s 7th District effectively limits the influence of Black voters in Alabama when there are enough Black voters to justify two majority- (or near-majority) Black districts. The trouble here is — and this is the metal folding chair propped conspicuously outside the ring — is that it’s hard to tell Alabama, on one hand, it must give Black voters fair influence in congressional elections but then, on the other hand, tell the state it can’t draw district lines based on race. The signs are there that the conservative majority on the court could use this case to gut Section 2 and severely limit what’s left of the law. At which point, there’s no guarantee the state will not act as it did before, using its new license to the advantage of its majority partisan interests. And as Alabama goes, so goes the nation. This script seems to be written. The winner is set. But this ain’t rasslin’. When it’s over, somebody’s going to get hurt. For real. Kyle Whitmire is the state political columnist for the Alabama Media Group, 2020 winner of the Walker Stone Award, winner of the 2021 SPJ award for opinion writing, and 2021 winner of the Molly Ivins prize for political commentary. You can follow his work on his Facebook page, The War on Dumb. And on Twitter. And on Instagram.

Auburn failing in crucial 'middle 8' moments under Bryan Harsin Updated: Oct. 04, 2022, 8:10 a.m.|Published: Oct. 04, 2022, 7:05 a.m. 6-8 minutes Bryan Harsin is a big believer in momentum and the role it can play on Saturdays. Unfortunately for the second-year Auburn coach, his team has a poor track record of generating it — and, conversely, keeping opponents from gathering some of their own — just before halftime. In each of Auburn’s five games this season, opponents have scored a touchdown inside the final two minutes of the first half. In the last four games, those opponent touchdowns have either put Auburn behind heading into halftime, tied the game or — as was the case last weekend — trimmed the Tigers’ lead to a field goal at the break. Read more Auburn football: Anders Carlson still has Auburn’s “full support” despite recent field goal struggles Auburn edge Eku Leota out for season with pectoral injury Statistically speaking: Auburn committing turnovers at alarming rate “That’s a big one,” Harsin said. “That’s probably one of the biggest in my opinion, right? You don’t want anybody to score, and you want to score points going into halftime. I think it’s all about momentum. And that’s one area, when you’ve got the ball, it’s not just about scoring touchdowns, it’s just about scoring points, alright? Try to create some momentum, especially if you get the ball back in the second half…. So, being on the losing side of that, yeah, I mean that’s — you go in, they scored, alright, really that’s the momentum that they’ve got. And when you come into halftime, you’ve got to find a way to get that back.” The problem for Auburn is that it largely has been unable to get those points back coming out of the locker room, as the team has struggled in the “middle eight” — the four minutes on either side of halftime, which often play critical roles in the outcome of any given game. Auburn has been outscored 42-7 in the middle eight this season, and Harsin’s team has failed to win those crucial eight minutes in any game this year. Auburn has lost the middle eight in four of its five games, while it managed to come out even in that period of gametime in Week 2 against San Jose State (the Spartans scored a touchdown with 58 seconds left in the first half to take a 10-7 lead at the break, but the Tigers responded with a Tank Bigsby touchdown with 11:45 to go in the third to cap their opening drive coming out of the locker room). It’s part of a troubling trend for Auburn under Harsin, which particularly struggled in the middle section of games against Power 5 competition last season. Auburn was outpaced, 59-13, in the middle eight of those nine games — eight SEC contests plus the Penn State game — and only held an advantage in that area once: in the Iron Bowl, outscoring Alabama 3-0 in that stretch before ultimately losing in a quadruple-overtime thriller. Those issues have extended into this season, with Auburn outscored 28-0 in the middle sections of its last three games (its only games against Power 5 opponents so far). Penn State held a 14-0 edge in that stretch during the Week 3 tilt at Jordan-Hare Stadium, including a Kaytron Allen rushing touchdown with 1:46 to go in the first half to extend the Nittany Lions’ lead to 14-6 at halftime. Missouri and LSU each managed a 7-0 advantage in that area; Missouri’s Brady Cook scored from 1 yard out with 30 seconds left in the first half to tie the game at 14-14, while LSU’s Jayden Daniels had a 1-yard touchdown run with 15 seconds remaining in the half, cutting Auburn’s lead to 17-14, as Harsin’s team eventually blew a 17-point lead in a 21-17 loss last weekend. In 12 games under Harsin, Auburn has now been outscored 87-13 in that crucial period of games against Power 5 opponents. “That’s a big factor, in my opinion, at halftime, giving up points or trying to get them,” Harsin said. Auburn’s Middle 8 struggles in 2022: Opponent Middle 8 score How Mercer Mercer 7, Auburn 0 Fred Payton 5-yard touchdown pass with 20 seconds left in first half San Jose State San Jose State 7, Auburn 7 Kairee Robinson 1-yard touchdown run with 58 seconds left in first half; Tank Bigsby 1-yard touchdown run with 11:45 to go in third quarter. Penn State Penn State 14, Auburn 0 Kaytron Allen 3-yard rushing touchdown with 1:46 left in first half; Nick Singleton 1-yard touchdown run with 12:16 left in third quarter. Missouri Missouri 7, Auburn 0 Brady Cook 1-yard touchdown run with 30 seconds remaining in first half. LSU LSU 7, Auburn 0 Jayden Daniels 1-yard touchdown run with 15 seconds to go until halftime. Complicating the matter for Auburn has been the team’s well-documented second-half struggles under Harsin. In the Tigers’ last eight games against Power 5 teams, they have been outscored 104-21 in regulation after halftime. The team is 2-6 during that stretch, with wins against Ole Miss late last October and the fortunate overtime escape against Missouri two weeks ago. Over the last three weeks, excluding the overtime period against Missouri, Auburn has managed just one second-half score — a fourth-quarter touchdown (followed by a failed two-point conversion) in a blowout loss to Penn State. Auburn has been outscored, 34-6, after halftime of those three games while averaging just 0.32 points per drive and committing five turnovers (along with three more turnovers on downs). “We look at every game and we know the reasons, alright?” Harsin said. “We know the reasons. We look at every drive. There’s a drive chart. There’s a result. There’s reasons why, and so we break it all down. You know, what was it? Where did we have a negative play? Where did we have positive plays? What was the end result on those drives? So, those are things that we’ve discussed as a staff, those are things we discuss with our players.” According to Harsin, the biggest issues have been consistency and negative plays. Auburn needs to find more of the former and cut down on the latter — which it hasn’t been able to do against quality competition. “That’s play-calling, that’s execution; that’s all those things,” Harsin said. “I mean, it’s really not one thing in particular that’s just the glaring reason why. It’s things that we all have to improve on and get better at. And then our adjustments coming out of half, we’ve got to be able to find ways to continue to put points on the board. “It’s not just the half of football; you’ve got to play all four quarters.” 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.

tell him to name three people you have killed...............

i bet you could care less if the mother dies in some back alley abortion. babies are not people until a certain way. you say what you want but you cannot change the science. i am pretty sure i read where the baby has to have a working brain up until a certain point.

jesus. all those kids killed and sick for life and they get away with it over a mistake?the horror.

well thank you jj. that was not so hard was it? i had lunch with my preacher friend today and he dislikes what he sees happening. is is also huge on the constitution and he said he would never want to see this country turned into a theocracy because he liked the rights afforded to people in this country.

Participating in her second day of oral arguments on Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tangled with Alabama’s solicitor general in a case challenging Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting policies. The justices agreed to review a lower court’s opinion that found Alabama’s redrawn 2021 congressional map was likely a violation of the law because it includes only one majority Black district out of seven, despite the fact that Black voters account for 27% of the state’s voting population. In January, the three-judge panel — including two district judges appointed by former President Donald Trump — ordered a new map to be drawn with an additional majority Black district, which likely would have gained Democrats a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives this fall. The order was frozen by the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the state’s appeal. Ketanji Brown Jackson delivers remarks at the White House on April 8 after her confirmation to the Supreme Court. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) In court Tuesday, Edmund LaCour, Alabama’s solicitor general, argued that the map was “race-neutral,” and that the order for a new map would put the state at odds with the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution because it would have to prioritize race in redistricting. Jackson wondered why LaCour would make such a claim given that framers of the 14th Amendment — which guaranteed equal protection to all people, including former slaves — did not intend it to be “race-neutral or race-blind.” “I don’t think we can assume that just because race is taken into account that that necessarily creates an equal protection problem,” Jackson said. She said the framers themselves adopted the Equal Protection Clause “in a race-conscious way.” “The entire point of the amendment was to secure rights of the freed former slaves,” Jackson said. Jackson, the court’s newest justice and first Black woman ever to sit on its bench, then cited the Civil Rights Act of 1866, “which specifically stated that Black citizens would have the same civil rights as enjoyed by white citizens.” “I don’t think that the historical record establishes that the founders believed that race neutrality or race blindness was required,” she said. “That’s the point of that act, to make sure that the other citizens, the Black citizens, would have the same [rights] as the white citizens.” The case is one of nine the Supreme Court has agreed to hear involving a range of major issues, including affirmative action, the rights of LGBTQ people and election laws. A decision is expected to come later this term.

so when you get after me which is every time i post for the most part you are not a hater when you come down on me? i am pretty sure we are close in that regard.

well i have never heard of girl being a bad thing to call a woman so this is all new to me. and i love women. some even love me back.but still a she is a girl right?

was there not several on here that claimed that? man i hate having a bad memory. OMG I_ and JJ i am so bad now i am hating my memory. lord help i have finally gone under.....

is a she not a girl? good lord you are one strange cat and i know strange very well. i understand what you did and unfortunately so did others.

well if he is a she quit blowing her skirt up!

it is not in my nature but i bought a couple of weapons after seeing enough threats towards libs from your side i got nervous. i did not get an assault rifle but lets just say if you come through the door i am going to blow you right back out. no one will hurt me anymore if i can help it. but i have been carrying a small peashooter over forty years. legally of course. but that being said i do not want to hurt anyone if i can help it.

who was that saying it was only a protest?

The trial of five members of the Oath Keepers militia group who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot began Monday in the D.C. district courthouse. Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Jessica Watkins, Thomas Caldwell, and Kenneth Harrelson are standing trial just across the street from the white marbled complex where a little less than two years ago a crowd of Trump supporters beat police and stormed the halls of Congress in an attempt to prevent the certification of the 2020 election. Following opening arguments, the prosecution presented footage of Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes shortly after Jan. 6, asserting that his “only regret is that they should have brought rifles,” and that having been armed inside the Capitol would have “fixed it right then and there.” More from Rolling Stone Jan. 6 Audio: Oath Keepers Vowed to Harm Congress Members Your Handy Guide to the Absolute Worst People in American Politics 'Very Strong' Evidence: Why a Federal Judge Wants a Top Jan. 6 Defendant Jailed Until Trial Rhodes and his counterparts were indicted on charges of seditious conspiracy. According to the Department of Justice, “Rhodes conspired with his co-defendants and others to oppose by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of presidential power by Jan. 20, 2021.” The DOJ’s argument against the conspirators centers around claims that under Rhodes’ direction members of the Oath Keepers and their allies conspired to carry out what amounted to a paramilitary offensive against the U.S. government on Jan. 6. If convicted, the charge of seditious conspiracy carries a maximum 20-year sentence. “These conspirators’ narrative is that they were patriots. They were not,” the DOJ argued in its opening statement. Like many of the Jan. 6 cases that have gone to trial, the prosecution took advantage of the defendants’ willingness to document their activity and leave an electronic footprint. The DOJ quoted extensively from communications between the Oath Keepers, including instructions from Rhodes on Jan. 8 to purge any references to Jan. 6 from their social media and “shut the **** up” about what had happened. The Oath Keepers’ legal team countered by asserting the DOJ is misrepresenting the mountain of contemporaneous evidence it presented. Throughout opening arguments, presiding Judge Amit P. Mehta reprimanded the defense multiple times for attempting to reference media coverage of the case to the jury. The DOJ’s opening witness, FBI Agent Michael Palian, described seeing members of the Senate crying during the evacuation of the Capitol. In a recording previously obtained by the Jan. 6 committee, members of the Oath Keepers communicating via walkie-talkies state that any legislator found in the building should expect “no safe place.” The militia members’ defense appears to largely center around the argument that they went to the Capitol “to do security on the 5th and 6th,” and “are not a violent group.” The assertion is unlikely to hold much water against evidence of weapons caches, planned “Quick Reaction Forces,” video, and a seemingly endless parade of recorded statements indicating the defendants desire to commit violence on Jan. 6. Nevertheless, “Even though it may look inflammatory,” the defense argued on Monday, “they did nothing illegal.” Best of Rolling Stone