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Rogers and lack of Auburn pass rush spark huge MSU comeback ByMark Murphy 4-5 minutes 2 Minute Drill: Auburn blows big lead in loss to Miss. State AUBURN, Alabama–Leading 28-3 late in the second quarter, Auburn lost its offensive momentum and the defense collapsed as Will Rogers went wild passing the football against the Auburn Tigers. The result was a 43-34 SEC victory for Mississippi State on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium as the Tigers surrendered 40 uncontested points and gave up six passing touchdowns. The home team also surrendered any outside chance it had to stay in the race for the divisional title by allowing the visiting Bulldogs to score 40 straight points beginning with their first touchdown drive of the day, moving 75 yards on 10 plays just before halftim After holding the Mississippi State offense to 155 yards in the first half, with 144 through the air, time after time Rogers found open receivers on mostly short and medium pass routes against the Auburn defense. On almost every occasion he was able to throw without any pressure and he often had time to go to his secondary receivers on whatever route he chose. “I thought in the first half we got more pressure on him,” Auburn’s head coach, Bryan Harsin, said of how the Tigers dealt with Rogers and the MSU passing attack. “At least we made him move from his alignment in the pocket so at least we got him off his spot more than we did in the second half. I think their offensive line did a good job of making adjustments. “I don’t know why we didn’t get as much pressure and why he felt more comfortable in the second half than the first half,” said Harsin, whose team spent most of the day rushing three players vs. the Mississippi State quarterback. In the third quarter Rogers completed 17-18 passes for 198 yards as the Bulldogs scored on drives of 75 yards and 98 plays to cut the lead to 28-23 going in the fourth quarter. The final quarter wasn’t any better for the Auburn defense, Rogers hit 7-8 of passes for 73 yards while the Bulldogs added 60 yards on the ground in the period. They took the lead with 13:28 left on a six-yard pass play after moving 72 yards in just six plays. Two more quick score drives of 55 yards on five plays and 45 yards on four plays after an Auburn fake punt pass attempt was incomplete sealed the home team’s fate on Saturday to the dismay of a sellout crowd at Jordan-Hare Stadium. With the loss the Tigers dropped to 6-4 overall and 3-3 in the SEC. Will Rogers finds plenty of time to throw the ball vs. the Auburn defense. (Photo: John Reed, USA TODAY Sports) For the game the Auburn defense allowed the Bulldogs to finish with 487 yards on 75 plays. Rogers completed 44-55 passes for 415 yards and was not intercepted. Unlike the previous week in a loss at Texas A&M where Auburn’s offense was shut down for all four quarters and the defense gave the Tigers a chance to win, this week Auburn’s offense scored five touchdowns. However, only one of those came in the second half and that came with 3:37 left in the fourth quarter that was too little, too late. Auburn's quarterback, Bo Nix, hurt an ankle and missed the final Auburn possession. Nix completed 27-41 passes for 377 yards and two touchdowns before giving way to T.J. Finley, who lost a fumble on Auburn's final offensive possession. 26COMMENTS Asked how the team can bounce back from the loss, Harsin said, “One it comes back to loving football. That is going to be challenge because when you win everything is good. When you lose you start to question yourself and the things you are doing.” Harsin added, “We absolutely talked about that in the locker room. It is the same message going back to fall camp and spring practice about what it takes to be successful,” he said about the desire to win games and improve individually and as a team in the process. ">247Sports

theplainsman.com Nix now all time leader in total offense by Auburn quarterbacks Last Updated 17 hours ago 4 minutes Bo Nix (10) warms up before a football game between Ole Miss and Auburn on Oct. 30, 2021, from Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, AL, USA. Bo Nix has added another Auburn record to his resume. With his 23-yard pass to Kobe Hudson in the second quarter of the game against Mississippi State, Nix surpassed Stan White for most offensive yards by a quarterback in Auburn history. White, who had 7,920 yards of offense for Auburn from 1990-93, held the record for nearly three decades. It now belongs to Nix, who has 7,936 yards following the play. That number will only grow as the game against Mississippi State continues. The junior quarterback also surpassed Brandon Cox for third all-time in passing yardage earlier in the game. Nix still trails White in a couple of categories, being No. 2 in passing attempts and pass completions in Auburn history. Sign up for our newsletter Get The Plainsman straight to your inbox.

Auburn Football Baffling day at Auburn ends with serious questions Updated: Nov. 13, 2021, 5:13 p.m. | Published: Nov. 13, 2021, 5:13 p.m. 270 shares By Joseph Goodman | jgoodman@al.com It’s impossible to know if Auburn’s stunning collapse to Mississippi State on Saturday would have been different based on one play. Maybe, but probably not. When a team blows a 25-point lead, and that collapse is the worst in school history, and it’s Mississippi State that’s on the other sideline inside Jordan-Hare Stadium, one play probably isn’t going to mean that much to anyone on the silent drive home. That doesn’t mean this one play in particular is any less significant, though. Auburn’s season under first-year coach Bryan Harsin fell off the cliff with its 43-34 loss to Mississippi State, and it was painful to watch a team with so much promise at halftime blow it all like that, but tucked inside that historically bad second half was the controversial ejection for targeting on Auburn pass rusher T.D. Moultry. Where to begin? How about here? The call by the replay booth was violently awful. The decision to kick Moultry out of the game was unforgivably unnecessary. Somebody, please help it make sense. Harsin wasn’t that guy after the game. He indicated that the field officials didn’t see anything to qualify it as targeting. “They saw what I saw,” Harsin said, who added that it was a “momentum-changing play” that “wasn’t called on the field.” Somebody, anybody, please explain how the evolution of targeting — a very important rule in college football — has evolved to the point that arguably the best defensive play in an SEC football game is instead penalized for 15 yards, an automatic first down and, most egregiously of all, an injection from the game. No, that play isn’t why Auburn lost, but it could have been the thing to resuscitate Auburn’s chances in one of its most important games of the season. RELATED: Auburn suffers all-time collapse RELATED: Inside Auburn’s stunning loss, and State’s 40 unanswered points It was either rage inducing, soul crushing or frightening for the Auburn supporters still watching the game at that point. As a mostly unbiased observer, I wanted to throw my laptop at the windows inside the David E. Housel press box. It was a beautiful football play. Moultry broke through the Mississippi State offensive line, left his feet as if trying to position himself to deflect a pass but then registered a sack when Bulldogs quarterback Will Rogers pulled the ball down. Yes, it was helmet to helmet. No, there was no intent to injure Mississippi State’s quarterback. Moultry was called for targeting, but he did not “target” the quarterback. It was not a “dirty” play, and it didn’t even seem like a dangerous play. Earlier in the second half, the helmet of Mississippi State defensive back Emmanuel Forbes Jr. collided painfully with the helmet of Auburn receiver Kobe Hudson on a questionable play. A flag was thrown for targeting, but upon review, despite it being helmet to helmet, it was overturned because, clearly, Forbes’ intent wasn’t to harm and he was going for the interception. It was a football play, in other words … just like Moultry’s. Y’all, again, please help it make sense. There was a lengthy review after Moultry’s sack, too, and third and 21 turned into first and 10 and Moultry, who had rightly celebrated the sack, was, just that fast, gone. Kicked out of the game. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve written about “bad calls” determining the outcomes of games, and this horrendous call, in my opinion, doesn’t qualify as that, but it does help me understand the difficult job defenders and defensive coaches now have in this game. They can’t play it the way they were taught their entire lives. Again, Moultry was innocent of targeting, and everyone knew it, but he was booted for a play because intent isn’t supposed to matter (unless it does) and because — trust me, I get it — preventing brain injuries and keeping players healthy has to matter more than anything else. Auburn quarterback Bo Nix saw the replay, and got it right. “Just getting to the quarterback is all you’re thinking about,” Nix said. “It’s one of those frustrating things, but that’s football and it happens.” Remember the circumstances before the play for context. Auburn was still in the game, and trailing by eight, with 6:35 left on the clock. After the first down for targeting, Mississippi State scored its sixth straight second-half touchdown to go up 43-28. For Auburn (6-4, 3-3), it was a devastating second half for its chances to remain in the hunt for the SEC West crown. Auburn led this game 28-3 in the first half thanks to excellent performances by both the offense and defense. What happened at halftime? Long will we be asking that question. RELATED: What Bryan Harsin said after Auburn’s loss to Mississippi State RELATED: Auburn offense loses momentum in collapse It will forever remain a mystery, but it seemed like everyone on Auburn’s sideline emerged from the locker room with the same kind of energy level people might experience after eating an entire turkey and three pecan pies while slamming back whiskey sweet tea. Lethargic doesn’t even begin to describe the offensive line. Tired is what Auburn fans call questions about Harsin’s vaccination status. This team was sleep walking towards the edge of oblivion and didn’t seem to care. Until Moultry’s sack. And then that shot of momentum lasted long enough to review a play and seal the fate of a game. The defense allowed 40 unanswered points, so it shouldn’t have even been in that situation at all. For Moultry, though, it was the heartbreaking conclusion to a sequence of events that should have been, or could have been, his single greatest on-field contribution to Auburn football in his entire career. He’s a senior, and he has been through a lot while at Auburn, but he has worked and worked, and his persistence was supposed to pay off on that field against Mississippi State. Instead, the replay booth took that all away. Joseph Goodman is a columnist for the Alabama Media Group. He’s on Twitter @JoeGoodmanJr. His first book, “We Want Bama: A season of hope and the making of Nick Saban’s ‘ultimate team,’ is available wherever books are sold.

The Bo haters are about to find out why he was our QB.

i want more. much much more. i want him to get fired and exposed for any cheating he did.

good point. fair is fair.

i am betting that evile bobo was telling bo to shake it off and get back in the game and take one for the team. bad joke i know. yes it is a joke folks. but it also speaks of the heart of a champion bo has in a left handed kind of way because bo is that kid. thia stuff is so weird because bo seemed fine in his post game video.

well some say leach is the best O guy in the country. shrugs. it is year one. it is still hard but i am thinking at least we did not lose to mullins today which would have made me lose it. i cannot stand that lying sack of garbage or his wife. they smeared cam and i have not forgotten.

those are great points i had not considered. sometimes being hard to work for is not a bad thing if you are not mistreating anyone. i have high hopes for harsin and altho i am baffled about today we do not know all the reasons and he is going to say very little. but this is his first year and i expect much better down the road. and i want him to learn from his mistakes if and when he makes them. the man left a cushy job to come down here for a chance to compete for natty's and that part i did notice. i believe on the auburn board on the rant some sports writer just gave him hell but a lot of it seemed off. but for the record i am a harsin guy.

i agree two thousand percent. at 66 i am desperate for the good times. i am afraid i will be gone and not get to see them. sad but true.................

a reg on here was in alaska and did not get to watch it. i am pretty sure i will not be............grins

i was not going to but dag had not gotten to see it and there might have been others. but you are so right. if i watched it would be first half and no more. i will keep up with visitor counts and see. but hey i did post last nights basketball game on the roundball board..................grins

bo i think got injured at penn state and played hurt against ga state. he mentioned it in one of his clips this year and played it off like it was nothing big. i think maybe it was thus we get good bo and bad bo. nothing else makes much sense to me.

you are both right. coach boom comes to mind as a mercenary or using us until something better comes along. he cares little for auburn. he makes a big deal out of beating us. he stayed a year and bolted when he got a chance too. but lord i wish we had some of the badass recruits like he got for us in one season.

i was not jumping you at all. i am confused about bobo. a ton of people say he sucks and others seem to think he is the right fit at the right time for coaching up qb's and all that. i was just saying it is harsins call because i saw an assistant coach try to change a player without the head coaches approval and got dressed down on it. it was in the sports news but my memory is getting worse as i cannot remember who it was.

are you serious? how much leeway bobo has in play calling we do not know right? and harsin is a O guy and bobo was hired to run stuff in line with or exactly what harsin wants on O. if i am head coach and my butt is on the line he best be running what i want. but we shall see in the off season. but my point is what about bobo's son being recruited to auburn? we need them and they say he has a mean streak. so it will be interesting to see what happens after the season and recruiting is over.

i have no idea. i know the video's after a big win in the locker room with harsin and the team both celebrating make it look like free love at woodstock. lol anyway we have harsin for another two years i imagine so i will get behind him like i did gus. i have loved some auburn coaches but at the end of the day a coach does not really dictate my love for auburn. i just love auburn for auburn. and i will pull for auburn no matter how bad we look. it is a very special and sacred place for me.

can bobo make the call to pull bo out? if the other guys suck and dd is not ready harsin has to play who gives him the best chance to win if it does not cause a serious threat to bo's health tho right? just thought i would throw another angle at you. i am certainly no coach and just making a guess from this mess.

harsin is not the type to air his dirty laundry so to speak. and time will tell. harsin cannot fire every single coach he has right? lets see what he does after the season is over along with december when most recruits sign now. unless he is scheming stuff like a three man line to keep players fresherbecause we have no quality depth i expect him to make some changes on the staff. and again, if he is not running some weird schemes to get us through games then there are some changes that need to be made with coaching. harsin seems like a smart guy so there has to be some kind of reason he is letting things go on like they are instead of preaching tech and fundamentals. i have read on other boards that harsin is really hard to work for. if this is true plus he is still learning we might be in trouble. when he took the arky state job i believe he struggled to win 7 games. i am just thinking out loud and reserve the right to change my mind.

here you go dag.

i will post the game for you when it makes it to youtube.sometimes with a loss it takes a couple of days.

you are such a joke. i do not believe in abortion. and just because i am a dem does not mean i agree with everything they stand for. and you talk like trump would be forgiven but not a dem? and with all the nuts on the right why would you think anyone would give you a say so over their body? since abortion is not against the law i believe that should be between the person and god. certainly not you. as usual you forgot to mention the types of abortion you speak of were banned by congress in 2003. in fact the supreme court upheld this ban in 2007. so "current liberal democratic philosophy" you talk about does not even happen anymore. non disclosure of leaving the ban out in 2003 is the same as lying. but again i personally do not believe in abortion and if i had a child the child would be born and i would raise it. so why keep bringing it up with me?

Five reasons why Auburn basketball is going to win the SEC Lance Dawe 4-5 minutes It’s never to late to pump some sunshine. Auburn played decently well against Morehead State on Tuesday night in a 77-54 win. The Tigers let off the gas in the second half, but overall their talent was shining through, and as a fan that’s what I wanted to see most. I know there are a lot of folks high up on teams like Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, and even LSU and Mississippi State. The Southeastern Conference has a loaded field of teams this season. But I think the Tigers of Auburn are going to be the ones that come out on top. Here are five reasons why. John Reed-USA TODAY Sports Pick your poison. Zep Jasper, KD Johnson, and Wendell Green Jr. all provide valuable skills to this backcourt that I believe complement each other. Zep is the steady presence that can handle the ball, distribute, and play solid defense. He’s the all-around guy. Then there’s KD Johnson, a physical presence you don’t often see out of the guard spot. He can drive, he can shoot, and he can give you an earful on both ends of the floor. Wendell Green Jr. is the wild card. He might be the smallest of the group, but he has something I don’t believe a lot of players on this team have: the ability to take over a game offensively. If Green Jr. (a.k.a Jared Harper 2.0) is going to output numbers as he did against Morehead State (19 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists) every other night, he will be one of the most valuable pieces in all of college basketball. John Reed-USA TODAY Sports Auburn might have been one of the best shot-blocking teams in the nation last season, but now they have some more defense inside to back that up. Walker Kessler has been phenomenal through two games (exhibition vs USI and MSU) in terms of his blocking and inside defense. Don’t forget about Dylan Cardwell, Jaylin Williams, Jabari Smith, and Babatunde Akingbola. John Reed-USA TODAY Sports What do I mean by that? When Chuma started playing at Auburn, while his volume of production wasn’t large, there was something very apparent about him. He was smooth. He was fluid with the basketball. It was clear from the beginning that Okeke had the ability to develop into an NBA player if he started to cut loose, and Auburn fans were able to see it at the end of the Final Four season before he was injured. Jabari Smith has untapped potential written all over him. Smith looks selfless but confident, agile creating shots, but also physical at the rim. And you can tell he is passionate about playing college basketball. He has that “Chuma Okeke” look about him. Give it time. By March he’ll be ready to lead this team. John Reed-USA TODAY Sports Speaking of leaders… it’s clear, at least to me, that Auburn needs help at the small forward position. Not help in terms of having a lack of depth or talent (because the Tigers are using the depth they have very well at that position right now) but in terms of leadership. Right now, Auburn looks like a team. no major standouts to speak of (Wendell will cool off). What they need is a vocal leader. Getting Flanigan back in his natural position will be a dangerous thing for opponents. How do you guard a lineup consisting of Wendell Green Jr, KD Johnson/Zep Jasper, Allen Flanigan, Jabari Smith, and Walker Kessler? The Tigers need their glue back, and fast. AP Photo/Butch Dill There is one big thing that this team seems to lack right now, and that’s chemistry. It’s very clear watching the team in person that they love each other, and they are playing for each other. What they need is on the court chemistry. Fast breaks flow easier. Ball movement in the halfcourt is smoother. Fighting through screens and switching on defense is more aggressive. By no means was what we saw against Morehead State a perfect product. But what it was is something the Tigers can build on. If that performance is the starting point for this Auburn team they can go a very, very long way if they build chemistry.