Not that we're going to sniff a NC, but the second greatest player in the history of Auburn football -- and perhaps the prettiest -- had to engineer a 19-play 86-yard drive that ended in a field goal on the last play of the game to pick up a three-point win on a Saturday night in Kentucky.
The first several drives of the first half looked like what I thought we'd see from the first game of the season. Moved the ball well, played with confidence, spread it out all over the field.
Then Malzahn went into hibernation again. I don't understand that. I remember the Tuberville days when he'd get a touchdown lead and go into the Tubershell. Won a lot of games that way, didn't really impress anybody, but had the defense to do it. We don't have the defense yet to pull the Tubershell move. I understand that he's coaching in fear right now. That's why we hand off 94 times and pass once against San Jose State. The problem with that is that we win, but we don't get any better. In the first half we looked like we could skull fuck Kentucky. But we settled for field goals in the second quarter, took a 23-10 lead instead of a 31-10 lead and then played like we were afraid to lose most of the second half.
I honestly think if we'd scored a TD on that third series to go up 21-7 the game would have changed. We'd have turned on the jets. Instead we started to doubt ourselves -- players to coaches -- and got what we got.
We were fun to watch again in the first half before we started kicking fucking field goals.
That team would have beaten Mississippi State, though.