buckeyeboy
Still fortitudinous
Tough loss for S. Carolina. If only that kid could've held onto that long pass on the last drive--it was a sure TD and a fine throw by the QB.
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OregonBuckeye
Semper Fi Buckeyes
I know hindsight is 20/20 but I think they should've gone with a screen pass on the last play since Auburn was bringing the pressure.
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DallasBuckeye
All-American
Buckeyeskickbuttocks;620637; said:I'm happy to be a fan of a program that does not consider a loss a moral victory.
amen to that brother!
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buckeyeboy
Still fortitudinous
I kept thinking a QB draw might be effective, considering the fact that the blitz was coming from around the ends. If they could've gotten decent blocking from the center and two guards, the QB probably could have taken it to the house for the tie.
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crazybuckfan40
Head Coach
Tough loss for SC.
I really thought this line seemed to high for a SEC nite game. Should of went with my gut...
I really thought this line seemed to high for a SEC nite game. Should of went with my gut...
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briegg
Heisman
Watching this game makes me that much happier that we have JT as a coach. Spurrier blew the clock management at the end of this game. Wasted too much time on 1st & 2nd down - it basically made it 4th and the ballgame vs. 4th and 1. No one manages the clock at the end of a game better that JT.
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OSUBuckeye4Life
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CleveBucks
Serenity now
Considering Auburn's defense only had to play 3 quarters, they didn't look all that impressive. You keep hearing about their "speed" but the QB was running wild on them, getting to the edge more often than not. Spurrier really blew that last play. The slant was working all day, as was the QB rolling out with the option to pass or run. Auburn would've bit on a little playaction.
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OSUBasketballJunkie
Never Forget 31-0
Dispatch
Auburn clips South Carolina
No. 2 Tigers turn back Gamecocks in closing seconds
Friday, September 29, 2006
ASSOCIATED PRESS
</IMG> MARY ANN CHASTAIN ASSOCIATED PRESS South Carolina?s Cory Boyd knifes through Auburn?s defense and drags Wil Herring on a first-quarter run that resulted in a first down.
No. 2 Auburn 24, South Carolina 17 ? Kenny Irons ran for 117 yards and two touchdowns and No. 2 Auburn knocked away a last-chance pass to keep its unbeaten season alive with a Southeastern Conference victory over the Gamecocks last night in Columbia, S.C.
Along with Irons? ground game and their rock-solid defense, the Tigers (5-0, 3-0) displayed a passing game that helped them take every snap of the third quarter.
Brandon Cox completed 9 of 13 passes for 125 passes in the third quarter to keep Auburn moving and the South Carolina offense off the field.
Neither coach could remember a game where one team so dominated a quarter of play.
"I think that?s a first for me," South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said. "I haven?t seen a game where one team had it for the entire quarter."
On the opening drive of the second half, Cox passed to Lee Guess for 12 yards on thirdand-11. Cox later connected with Tommy Trott on an 11-yarder that set up John Vaughn?s 24-yard field goal.
Then with the Gamecocks (3-2, 1-2) feeling good about holding Auburn out of the end zone, coach Tommy Tuberville stunned the Gamecocks with a perfectly executed onside kick. No South Carolina player was within 3 yards of the ball when it landed, and Jerraud Powers recovered for Auburn.
Cox hit an 18-yard pass to Taylor, an 8-yarder to Robert Dunn on fourth-and-6 and a 25-yarder to Taylor on thirdand-21.
Irons finished the drive on the first play of the fourth quarter, scoring on fourth-and-goal from the 1 to put Auburn ahead 24-10.
Irons was a running back at South Carolina for two years before transferring to Auburn after the 2003 season. After sitting out 2004, he gained 1,293 last year and has rushed for 441 yards in four games this year.
"This felt pretty good ... a good feeling," Irons said. "There are no hard feelings. It was all fun and games on the field."
South Carolina closed to 24-17 on Syvelle Newton?s 25-yard pass to Jared Cook with 8:25 to go. Then the Gamecocks got the ball back one last time, driving to the Tigers 6. However, on fourth down, Newton?s floater to Sidney Rice was batted away by Patrick Lee with 19 seconds left. Auburn has won 19 of its past 20 regular-season SEC games.
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briegg;620655; said:
I don't disagree with the conclusion, but I can't agree that Spurrier blew the clock management. In fact, it was all but perfect. After failing to have the ball for even 1 second of the 3rd Q he had his team in a position to tie the game (or win if he went for 2) with a 4th and short from the Auburn 4 or 5 with :26 seconds left. Maybe you don't like the play call... a jump ball in the EZ ... and that's fine, I don't think that was the best idea when he had a 1st D available (stopping the clock momentarily while the ball gets palced)... but clock management? I don't see how you can make that argument on account of this game.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
IronBuckI;620897; said:
Not speaking from experience with South Carolina fans, but most of the time that one guy is a fan for a superior team, other fans are going to find ways to make their teams be at a higher level, or to bring the superior team down to their level. South Carolina fans will always bring up those two bowl games, even if Ohio State is 13-0 and South Carolina is 0-12.
And I'm sure I'll do it, too. We can say that Michigan's record against Ohio State is irrelevant for hundreds of reasons. The only real record is what happened in the most recent game. Ohio State is 1-0 against Michigan in the most recent game. But when (or IF) Michigan beats Ohio State in the future (*knock*knock*) I'll be one of the people saying, "Oh yeah? Well Jim Tressel is 16-2 against Michigan!"
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si.com
'It was not a conspiracy'
Laptop containing Auburn gameplan stolen in S.C.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- A laptop containing No. 2 Auburn's offensive gameplan was stolen out of the team hotel by "a drifter," not as a conspiracy to help South Carolina out, coach Tommy Tuberville said Sunday.
The laptop was lifted from the offensive meeting room while players and coaches stood around following dinner on the eve of the Tigers' 24-17 victory Thursday night in Columbia, S.C. The thief was caught on video nabbing the expensive computer, which Tuberville valued at $15,000.
"We saw who did it, and it takes a lot of nerve to walk in there with 300-pounders standing around it and pick it up and put it in your pants and walk out the door," Tuberville said.
An unscrupulous Gamecock fan looking to give his team an edge? Nah, just a guy looking to make a few bucks, the coach said.
"The police identified him as looking like somebody that they see around the mall all the time," Tuberville said. "It had nothing to do whatsoever with South Carolina or any of that. We're getting calls about that. It didn't have anything to do with the game, but somebody out there's got a nice $15,000 computer that doesn't know how to get into it."
Rumors had circulated on the Internet about the so-called "plot". Some of that might have been fueled by the fact that a game Auburn was expected to win by a couple of touchdowns went down to the final play, when Syvelle Newton's fourth-down pass was batted down in the end zone.
The Gamecocks nearly stole the game. They didn't do it by swiping the laptop, though.
"It didn't have anything to do with the outcome of the game," Tuberville said. "It didn't have anything to do with it at all. I heard it from a lot of people insinuating that it was a conspiracy. It was not a conspiracy. Somebody needed some bucks, and I hope they got more than $100 because it's worth a lot more than that."
Tuberville said the laptop only included the South Carolina gameplan and practice footage from that week, much of it available to anyone with a VCR or TiVo. He said the laptop has been replaced.
Auburn plays Arkansas on Saturday.
'It was not a conspiracy'
Laptop containing Auburn gameplan stolen in S.C.
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- A laptop containing No. 2 Auburn's offensive gameplan was stolen out of the team hotel by "a drifter," not as a conspiracy to help South Carolina out, coach Tommy Tuberville said Sunday.
The laptop was lifted from the offensive meeting room while players and coaches stood around following dinner on the eve of the Tigers' 24-17 victory Thursday night in Columbia, S.C. The thief was caught on video nabbing the expensive computer, which Tuberville valued at $15,000.
"We saw who did it, and it takes a lot of nerve to walk in there with 300-pounders standing around it and pick it up and put it in your pants and walk out the door," Tuberville said.
An unscrupulous Gamecock fan looking to give his team an edge? Nah, just a guy looking to make a few bucks, the coach said.
"The police identified him as looking like somebody that they see around the mall all the time," Tuberville said. "It had nothing to do whatsoever with South Carolina or any of that. We're getting calls about that. It didn't have anything to do with the game, but somebody out there's got a nice $15,000 computer that doesn't know how to get into it."
Rumors had circulated on the Internet about the so-called "plot". Some of that might have been fueled by the fact that a game Auburn was expected to win by a couple of touchdowns went down to the final play, when Syvelle Newton's fourth-down pass was batted down in the end zone.
The Gamecocks nearly stole the game. They didn't do it by swiping the laptop, though.
"It didn't have anything to do with the outcome of the game," Tuberville said. "It didn't have anything to do with it at all. I heard it from a lot of people insinuating that it was a conspiracy. It was not a conspiracy. Somebody needed some bucks, and I hope they got more than $100 because it's worth a lot more than that."
Tuberville said the laptop only included the South Carolina gameplan and practice footage from that week, much of it available to anyone with a VCR or TiVo. He said the laptop has been replaced.
Auburn plays Arkansas on Saturday.
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