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10.13.2007

GAME DAY, Auburn at Arkansas

Hey everyone. I'm here at Reynolds Razorback Stadium, home of the Arkansas football team. It's sunny. Temperatures in the high 60s, I'd say. Glad I brought a jacket.

I'm flying solo tonight. With that in mind, and the fact that this is a late game, I won't have time to blog as thickly as usual tonight. Sorry about that.

Thanks for venturing forth to peep the HOTTEST Auburn blog on the net.


--------GAME COVERAGE--------

CURRENT SCORE:
AUB -- 9
ARK -- 7
FINAL

AU -- (1st, 8:28) Wes Byrum 22 FG
AU -- (4th, 10:11) Byrum 38 FG
UA -- (4th, 1:36) Lucas Miller 13 pass from Casey Dick (Alex Tejada kick)
AU -- (4th, 0:21) Byrum 20 FG

Final thoughts as I leave for Tulsa and a 6 a.m. flight: Pretty impressive win overall. People don't hold Arkansas to 67 rushing yards. It just doesn't happen. Muschamp said the key was going to be tackling. McFadden loves breaking tackles. He didn't break many tonight. Auburn got to the ball and stayed with it tonight.

Incredible work during that final Auburn drive. The Tigers play very well in that two-minute offense. Maybe they should run that more often. Cox seems like he's most efficient in those situations. I thought Ben Tate played his best game. He was running harder than anything I've seen from No. 44 before.

Now comes a trip to LSU. That'll be interesting to say the least. See you all on Sunday afternoon.

Third quarter: Looks like LT Ryan Pugh may have broken a bone in his left leg. Doctors put that left leg in an air cast and carted him off the field. Official word is that he suffered an ankle injury.

You want to talk about a performance? Auburn's defense has yielded 30 rushing yards so far. Thirty. Muschamp said it was all about making tackles. Auburn has. Arkansas can't thrive. These fans are not happy about this. If Auburn wins, and wins like this, Houston Nutt won't make it to 2008. Brandon Cox was knocked from the game because of a helmet-to-helmet hit, but returned a few minutes later.




Second quarter: Auburn is playing very well defensively. They're switching from that nickel look to a more standard 4-3 look, trading LB Craig Stevens and CB Jonathan Wilhite. Gaps are being plugged properly for the most part. I've only seen two missed tackles so far. Offensively, Auburn isn't executing crisply. It seems like the yards are there but little mistakes are undermining the overall effect. Auburn has to capitalize on the road. Home teams will get you in the fourth quarter.


First quarter:Tray Blackmon is out there. I didn't see much from him during the first series. As Muschamp promised, Evans still is out there. Auburn is running a nickel scheme where Blackmon and Evans are basically playing left and right. Merrill Johnson was on the kickoff return team, but hasn't played on defense yet.



Pregame: DE Quentin Groves, C Jason Bosley and LB Tray Blackmon are dressed out. Bosley started. Pugh, his backup, is at his usual right-tackle spot. if you're one of the two people here in Arkansas reading this, the Auburn Network's main board went down. That means there won't be a stadium broadcast tonight. That's why you can't find the frequency. Andy Burcham said things should be fine in time for the LSU game.

7 Comments:

Blogger Justin said...

This should be your new top 10:
1. Ohio State
2. South Florida
3. Boston College
4. Oklahoma
5. South Carolina
6. LSU
7. Cal
8. Oregon
9. West Virginia
10. Kentucky

Just keep USC at #11

Put Auburn at #18

Although according to your latest poll, Auburn could be at least #17

Put Texas Tech at #25

Boston College just gets alot of help from all the losses.

10:20 PM  
Blogger asdasdasd said...

Oh man I cant take these last sec wins... but i will take it. So I guess one of our loses was to #3 USF. I think Texas A&M coach Francoine is gone. And Oh my we have to play a losing LSU.. maybe it was good AU was flat on offence so we pick it up next week... oh and gooooo Cleveland Indians.

10:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jay,

Kind of a side note here. In your 1st and 10 column you mentioned that CBS had passed on the AU/LSU game. I think ESPN gets a couple of first picks each year and chose the AU/LSU game first. I'm not positive, but I have read that elsewhere. Just an FYI.

10:34 AM  
Blogger asdasdasd said...

I would rather have ESPN carry our games... CBS fits the game in between the Commercials. And they show the game many times later on ESPNu and CLassics, etc

3:10 PM  
Blogger Jay G. Tate said...

I'll address this stuff in the Sunday blog.

3:51 PM  
Blogger Justin said...

ESPN tends to do too many things during a game.

They have Todd Blackledge go and eat at a local establishment. How many times to they break to Rece Davis on an update of a score? Then, they have the 30 at 30 update. In the Florida game, they had a phone conversation with Jim Levitt of South Florida.

I thought when Pugh went down, they could have gone ahead with Todd Blackledge's eating establishment. Instead, they have to chance it and run the risk of missing a snap.

Remember, they're televising a football game.

4:37 PM  
Blogger Justin said...

...But I do agree that CBS loves commercials. They don't miss a beat. Every timeout- a commercial.

Every score- a commercial.

College Football is over-commercialized.

They have the yellow first down line sponsored. If a stadium has a net behind the goal post, there's a sponsor on that too.

Are television compaines hurting this bad for money? Football wasn't always like this was it?

4:43 PM  

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