Barrett Trotter, standing in the pocket and waiting for a slow-developing play to run its course, knew he was about to get creamed.
The Auburn quarterback, who had been wearing South Carolina defensive end Melvin Ingram like a jacket all day, heard the footsteps coming behind him and had a pretty good idea whose they were.
With the clock running out and his team down by 4, though, Trotter knew he just had to grit his teeth and bear it.
“When you look at what you’ve got to give up for what it’s worth, it’s not even close at all,” Trotter said. “I’ll take that every time if I have to.”
Tackle A.J. Greene had to break the news to Trotter, who was lying sprawled on the Williams-Brice Stadium turf: Philip Lutzenkirchen had just caught his pass for a 9-yard, go-ahead score with 1:38 to go, the eventual winning touchdown in the Tigers’ 16-13 win over then-No. 10 South Carolina.
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LaDarius Owens and the young Tiger D showed they can play in the SEC.
T’Sharvan Bell listened last week as a variety of sources came up with a variety of reasons for why Auburn would lose to South Carolina.
Marcus Lattimore was going to gouge the Tigers’ porous run defense. Alshon Jeffery was going to catch 35 passes for 750 yards.
The road atmosphere at Williams-Brice Stadium was going to eat the young Tigers alive, just as it did at Clemson’s Memorial Stadium two weeks prior.
Bell heard all that. He just chose not to believe it.
“All week you hear about how bad we are, how South Carolina is going to do this and how they’re going to do that,” Bell said. “Guys just took it to heart.”
That manifested itself in the lowest-scoring output for an SEC team against a Ted Roof Auburn defense (13 points) and the third-lowest yardage output (289 yards).
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Auburn's leading receiver Emory Blake, could miss this weeks Arkansas game after getting hurt at S. Carolina
No. 15 Auburn could be without two of its leading receivers when it faces No. 10 Arkansas this week.
Head coach Gene Chizik said redshirt freshman Trovon Reed will miss his second straight game with a shoulder injury and junior Emory Blake is “day-by-day” after injuring his right ankle in the third quarter against South Carolina on Saturday.
Chizik didn’t have a definite timetable for the return of Reed, who hurt his shoulder on a punt return in the fourth quarter of the Florida Atlantic game.
Reed caught 13 passes for 91 yards in the season’s first four games, also returning eight punts for 42 yards.
Blake injured his right foot on a 2nd-and-13 pass play at the end of the third quarter Saturday, in which he was hit by a Gamecock defensive back and had his ankle rolled up underneath a defender.
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The #20 Auburn Soccer team was stunned by MSU
STARKVILLE, Miss. — The No. 20 Auburn soccer team saw its 10-match unbeaten streak end in the most unlikely of places on Sunday afternoon as it was shutout, 2-0, at Mississippi State.
The loss, Auburn’s first in the series with Mississippi State since 2001 and only its fourth overall, drops Auburn’s record to 9-2-1, 3-1-0 SEC while Mississippi State improved to 4-5-3, 1-2-1 SEC.
Auburn outshot Mississippi State, 24-11, and forced Mississippi State goalkeeper Skylar Rosson into making eight saves. Auburn goalkeeper Amy Howard saw just four shots go on frame, but she was only able to stop two of them.
Auburn’s four-match road trip continues next weekend when it heads to No. 9 Florida on Friday and South Carolina on Sunday.
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