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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This Auburn defense needs to step it up and learn how to stop the run
Ryan White has never played a game at Williams-Brice Stadium.
The Auburn sophomore cornerback has a pretty good idea what to expect when he gets there Saturday, though.
About the same thing he saw at Memorial Stadium, 130 miles up the road in Clemson two weeks ago.
“They’ve got that big, huge revenge factor,” White said. “I think everybody just wants to beat Auburn this year for what we did last year. Anywhere we go is going to be hard.
“I’m not expecting this game to be too much different.”
The Tigers got the better of the Gamecocks twice last year, first in a tight, 35-27 win at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Sept. 25 and then a 56-17 drubbing in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta.
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