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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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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Auburn looking for wins and respect during the tough month of October
It’s O.V.E.R time.
That’s right: October Victories Equal Respect.
That’s the motto. That’s the saying. That’s the battle hymn being sung around the Auburn Athletic Complex as the Tigers head into the nastiest month of their football season … maybe any team’s season.
And by nasty, I mean nasty. I mean Joe Greene. I mean mean.
I mean four teams ranked in the top 20.
I mean three of those on the road.
I mean No. 10 South Carolina in Columbia on Saturday.
I mean No. 18 Arkansas in Fayetteville next week.
I mean No. 12 Florida at Jordan-Hare in two weeks.
I mean No. 1 LSU in Baton Rouge 21 days from now.
I mean … well, you know what I mean. Mean.
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Get to South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia early and you can fluster him for the rest of the game, like Vanderbilt did when it intercepted him four times last week, or Auburn did when it harried him into a hand-delivered pick-6 to T’Sharvan Bell in the SEC Championship Game last year.
Or so the story goes.
Tigers safeties coach Tommy Thigpen isn’t so sure the book on the Gamecocks’ senior quarterback is entirely accurate.
“He’s gone from one game when he’s thrown three or four interceptions, and it’s not uncommon for him the next week to throw for 400 yards,” Thigpen said. “You just don’t know which guy will show up. But the kid is a proven winner.”
The Tigers would like to turn up the heat on Garcia, who has three touchdowns against seven interceptions this year, early Saturday.
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