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<\/center><\/p>\nRedshirt freshman Sammie Coates propels his 6-2 frame into the air for a catch that might help reshape the season.<\/p>\n
It took 10 full quarters, two-and-a-half games into the season, but Auburn finally found a moment where they could take control of a game. Sophomore quarterback Kiehl Frazier was flushed from the pocket, spun out to his left and heaved a hope to the back of the end zone.<\/p>\n
After losing the opener in Atlanta to Clemson, and losing badly in their conference opener to Mississippi State in Starkville, Auburn finally had some momentum.<\/p>\n
This being the 2012 Tigers, and their opponent being a gamey Louisiana-Monroe, it wouldn’t end there. A turnover late and solid play in the second half found Auburn and ULM going to overtime at 28-28. But a bit of natural balance returned after that. Frazier started to look like a game manager, his coordinator finally seemed to realize what he has at quarterback and what he longs for. Frazier might have finally found a third receiver in Coates. Maybe and perhaps. Or maybe he is the third receiver; Frazier caught a touchdown pass early in the game a receiver throwback. The running game showed up.<\/p>\n
Sure, there were some spotty calls coming from the booth, but the Tigers managed to find a way. <\/p>\n
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<\/center><\/p>\nAuburn won 31-28<\/a> after one overtime. It did, as I said to my wife at the beginning of the game, come down to a special teams victory. Two ULM field goal attempts were blocked. <\/p>\n Sunburns should mean more than this.<\/p>\n And now on comes LSU.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Alabama toiled in their task of heading to the sea, surrounding and drowning Arkansas 52-0<\/a>. UAB could not facilitate my eighth-ranked curse. They fell 49-6<\/a> to number eight South Carolina, the first number eight to win this year. Samford remains a perfect 3-0 after upending Gardener-Webb 44-23<\/a>.<\/p>\n Much more tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Redshirt freshman Sammie Coates propels his 6-2 frame into the air for a catch that might help reshape the season. It took 10 full quarters, two-and-a-half games into the season, but Auburn finally found a moment where they could take control of a game. Sophomore quarterback Kiehl Frazier was flushed from the pocket, spun out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,36,25,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama","category-auburn","category-football","category-links","category-photo","category-samford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573883892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883896,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883892\/revisions\/573883896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}