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00:00Auburn jumps out to a 10-0 lead coach right before half.
00:04It looked like Jackson Arnold was in the end zone.
00:07A fumble occurred.
00:08Georgia recovers and steals it for points.
00:12I know Hugh Freeze, I know the athletic director were up in arms.
00:16It was a terrible call, but tell me what your thoughts were
00:19about that performance on Saturday night.
00:21Well, you know, I've never seen a game completely change 100% after one play.
00:27I mean, Auburn had a week off, and they had a masterful job
00:31of preparing their running and passing game, mixing it up.
00:35They couldn't be stopped.
00:36They were up 10-0.
00:38They were about, and I think Georgia had nothing going.
00:40They had nothing.
00:41And Auburn was about to score to go up 17-0 with less than two minutes left.
00:47Quarterback, quarterback sneak.
00:49I looked at every replay.
00:50One, I thought it was over.
00:52And two, there's no way that official could have seen the ball come out
00:56before he went across.
00:57But he made the one call that was a fumble.
01:02And again, I don't know how he made that call, be honest with you,
01:05because the guy should have had a touchdown if he picked up the fumble
01:08and ran with it.
01:09But the point was, at that moment, with a minute and 30 seconds left in the half,
01:14it was 100% Georgia.
01:16Auburn could not do a thing after that point.
01:18Georgia got their act together, drove down, got a field goal,
01:21then got 10-10.
01:23Then they moved ahead.
01:25Auburn could do nothing.
01:26I've never seen a stadium.
01:28The kids, the players, the fans become deflated over one play.
01:33It was almost like, oh, no, here we go again.
01:35That's what happens when you lose.
01:37Something bad happens and everything gets deflated.
01:40But unbelievable game.
01:43Terrible officiating.
01:45But Auburn's got to rise to the occasion.
01:48When you have those things happen, when you're a winning program,
01:51you find a way to overcoming it.
01:53And Georgia found a way to overcome their terrible start.
01:57Just felt like Georgia was, you know, better prepared for the moment.
02:02Like, you know, like Kirby's been in this situation multiple times with Alabama.
02:07I know that he won the national championship, but he was in these tight games back and forth
02:13where if you watch Kirby Smart, you know, on top of winning two national championships,
02:17he makes halftime adjustments.
02:18You can go back to the start of his tenure in Georgia where he went toe-to-toe with Lincoln Riley
02:23in the Rose Bowl and trailed by double digits how that team came back.
02:27He's had multiple times in big matchups where he makes the necessary adjustments
02:32to allow his team an opportunity to pull the game out.
02:36We don't see the same for Hugh Freeze.
02:38I mean, it's unfortunate, but when you see Auburn and you think about the optimism,
02:42they get that week one performance where Jackson Arnold on the ground lights up
02:47Baylor's defense, not a difficult place to play.
02:49They start 3-0, and now you blink and they don't have a conference win,
02:54and they've lost three straight games in the conference.
02:56Close games to good competition, A&M, Georgia, and obviously Oklahoma,
03:02but they're not winning, and that really puts a lot of pressure now on this program.
03:08And I think that's what I was the point I was trying to make.
03:10Their confidence is fragile.
03:13They're a very fragile football team.
03:15When you lose, and their defense has played well enough this year to have them undefeated.
03:20They've lost to number five, number six, and I think number nine now,
03:23and they've lost by, well, one score, just 10 points this game, and they're fragile.
03:30They don't have confidence.
03:32It's not that they can't make adjustments.
03:34They don't believe they're going to win, and that's the saddest, most difficult thing
03:38as a football coach to overcome is when those kids deep down inside,
03:43they're waiting for something bad to happen.
03:45Instead of Georgia that has had success after success after success,
03:50they think they're going to find a way to win, and because of that, they do.
03:54Yeah, and I'll just say this about their defense, to your point.
03:58One of the best rush defenses in the conference, all at FBS, holding opposing offenses,
04:03to only 86 rushing yards per game, two and a half yards per carry,
04:08and that was a Georgia offense, entered that matchup,
04:10rushing right in the area of about 190 yards per game.
04:14They held the Bulldogs to only 79 yards on the ground and two and a half yards per carry.
04:20That was a dominant effort.
04:21Hopefully, it can continue on the defensive side for the Auburn Tigers' second half of the regular season.
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