No. 18 Auburn’s Jeremy Johnson can relate to the disappointment.
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A victory Saturday would help MSU take back-to-back decisions in the series for the first time since winning four in a row from 1997-2000.
“It’s all cool”, Prescott said. “You have to do what you feel is best for your team and your offense each week”. Sure, Auburn lost two-year starter Nick Marshall. Diaz would like to see what he is facing with White leading the way, and he has virtually nothing to work with.
Now, it’s always possible this kid could come in and just light up the Bulldogs. “We missed some tackles and they made some plays”.
Odd things just seem to happen there.
As with numerous Tiger’s games over the Les Miles era, if we can simply get time to develop our offense and wear down our opponents front lines then THE HAT will ride victorious again. And there would be a lot of hands raised from the group at SEC media days that picked the Tigers to win the conference. There is plenty of talent on this team, and White is an unknown.
The Demons’ top tacklers are senior safety Chase Collins (19) and senior defensive end Leroy Armstrong (16), both Natchitoches Central products. “We’re still trying to figure all of that out at the moment”. “We didn’t tackle very well but some of that was just SEC-caliber players making plays”. “Now I think I am getting to the last step of my progression, checking the ball down and knowing when the defense is set up in a certain coverage for me to run the ball or when they don’t have a spot to open up those lanes for me”. After all, Mississippi State ran for 5.07 yards per carry and four touchdowns against this Auburn defense previous year .
The No. 8/9-ranked Tigers turned in one of their most thorough performance of the last few seasons on Saturday, dismantling Auburn 45-21. Only LSU and South Carolina average less than Auburn’s 157.7 yards per game.
When Louisville inserted their mobile quarterback Lamar Jackson, Auburn couldn’t figure out what to do to slow him down. LSU’s Brandon Harris had similar success running 8 times for 66 yards.
Prescott, meanwhile, completed 10 of 11 passes for 227 yards and two touchdowns in two quarters. “You can tell that we’ve been working and we’ve grown up a lot as a group”. But they still need to work on catching balls thrown their way while covering people. While many Iron Bowls are instant classics, half of them have been down-right blow outs. So why not turn to Bo Wallace. A loss would all but be a deathblow for Mississippi State with a road trip to Texas A&M up next week, but the schedule isn’t all that bad for the immediate future with three straight home games against Troy, Louisiana Tech and Kentucky.
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Now to seriously answer your second question, White is an unknown.
