re: Oregon is going to skull drag Auburn

Auburn comes out on fire and gets up by a couple touchdowns (21-7) heading into the half.

In the 3rd quarter, Oregon starts chipping away at the lead thanks to their half time adjustments and Malzahn’s insistence on running the ball 11 times in a row on first down.

With 5 minutes to go in the game, Oregon goes up 23-21. Auburn drives down to the Oregon 33 and stalls. Carlson misses a 50 yarder. Oregon scores again to make it 30-21. Finally with the game out of reach and virtually no offense the entire half by Auburn, Malzahn finally sends Gatewood in to run the power read 6 times in a row. Oregon will be in a prevent defense allowing us to pick up 70 rushing yards in this last minute bringing Auburn’s rushing total to 200 yards.

After the game, Malzahn will say something to the effect of “ hey if you look at the bright side we had some success running the ball.” And point to the 200 yards rushing we had.