Auburn opens as slight home underdog to Texas A&M
According to FanDuel, Texas A&M has opened as a 2.5 point favorite for its trip to Jordan-Hare Stadium against Auburn on Saturday. Texas A&M (8-2) is coming off of an easy 38-3 win against New Mexico State while Auburn (4-6) earned its fourth win of the season against Louisiana Monroe 48-14.
Auburn is looking to keep its bowl game hopes alive while Texas A&M is still vying for a potential playoff spot. The Aggies currently sit at No. 15 in the latest College Football Playoffs rankings. The Tigers will have the chance to play spoiler. Texas A&M has won the last three meetings with Auburn.
Freeze on win against ULM
Coleman recorded single-game highs in receptions (8), yards (100) and touchdowns (3).
“I thought we started fast. I kind of went back in the open week and just said we’re going to go back to being, you know, our tempo-driven stuff, particularly for this game and that definitely gives our receivers more touches and more opportunities and as long as you stay on schedule you can do that. And we were able to do that today and thought we were pretty effective when we were on schedule. But to get those receivers early touches certainly starts building excitement I think in the stadium and on the sideline.”
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Auburn finished 12-17 on third down, while holding ULM to 2-12 on third down. Dominant on both sides of the ball.
“Our third down plan was good today. We executed it pretty well and you know, we had two weeks to work on that and it was simple stuff that our kids understood. We were able to execute and I think there’s a valuable lesson in that. Maybe less is more and let’s do what we can do and give our kids a chance to execute in critical downs and critical moments. We had a pretty good idea of what we were going to get on third down and yardage from this unit. And in my mind, they were held under 200 yards. I think our defense, besides the one drive in the third quarter, was really, really solid.”
Auburn scored on eight of 11 drives. The only drives they didn’t score on was a drive right before halftime, the first drive coming out of halftime, and then the drive Walker White started and fumbled four plays in.
“I thought we executed at a high level other than two drives, and the one started in the third quarter, it wasn’t as much the kids as it, was, we had two things we wanted to try in the run game and both were a disaster. We should have stuck with what was working in the first half to get us on track and just get back into our tempo stuff. I thought we made a few decisions at the quarterback position and look, Payton played well today. I do think on that one drive (right before halftime), we didn’t get points in the first half and he had two plays where I think if he goes through his progression, we stay on track and we’re able to create more explosive plays and points.”
