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Just over 1 week away from the start of the 2026-2027 season, Auburn basketball international signee Mantas Rubštavičius has withdrawn his eligibility lawsuit and will not suit up for the Tigers. GM Brian Kloman has been fired, a source confirms. oanow.com/sports/college/aub…
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Auburn DC DJ Durkin: "That's something we talked about going into the game, you gotta win your 3rd downs, you gotta get off the field and keep those drives short. And we didn't do a good job of that in a lot of those situations."
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Auburn DC DJ Durkin on how the defense moves forward: " The great part is with our guys is that they see it the same way. I think we're all on the same page of what needs to be done, it's not a not a matter of that. And now it's the time to go do it."
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Auburn OC Joel Gordon on Ole Miss defense: "They're disruptive, that's where it starts...They're fast and they present a bunch of different pictures. They play hard, and I think that's this conference. You're going to have to push people around up front."
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Auburn OC Joel Gordon on the short pass game: "When the score got a little bit lopsided, I think they knew that we were going to have to throw it a little bit more, and they just dropped a bunch of people and made it a little bit harder to keep that going."
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Auburn OC Joel Gordon: "We were just not able to hold up as long as we needed to. That happened way too much. We were able to do some good things and then gave up pressure, whatever it was, that just hurt our ability to execute on 1st down, 2nd down and stay out of 3rd-and-long."
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Auburn HC Alex Golesh on the O-line: "I think collectively there, didn't get the run game going. There were several factors, I think 1, matchup-wise, the Edges...We didn't protect well, and that's really on everybody."
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Auburn HC Alex Golesh on Tai Buster: "Tai is working his tail off. I give Tai a lot of credit. He's working through return to play...He's itching to get back out there. I thought when he got banged up, he was competing at a high level, so we're excited to get him back here soon."
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AU HC Alex Golesh: "Huge for us to be able to turn the page. Huge for us to be able to move on. And that's this league. Every week is a challenge, and it's why you come here. It's to play the best of the best, and we flip the page and play another really good team on the road."
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Auburn HC Alex Golesh: "I think it's the next step in our growth to be able to get rid of whatever happened on Saturday, wipe it clean, reset, and go."
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Auburn HC Alex Golesh recapping the LSU loss: "There's so much to clean up, so much to learn from. Ultimately, we've got to play much better offensively."
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Auburn HC Alex Golesh leads off press conference by crediting the fans and the "incredible crowd." "Certainly created a homefield advantage in the first half that we will, as we build, take advantage of. We certainly didn't."
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🏈 The Auburn Tigers fell to the LSU Tigers 38-17 at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday. Opelika-Auburn News subscribers can see more in our gallery by following the link below. oanow.com/sports/college/foo…
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Auburn HC Alex Golesh: "We did not play anywhere near winning football today in any possible way."
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Auburn HC Alex Golesh: "That was a really, really bad performance on both sides. There's no silver lining. There's no anything. That was bad in every imaginable way."
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Auburn HC Alex Golesh: "We're not efficient offensively early. We're not efficient offensively as we went. And then in the second half, I thought from an adjustment standpoint, it didn't look like anything that would resemble good offensive football."
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Alex Golesh: "We didn't find enough creative ways to be able to generate a run game."
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Auburn HC Alex Golesh on issues in the running game, credits LSU defense: "Just we weren't good enough, and we didn't find enough creative ways to be able to generate run game." Auburn had 67 yards rushing.
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Auburn had 8 drives against LSU not end in points. Across those non-scoring drives, the Tigers only recorded 52 yards on 31 plays and went 3-and-out four times. Seven of those drives featured four plays or less.
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FINAL | LSU 38, Auburn 17 Auburn surrenders over 550 yards of offense against LSU and gets blown out at home. Sam Leavitt threw for a career-high 387 yards, and on offense, Auburn had very little success. Instant takeaways: oanow.com/sports/college/aub…
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