Auburn football: The top 5 moments of the Bryan Harsin era so far

There’s been way too much negativity of late surrounding first-year Auburn football head coach Bryan Harsin after the firing of Cornelius Williams this past Sunday.

I’m trying to be a ‘vibe guy’. Let’s switch up the pace.

AU is right around what was expected heading into the season. Losing to Penn State was always on the table given the (so far met) expectations of a comeback season after a down-year in 2020.

Beating Georgia State wasn’t clean, and victory seemed impossible with the team’s starting quarterback in the game, but it’s about getting the job done.

3-1 is right where they need to be. Give Harsin and co. the weekend in Death Valley to determine whether or not things are or aren’t hunky dory.

This current LSU team is unimpressive early on, so much so to the point that some are pondering different possibilities in Coach O’s seat. If Auburn gets stomped out on the Bayou?

Different story.

But let’s focus on the good times of the Harsin era on the Plains:

#5 moment of the Bryan Harsin era of Auburn football: Smoke-six seals the deal against Georgia State

In what was one of the major cherries on top of the first three double-digit victories of the season, Smoke Monday’s pick-six in the last 30 seconds of this past Saturday’s last-minute, high-drama Georgia State comeback (more on that later, if you could imagine) made the win look good to AP voters that might have not caught the 3pm SEC Network matchup and only saw the score…without the disturbing discovery that the defense cannot contain a mid-tier Sun Belt program’s running back.

It worked, as Auburn football jumped a spot in the rankings to #22.