Auburn football: Bo Nix not to blame for Bulldog beatdown

Things got ugly for Auburn football against the new #1 team in the country. The Georgia Bulldogs, who had given up less than five points per game in the first five games of the season–and were riding the high of shutting out the Hogs last week with Arkansas visiting Athens–held the Tigers to their lowest point total of the season, and the highest opposing score of the six games so far in a 34-10 loss.

Stetson Bennett shut down the doubters with a brilliant two-touchdown, 231 passing yard performance against an AU secondary that was diced up by both LSU’s Max Johnson (325 yards and a touchdown) and Penn State’s Sean Clifford (280 yards, two touchdowns) in the preceding three weeks.

The Georgia RB room ran all over Derek Mason’s defense as well, with Zamir White’s 79 yards on the ground and two touchdowns leading the way for 201 rushing yards for the group.

The four touchdowns for the Bulldogs offense was probably in and of itself too difficult to overcome considering Auburn football’s 22 points per game average against Power Five programs this season, but the struggles of the Tigers receiving core was the highlight of the offense’s woes.

Not Bo Nix.

Nix did what he could against the top-ranked defense in the country. No other team in the country gives up less than 200 yards of offense a game. He also had to scramble in the pocket repeatedly, but that’s nothing new.

Considering the mere 46 rushing yards mustered by Tank Bigsby, Jarquez Hunter, and Shaun Shivers, it had to take a herculean effort from the receiving core.

Kobe Hudson was reliable, but key drops by Demetris Robertson and John Samuel Shenker (in the end zone might I add) tanked the Tigers’ chances of putting up a fight against the clear top team in the country.

Because it sure isn’t Alabama.

Auburn football QB Bo Nix was not the problem in the UGA loss

Nix threw one interception, but that was more of an extraordinary effort from UGA’s Jakobe Dean off of the arms of Shaun Shivers than it was Nix’s fault.

Georgia is the clear cut overdog of the 2021 college football season, and Saturday was another statement win for a team that seems hellbent on ending a 41-year title drought.