No. 21 Auburn’s having a great deal of trouble with Tennessee. Already trailing late in the third quarter, things got worse on this extremely stupid Volunteers touchdown:
The 4 stages of this extremely stupid Tennessee TD against Auburn
Auburn had so many chances for this play to not end like this.
That all leads to this funny play log entry:
Jarrett Stidham sacked for loss of 30 yards to the AU0 (K. Phillips;A. Johnson Jr.), fumble by Jarrett Stidham recovered by UT A. Taylor at AU0, TOUCHDOWN, clock 02:34. [02:34]
The Vols have turned in by far their most impressive performance of Jeremy Pruitt’s young tenure. On this play, the pass rush got to Jarrett Stidham, who fumbled and set off one of the sillier fumble sequences you will ever see in all your years of watching football.
We can break this entire thing down into naturally occurring stages.
The first moment the play should’ve ended was here, when Stidham could’ve avoided fumbling altogether and just taken a sack:
The next was here, when someone could’ve just fallen on the pigskin:
And the next was here, when the same thing could’ve happened:
Nonetheless, nobody fell on the ball. Alontae Taylor scooped it finally for the Vols, who scored one of the dumbest yet most uplifting touchdowns of the year so far:
That could’ve gone better, Tigers.
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