We win the toss and choose to kickoff, which means we will kickoff to open the 2nd half as well. The kick goes out of bounds, AU first and ten at their 35. AU throws three incompletions, each 5 yards closer to actually being in bounds. Tubby insists that this proves that they are getting to know the system. Auburn botches a fake punt after the ball slips out of Duval's hand and rolls out of bounds at their own 15. Gators immediately get a delay of game - ball at the 20. Grossman audibles on the next play with hand signals to Jacobs. Jacobs doesn't know what the signal means so he asks the DBs. They foolishly tell him what the original play was and also let him know what the audible is. Realizing their mistake they grab Jacobs immediately and get a 10 yard defensive holding. 1st and goal at the 10. Gators line up in I-formation so Auburn automatically knows an off-tackle run is coming and they stuff it for a 3 yard loss. 2nd and goal from the 13. Grossman takes the snap and fakes a screen to the right, then looks to throw a WR screen back to the left which everyone in the stadium knows is coming except for the WR (who is running a fly pattern). All 11 Auburn defenders run to the spot that the ball is going to be thrown, subsequently running into each other and the ball falls incomplete. Third and goal from the 13. Tight end runs simple post route when he is supposed to be staying in to say "hi" to the blitzing linebackers on their way to seperate Grossman's head from the rest of his lifeless carcass. Defense is caught completely by surprise and he is wide open, Grossman's pass hits the facade just below the upper deck - incomplete. Fouth and goal from the 13. Field goal attempt bounces 6 times before hitting the center in the shin - official scorer calls it a block and AU defenders celebrate by doing the throat-slashing motion to the crowd. First and 10 Auburn from their 13. Auburn's fumbles the snap because their two QB's are still on the sideline trying to figure out who is supposed to be playing. Gators run fumble back for a TD but only after the guy who picks it up inexplicably attempts to lateral it to another guy even though there is nobody around to tackle him. Ball gets kicked into the endzone where someone picks it up and hands it to the ref thinking the play was over. Touchdown Gators! Extra point attempt isn't quite as successful as the previous field goal attempt and AU runs it back for 2 points. Gator players would later say "we didn't tackle him because we didn't know they could get points for that". Zook promises to get it corrected. Both teams are content with the score as it remains the best showing either has had in weeks so both offenses kneel on the ball the rest of the game and no more punts or kicks are attempted. 6 snaps are fumbled however and twice Grossman spikes the ball instead of kneeling because he was confused by the signals from the sideline. On one of the spikes he is called for illegal forward pass since he scrambled across the line of scrimmage before spiking it. Final score Gators 6 - Auburn 2. Coaches are excited about the positives they saw. Game replayed the following night on ESPN classic. Just trying to have some fun and show my cautious optimism at the same time.