Football Preview: Auburn And Alabama Hold Home Football Openers While UAB Travels To Ohio

Alabama News Center | September 6, 2019 @ 5:00 am

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

Gus Malzahn cited an axiom of football coaches, that a team improves more between Game 1 and Game 2 than any other time of the season.

“That’s our challenge to our players,” said the coach, whose Auburn squad got off the mat behind true freshman quarterback Bo Nix to earn a come-from-behind 27-21 victory over then-No. 11 Oregon.

The Tigers trailed 14-6 at halftime and 21-6 in the second half.“They never gave up. They never flinched,” Malzahn said. “There’s a lot of mistakes we made and a lot of things we’ve got to correct.”

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