Auburn football is more lucky than good in win vs. Ole Miss

Auburn football continues to have luck on its side by beating Ole Miss football on Saturday.

Auburn football gets another lucky win in SEC play, this time over Ole Miss football in Oxford.

Gus Malzahn’s Auburn Tigers improve to 3-2 on the season by defeating Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss Rebels with a late fourth-quarter touchdown. Down 28-27 because of a failed two-point attempt earlier, Auburn needed some more luck to beat Ole Miss on its final possession. A 42-yard busted coverage touchdown strike to Seth Williams was Bo Nix‘s only touchdown pass of the ball game.

Wins are wins, but they have all been of the lucky variety for Auburn this year.

Williams’ trip to pay dirt, followed by a successful two-point conversion gave the Tigers a 35-28 lead with a minute and change left in the SEC contest. Rebels quarterback Matt Corral had his team within striking distance of tying it up at the end of regulation. A Kenny Yeboah drop followed by a moronic interception by Corral sealed the Rebels’ fate, as they plummet to 1-4 on the season.

Thus far, Auburn’s three wins are over the Kentucky Wildcats, the Arkansas Razorbacks and now Ole Miss. The Tigers were dismantled by the Georgia Bulldogs and looked lackluster at best vs. the South Carolina Gamecocks in their two defeats. While the Kentucky and Ole Miss wins are legit, everybody and their brother knows the SEC officials headed the Tigers a home win over the Hogs.

As this juncture, Auburn is giving off the vibe of being the third-best team in the SEC West behind the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Texas A&M Aggies in that order. Though Arkansas has largely played better than them, having the head-to-head tiebreaker over Sam Pittman’s Razorbacks is why Auburn can say for at least one week it’s better than four of its division rivals.

Though you absolutely should take wins any way you can get them, it is effortless to punch holes in Auburn’s underwhelming 2020 resume up to this point. While they are all conference games, the same logic applies to all 13 other SEC member institutions. The margin for error in these high-stakes games aren’t much, but Auburn has three wins by little more than the skin on their teeth.

Auburn is proving that being lucky is more important than the Tigers actually being good this year.

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