What a time for the LSU Tigers to get [autotag]Joe Foucha[/autotag] back.
It’s Week 5 of the 2022 season, and LSU is headed to the Plains to take on the Auburn Tigers. When it comes to Auburn playing at home, you can throw out whatever its record is. It doesn’t matter if it has one win or ten wins, Auburn always seems to find magic in its own backyard.
Auburn enters this game 3-1 with a crazy win over Missouri last week….at home. Missouri had one of the most consistent kickers in the country, so with two minutes left in the game, the Tigers chose to play to their strength and go for the field goal.
Guess what happened? He missed it.
In overtime, Missouri fumbled the game-winning touchdown run into the endzone to give Auburn the win. As I said, anything can and will happen when you play at Auburn. TJ Finley has been ruled out of the game this week, so Robby Ashford will get the start for the second week in a row.
If Auburn is going to make this a close game, they will need some help from Ashford and their running back Tank Bigsby. Foucha was asked what he thought about the two players when he met with the media.
“He’s a great quarterback,” stated Foucha. “He can sit in the pocket. He can scramble. So we’re going to have to gameplan for him. I mean, it’s a nice gameplan. We respect his game. He’s I mean, he can throw the ball, he can run it, he can pass. He can do it all. So you know, just being able to prepare for him is going to help us out Saturday.”
Additionally, Auburn running back Tank Bigsby may be the best player on the team’s offense, but Foucha thinks LSU can slow him down on Saturday.
“He’s a great running back. He runs downhill, he runs hard, he can cut back, he can do it all,” added Foucha. “So just focusing on him, it’s going to be like another game. He’s a great running back, but we’re just going to do our job, lock in on our job and that’s going to slow him down.”
Foucha may be playing his first game of the season, but he has definitely done his homework on Auburn to prepare for this game. LSU will take on Auburn this Saturday at 6 p.m. CT.
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