College Football World Reacts to Wild Auburn-Missouri Ending

Auburn survived, likely saving Bryan Harsin’s job.

Fox Sports’s Bruce Feldman reported on Saturday that there was a belief that Auburn coach Bryan Harsin could have been fired if his team fell to Missouri on Saturday afternoon.

“If they get beat today by Missouri, I’m told there’s a really good chance they could pull the plug on Harsin as early as tomorrow,” Feldman said. “It’s felt like a real inevitability that he will get let go at some point this year.”

The reasoning made sense. Auburn got embarrassed at home against Penn State last Saturday, and losing to a mediocre Missouri team would likely signal the end of a tenure that never garnered full support of Auburn brass.

Missouri was on the doorstep on Saturday afternoon, as the Tigers offense had the ball 1st and goal inside the 10 with less than a minute to play. Missouri proceeded with three consecutive conservative play calls to milk the clock down to three seconds and set up a bonafide extra point attempt (a 26-yard field goal) to win the game and likely end the tenure of Harsin at Auburn.

Instead, Missouri kicker Harrison Mevis pushed the field goal attempt wide right, which sent the game to overtime.

Auburn started with the ball in overtime, and kicker Anders Carlson missed a 44-yard field goal. However, Missouri jumped offsides on the attempt, allowing him to try again from 39. He made that attempt, giving Auburn the 17–14 advantage.

On the ensuing possession, Missouri running back Nathaniel Peat went scampering for the end zone on what appeared to be the game-winning score, but instead, he dropped the ball before crossing the goal line, and Auburn defensive back Cayden Bridges recovered the fumble in the end zone to seal the game for Tigers.

Missouri inexplicably lost the game twice: Once at the end of regulation and once on the final play in overtime. As such, Harsin is likely to keep his job…for now. Here are some of the best reactions from the Auburn-Missouri ending on Saturday afternoon.

basically Missouri had two chances to beat Auburn by simply Not Doing The Worst Possible Thing You Could Do Right Now and both times they did the worst possible thing they could possibly do right now

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) September 24, 2022

The Auburn-Missouri game is drunk

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— PFF College (@PFF_College) September 24, 2022

MISSOURI BETTORS, LOOK AWAY 🤮https://t.co/iVU4y1dW5e

— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) September 24, 2022

Auburn-Missouri is the worst thing the SEC’s produced since 3-2. Or it’s the best thing.

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) September 24, 2022

Missouri was going in for the TD and the runner lost possession right before the goal line, the ball goes into the EZ and Auburn recovers. That's a touchback and Auburn wins, 17-14 in OT.

Dumbest game of all time.

— Justin Hokanson (@_JHokanson) September 24, 2022

The biggest loser in this Auburn-Mizzou game is Bryan Harsin, who won’t get a $15M check tonight and still has to coach Auburn next week.

— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 24, 2022

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