Bryan Harsin on crazy overtime finish vs Missouri: ‘It’s been a day’

Auburn outlasted Missouri in one of the more bizarre games in recent SEC memory. Fans of both teams need no reminders. Missed field goals, fumbles through the end zones and punts all over the place in the Plains last Saturday.

Following their narrow win, Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin got to let out a big sight of relief. “It’s been a day,” he summarized in the postgame press conference before being asked to recap everything that went down in the final moments of overtime. Which he did in full detail. Take the tale from the man on the sidelines, who could barely keep his head during all the pandemonium.

Bryan Harsin breaks down wild ending vs. Missouri

“I think we applied some pressure,” Harsin said of Missouri’s missed field goal to end regulation. “I couldn’t tell you what caused the kick to maybe just go wide right, if it was the pressure that we were bringing. That’s just an accumulation of the game. As you’re out there and you have a chance to get your field goal block team, you know, sometimes that does affect the kicker. But you’re getting overtime, you want to score a touchdown. We end up kicking the field goal and you think that might be a pick right there and it ends up not being a pick and so we get another chance which was huge. That ball hitting the ground, it comes down to a game of inches and [Missouri’s] kids were out there trying to make plays too. So it went our way. We’re able to get the field goal out of it.

“At the end, you know, that’s just one of those things where I know it’s taught on our end, I know it’s taught at Missouri as well. As you put the ball out there, things can happen and then that’s what happened. The guy’s trying to make a play and the ball goes into the end zone and fumbles. We recover that and it’s the end of it. So crazy finish. Both teams fighting hard to win the football game and we were able to find a way to get it done.”

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“Obviously in that moment right there, I mean, that’s not what you want to have happen right. Those guys, if that’s a turnover that’s a that’s huge, all right. That’s game-changing in that moment. So it didn’t go their way, it went our way. And at the end of the game you see their back break and our guys are charging on the ball and then the ball comes out and you just don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t know if he crossed the line with it, I don’t know if it’s going out of the back of the end zone, I don’t know if he stepped out of bounds. You don’t know anything because it’s on their sideline. All you know is that they’re advancing the football and they’re getting closer and closer to the end zone and if they score a touchdown it’s over.

“So that’s really what it comes down to. They can’t score, they kick a field goal. We go into another overtime and and then we’re into our two-point conversions after that. But that didn’t happen. So a ball came out, our guys finished the play. They they were truly playing that play and that’s what happened on it and we’re able to win the game.”

Heck of an afternoon for Bryan Harsin