Mississippi State and Auburn try to avoid 0-2 SEC start

Auburn couldn’t have imagined Johnson committing seven turnovers in three games, playing so indecisive and falling so far so quickly.

Johnson has struggled greatly throwing the ball, completing 59 percent of his passes and throwing six interceptions through three games this season. “We feel like that’s what’s best for the offense right now”. “We’ve got a lot of confidence in him right now”. We are expecting him to.

On White’s bio on the Auburn website, Lashlee called the quarterback “the most accurate passer” he’s seen.

Malzahn refused to give an exact timetable for Lawson’s return, but he did say he’s “hopeful” Lawson can return at some point this season. We have confidence in him.

White (6-foot-2, 200 pounds) played at University Nova South in Boca Raton, Fla. All 12 games last season were at night.

In his senior year in high school, White passed for 2,679 yards and 30 touchdowns. “And he’ll be ready if he’s called upon”.

“Any time you change quarterbacks, it’s not an easy decision”, Malzahn said. He’ll support Sean. He’ll get reps still in practice.

“(Johnson) can flat out throw it”, Malzahn said in July.

Several media sources close to the Auburn program that we reached out to were admittedly surprised by the news, but they did assure us that it would not change their Heisman vote for Jeremy Johnson that they cast in early June. “You have to do what you feel is best for your team and your offense each week”. I’m looking forward to seeing Sean. If White plays bad, now Malzahn will have two quarterbacks lacking confidence. Ranked sixth in the AP preseason poll, the Tigers needed overtime to beat Jacksonville State and got served ice cold in a 45-21 loss at LSU last week. LSU drove for 486 total yards of offense to Auburn’s 260.

The 2015 Auburn football sits at 2-1 overall and 0-1 in conference play after a blowout loss in Baton Rouge, but feels it can still capture some of the magic from two seasons ago. He was the MVP of the 2014 Under Armour All-American game but White was supposed to be the future at Auburn.

“Sean’s our starter for this game”. “I haven’t seen the other guy play”. “That’s the way we’re doing it, and we’re thinking about nothing but Mississippi State“, Malzahn said.

LSU will enter Friday’s match on a three-game win streak.

“Looking back to 2013, there are some similarities”.

“The two opening weekends on the road in the SEC is tough so we’re really happy to be at home and hoping for a big crowd on Friday night and we’re excited to play our SEC home opener”, Hoppa said.

Malzahn said receivers Jason Smith and Jonathan Wallace, both former quarterbacks, will get some practice time at their old position. “I’m not ready to say exactly when that is”.