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Originally Posted by z06boy
Yep...Auburn's line was more than up for the task for sure. When preparing for the game Auburn spent extra time on setting up quickly to match the hurry up offense of Oregon and during the game one of the players commented to the coach that the actual game seemed slower than what they had practiced and they weren't having much trouble with it.
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It was slower than Oregon's normal game. There were several injuries that slowed things down and TV timeouts for a BCS champ game are a huge factor because there are a lot more than normal. They didn't think twice any chance they could get some commercials in. Oregon's games don't usually get shown or watched by a large fan base, so a decent defense won't have an issue keeping up if they are prepared to face it. Every time Auburn looked like they might be close to start getting tired, they got a break.
What should be scary to other teams is Auburn's D was one of the middle or bad defenses in the SEC this year. Their offense won most of their SEC games while the defense got lit up.