Auburn’s best chance at upsetting Alabama this Saturday inside Bryant-Denny Stadium would be trying to trade touchdowns with the Crimson Tide.
The more Auburn and Alabama reach the end zone, the better the chance the Crimson Tide will botch an extra point. Redshirt freshman kicker Joseph Bulovas missed two extra-point attempts during the Crimson Tide’s 50-17 triumph over The Citadel this past Saturday and also missed two in the 29-0 win at LSU.
“We’ve had some issues in that regard, no doubt,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said Monday during his weekly news conference. “I think we’ve had to improve at times in all areas – the snap, the hold and the consistency in the kick. Being a kicker is a lot like playing golf in that you have to be able to count on three or four benchmarks of things that are going to help you be consistent and minimize bad contact. We have not gotten Joe to where we’re comfortable or he’s comfortable with that.
“He’s working on it, but this is not acceptable, to be honest with you, from anyone’s standpoint.”
Alabama has missed a whopping eight extra-point tries this season, while Auburn enters this week having made 262 in a row dating back to 2013.