Auburn football Mandatory Credit: Mike Watters-USA TODAY Sports
Former Auburn football head coach Gus Malzahn is hearing it on social media after his UCF Knights’ first drive of the 2021 season ended in a pick-six.
Of course, the toxicity of Twitter often fails to nail the nuance of real-time events as they are happening. We’ve seen the news cycle descend to pitiful depths this past year.
Folks likely saw the headline, “UCF’s first drive of the Gus Malzahn era ends in Boise State pick-six” and ran with it.
Here’s the actual context of the play, where Boise State’s Tyric LeBauf took a Dillon Gabriel red zone pass and turned it into six points on the other end:
Dillon Gabriel had UCF’s offense cooking early in the first half and then throws an interception in the end zone that got returned 100 yards the other way for a Boise State touchdown.