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Football. Jeremy Johnson delivers the spark in Auburn's bowl win

By Charles Goldberg
AuburnTigers.com

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. u2015 He threw one pass the whole game. One pass. Whole game. But Jeremy Johnson delivered the spark Auburn needed in the Birmingham Bowl in a three-minute span that turned everything around.

His 11-yard touchdown pass to Jason Smith late in the third quarter and his 5-yard touchdown run on the first play of the fourth quarter gave Auburn all it needed to beat Memphis 31-10 in front of a record Birmingham Bowl crowd of 59,430.

It was quite the turnaround for Johnson, who didn't start because Sean White won that job in practice.