Washington traveled east to take on the Auburn Tigers in what should have been the first game in a home-and-home series between the two teams. Instead, it was a one-off game at “neutral site” for the best matchup of the opening weekend of the 2018 college football season.
Both teams will lament mistakes and missed opportunities, and the game had some sloppy aspects to it as matchups like this early in the season frequently do. Auburn ended up winning a very close, low-scoring game that was just waiting to be seized by either team from the beginning of the second quarter on.