Despite the television broadcast appearing to show Gus Malzahn heavily involved in Auburn's offense during Saturday's loss at Clemson, both he and Chip Lindsey said the calls were made by the offensive coordinator.

After the game Malzahn three times denied he called any plays or wanted to do so.

On Sunday, Lindsey confirmed he had autonomy in play-calling.

"I did. Yep, sure did," Lindsey said. "I called every one of them; the good and the bad ones."

One pivotal call was peculiar not only in that it was a slow developing play-action pass on fourth-and-three, but of the dynamics between Malzahn and Lindsey before it.

Prior to Auburn running the fourth-down play from Clemson's 37-yard line in the third quarter, ESPN's broadcast showed Malzahn and Lindsey next to each other, each talking on their headsets and then each walked in different directions. Lindsey wound up walking more than 30 yards away from the line of scrimmage towards the opposite end zone.

Malzahn said he agreed with the play call that was made, which resulted in a 14-yard sack though Clemson had no safety over the top with Eli Stove appearing open to the middle of the field and Chandler Cox was also an option towards the sideline.

"Anytime (there's) a big call, I'm going to have to give the 'OK,'" Malzahn said. "You know, we felt pretty good about it at the time, but obviously it didn't work out. We needed to hold it just a little bit longer, but we didn't hold up in protection."

Auburn managed just 117 yards in the worst offensive display of Malzahn's 12-year college coaching career as well as Lindsey's five years at the collegiate level. It was also the second time in five games an offense coached by Lindsey gave up 11 sacks.

"We'll get better offensively," Malzahn said. "We'll get better offensively and we'll get this thing corrected; there's no doubt about that."