Deshaun Davis didn’t want to give an honest answer, but Auburn’s senior linebacker couldn’t help but somewhat speak his mind after Georgia attempted a fake field goal up 17 late Saturday night.

Needless to say, the trick play — which was unsuccessful as Rodrigo Blankenship’s pass intended for Isaac Nauta in the end zone fell incomplete — did not sit well with Davis and his Auburn teammates following their 27-10 loss to Georgia.

“That’s what they do,” Davis said. “I’m not going to give an honest statement, so — Kirby (Smart) got some words, so.”

The play in question happened with a about 3:20 remaining on the game clock at Sanford Stadium. No. 5 Georgia led No. 24 Auburn, 27-10, rattling off 21 unanswered points to take control of the 123rd installment of the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry.

Facing fourth-and-goal from the Auburn 14, Georgia lined up for a field goal, snapped the ball and ran the fake. The ball went straight to Blankenship, who had never attempted a pass in his Georgia career, who tried to heave it to Nauta, the Bulldogs’ tight end, who slipped off into the end zone.

The pass fell harmlessly to the ground, but it still irked Auburn’s sideline. Despite saying he didn’t want to be forthcoming with his feelings on the play, Davis — the unquestioned leader of Auburn’s locker room and the most media-friendly player on the team — expounded on his reaction to the Bulldogs’ attempt to run up the score in what was the senior linebacker’s final game in the rivalry.

“I mean, sometimes karma handles thing than you can,” Davis said. “I mean, that’s how they want to be remembered, that’s what they want to be known for, then—it was, in the words of (Gus) Malzahn, a bullcrap call. We shouldn’t be in that situation. I’ll just say that. I’ll revert back to the positives and revert back to us. If we’re not down 17 points, then maybe we don’t see that play. But y’all know the answer to that.”

When asked after the game why he called the fake field goal, Georgia coach Kirby Smart said, “why not?" according to The Athletic.

“Seventeen plus three is what? Twenty," Smart said. "Twenty is what? A three-score game and you lose. So what difference does a field goal make? Does it make it any more? If you don’t get it, they’re backed up. So the thought was they’re going to take three touchdowns to beat us. We get that.... It’s all about point differential.

“It was something that was well thought out long before it happened and talked about during the drive.”

For his part, Malzahn did not have much to say about the fake after the game.

“They coach their team and I coach ours,” Malzahn said. “I don’t have any comment on that.”

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.