Another nail-biter. Another fantastic finish. Another tight deadline. Here's how tomorrow's story starts:

LEXINGTON, Ky. — After Wes Byrum's most famous field goal, the Auburn kicker broke out the Gator chomp, gleefully mimicking Florida's signature clap as he ran down the field in Gainesville as a freshman three years ago.

After making a 24-yarder to lift the No. 8 Tigers to a crazy 37-34 win against Kentucky on Saturday night, the senior had a more subdued reaction.

Byrum's first walk-off winner in three years helped Auburn (6-0, 3-0 SEC) survive its fourth nail-biter, finally putting away a scrappy Kentucky team that trailed by 17 points on two occasions.

"We are finding interesting ways to end the games, but we are 6-0 and that is all that matters," Auburn head coach Gene Chizik said. “I am so proud of our football team finding different ways to win the game at the end."

Byrum lined up for a 24-yarder, not much more than an extra point, with three seconds on the clock and drilled it dead center. Auburn players poured onto the field for a somewhat restrained celebration, considering the situation.

"I actually thought the offense was going to punch it in there and score, and it was going to be the end of it,” Byrum said. "The defensive guys came up to me and I told them I was going to knock this through for them because they had been fighting the whole game."

Let's get to the bullet points to recap the rest:

• Some more on Byrum's game-winner. It was his fifth game-winning field goal (2007 Florida, 2007 Arkansas, 2010 Northwestern in the Outback Bowl and 2010 Clemson). It also put him first in school history in field goals made with 51, one more than his predecessor John Vaughn. "It's just a really cool thing," Byrum said. "It's humbling to be up there with the names of the people that are with me."

• Byrum hit the game-winner, but it wouldn't have been possible without QB Cam Newton, who accounted for 408 yards (210 passing, 198 rushing). He had four touchdown runs, all in the first half, tying Phil Gargis' single-game quarterback record for rushing touchdowns set against Florida State in 1976.

• But when Auburn's offense bogged down in the second half, that's when Newton was most impressive. On the methodical, game-winning 19-play, 86-yard, 7-minute, 22-second drive (look at those numbers again and let them sink in), Newton put the team on his shoulders. He ran 10 times for 48 yards, helping the Tigers convert three crucial first downs (one with a pass to Darvin Adams — a clutch play deep in Auburn's own territory — and two by running to the markers). Newton last third-down conversion run, a 4-yard gain when the Tigers needed two, put the ball at the Kentucky 11. "He's a competitor," Chizik said. "When the game's on the line, he wants the ball in his hands."

• How good is Newton? He's accounted for 21 touchdowns this season (12 passing, nine rushing), which already puts him eighth on the Tigers' single-season record list. He's rushed for over 100 yards in three games. Auburn quarterbacks had done that only six times in school history entering this season.

• The Tigers have to feel very fortunate they came away with this one. They fumbled four times and didn't lose possession once. Two of those came on the final drive. Demond Washington nearly lost a handle on it faking a handoff to Terrell Zachery. Auburn recovered at its 7. Zachery later lost the handle at the end of an end around, watching as it took a fortuitous bounce out of bounds, a fraction of a second before a Kentucky player pounced on it.

• Still, that final drive was impressive. In terms of plays, it was the second longest in school history, one shy of a 2008 drive against West Virginia that ended in a field goal.

• Offensive leaders:

• Adams: Five catches for 101 yards
• Mike Dyer: 9 carries, 56 yards (1 fumble)
• Mario Fannin: 8 carries, 50 yards

• Defensively, not a great showing in the second half. Even though Derrick Locke was out with a shoulder stinger, the Wildcats had great success. QB Mike Hartline went 23-for-28 for 220 yards. thriving in a dink-and-dunk game. Auburn's secondary didn't do a great job of covering the underneath routes, which is obviously a great concern with Arkansas' Ryan Mallett coming to town next week.

• Kentucky athlete Randall Cobb was phenomenal as well, giving the Tigers fits with his mobility, just like last season. He finished with 47 rushing yards and 68 receiving yards. He accounted for four touchdowns (two rushing, one receiving and one passing on his only attempt). Auburn is probably thankful it won't have to face him again. "This guy's the best football player I've ever been around," Kentucky coach Joker Phillips said.

• Auburn gave up 336 yards, which doesn't sound like that many. But the Tigers allowed Kentucky to score points on five of its final six drives (three touchdowns, two field goals). The only saving grace was that the defense somehow came up with a third-down stop deep in its own territory midway through the fourth quarter, holding Kentucky to a game-tying field goal and giving the offense a chance to win it. "It is obviously not where we want to be defensively," Chizik said. "But at the end of the day, I think the defense stepped up and made some plays when they to."

• Key stats for Auburn's defense: 1 sack, 0 quarterback hurries. I know Kentucky likes to throw the ball quick, but that's not going to cut it. No wonder Hartline only had five incompletions.

• Defensive leaders:

• S Zac Etheridge: 11 tackles, .5 sack
• LB Daren Bates: 8 tackles, 1 FF
• CB T'Sharvan Bell: 6 tackles
• DE Antoine Carter: 4 tackles, .5 sack
  
• LB Craig Stevens: 4 tackles, .5 sack, 1 FR
  

• Auburn burned the redshirt on punter Steven Clark, who took over for Ryan Shoemaker. The Tigers' punting has been lackluster this year (11th in the SEC in net punting entering the night), but Clark's punts went for 32 and 36 yards. I can't imagine the competition there is over. Clark is the 15th true freshman to play this year, by the way.

• Kentucky might be 0-3 in the SEC, but this was a pretty good team. It'll knock off someone it shouldn't before the season is over. Too many weapons. "My hear aches those guys because I asked those guys to play and leave everything on the field, lay with heart, play with emotions," Phillips said. "And they did it."

• Last quote goes to Newton, who didn't sound totally satisfied with how the team played: "The defense leans on the offense and offense leans on the defense. And we were just trying to get them a breath of fresh air, to let them get their legs back under them (at the end). Because we knew we were putting them in some hectic situations and that cannot be done, going three and out consecutively. We just can't do that, especially on the road. Or period."