Did you stay up long past your bedtime Saturday night to watch fumbles, interceptions and missed field goals? Did you clutch a cup of coffee or more likely something a bit stronger with nervous white knuckles as Auburn struggled to approach 100 passing yards?

It means you got a taste of PAC-12 After Dark, a phenomenon of impossible-to-explain crazy college football games that occur so late into the night that most of the East Coast is long asleep. If you stayed up, you may be entitled to compensation.

Or at least this is what the Sickos Committee does every weekend. It’s a group of college football fans on social media who have gained notoriety by seeking out the ugliest, most insane, weird and, well, downright sicko college football games.

What Auburn fans may have experienced for the first time with their own favorite team in the program’s trip to and eventual first win in the state of California is seemingly a weekly occurrence for George Smith, the Committee’s commissioner. And if there was ever a game to get wild that Smith could have seen coming, Auburn at Cal fit the billing.

“Just seeing an SEC team travel out west is interesting and kind of unconventional,” Smith said. “When we say sickos, we mean it’s an unconventionally appealing game. We’re not calling your team sicko. We’re just like that person in the window because we want to watch this game and we have no idea what’s going to happen. And this game kind of delivered in so many different ways.”

Individually, neither Cal nor Auburn are newbies to the gaze of the Committee. Both were ranked in the Committee’s preseason poll of the 30 teams most likely to produce sicko games.

Smith regards Auburn as the SEC’s “chaos team” and Cal is a frequent participant in PAC-12 After Dark activities.

Put them on the same field, with a kickoff at 9:30 p.m. central time and Smith and the rest of his sickos were certainly paying attention.

“The after-dark West Coast game is something that the SEC fan doesn’t necessarily get to experience,” Smith said. “And then to have Auburn be that one that experiences it just took it to the next level.”

And right from the start, this was exactly what Smith looks for. Auburn has played many bonkers games over the years. This was up there with the best of them.

Auburn fumbled on the first possession of the game. The first eight drives of the game total for Auburn and Cal included two fumbles, four punts and a missed field goal. Both Auburn and Cal threw interceptions on their respective final drives of the first half.

That Cal interception came after kicker Michael Luckhurst made a 51-yard field goal, but had it taken off the board for a rarely seen holding penalty on a field goal. The Cal drone light show planned for halftime began over the field before the final play even ended.

It got even weirder after halftime.

Both teams turned the ball over on downs on their first possession of the second half including Auburn running back Jarquez Hunter running the wrong way on a third-and-short play.

Luckhurst missed two more field goals.

Auburn had its best drive of the game going 69 yards down the field for what would be the game-winning touchdown. The next time it got the ball back, with a chance to ice the game, Hunter fumbled to give Cal a chance to go back in front.

And then Cal promptly threw it to Auburn cornerback D.J. James in the endzone.

“The second half was just a masterpiece,” Smith said. “Both teams were making a lot of mistakes. Auburn could have salted the game away, but they made a lot of mistakes. They fumbled the ball away and then Cal was like, ‘No, you have it.’”

Smith described the second half like a choose-your-own-adventure book. He said even the broadcasters seemed befuddled by each new hard-to-fathom moment.

There were only two more punts (9) than turnovers (7). Four total quarterbacks played. Neither Payton Thorne nor Robby Ashford for Auburn were able to maintain any consistency.

And there was Auburn’s mascot Aubie on the sideline “flashing” Luckhurst as he kicked field goals and wearing an inflatable bear costume on the sideline.

Everything that could be weird was in fact weird.

“The box score, I mean, it breaks all logic,” Smith said.

These aren’t the types of games that should haunt fans, Smith said, especially if you are on the winning side of things as Auburn was. Instead, Smith sees crazy games like this as something to look back at in five years with a smile, to remember how bonkers it was.

Auburn fans are used to this in their own time zone. Smith said Auburn fans have been some of the more active followers of his page.

“I love Auburn fans,” Smith said. “They know, too, you have to enjoy everything about your team because once you get those moments that are so sweet like 2010 or the Kick Six or something like that, you’re along for the entire ride. That’ what we are. We ride for our team no matter what. We’re there whether they are good or bad or not. Auburn fans are some of the best at that, if not the best. They understand and they are really good at self-deprecating humor.”

With conference realignment on the horizon, PAC-12 After Dark as we know it will bid farewell after this season. The Sickos are relishing a last taste of this beautiful, silly and stupid bit.

And when Auburn’s game ended, Smith said he needed to find some way to calm down. So, he turned on Albany vs. Hawaii and Honolulu. Very sicko, indeed.

Matt Cohen covers Auburn sports for AL.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @Matt_Cohen_ or email him at [email protected]