Auburn Tigers head football head coach Hugh Freeze relives 4th-and-31, but stated that Nick Saban is 'incredible' and a 'good friend.'
Over the last 17 years, there have been countless head coaches who have looked forward to playing against Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide. But Saban's 29 total losses in nearly two decades in Tuscaloosa, Ala. meant that a very small fraction of these opposing head coaches won what is typically their "biggest game of the year."
"I mean, honestly, Nick is incredible, but I should have four wins against him," Freeze said. "We beat him twice and we had them 24-3 the third year, and I wasn't smart enough to slow it down," Freeze said. "And then last year, it easily could have gone our way. I may have not phrased that right, I want everybody , but we easily could have beat him a few more times.
“Not winning that game sucked. It stunk. It was disappointing and hard, but at the same time, I didn’t think our roster was as good as theirs," Freeze said. "It gave me even more confidence that Auburn can return to one of the top programs in the country pretty fast because we went toe-to-toe with them and should’ve won the game, truthfully. It was a mixed bag of this is awful, but man, we can play with them.
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