On what was a day of utter chaos in the world of college football, the Auburn Tigers were a bastion of tame compliance.
Repeatedly failing to capitalize on multiple turnovers and convert in the red zone is systemic to the entire Hugh Freeze football operation, and so are the same old excuses which have invariably spilled from the
By losing 28-14 in the Iron Bowl, the Tigers faint hopes of extending the season were finally extinguished in a collective whine and a whimper, and Bama converting on 12 of their 18 third down attempts. The more cynical amongst us might venture to suggest that when Freeze immediately shifted the emphasis of the program onto recruitment, and working the portal, he's hell-bent on self-preservation.," Freeze declared on Saturday. "We have to go back and try to finish it, then hit the portal to make sure we aren't feeling this way next year."
While most would agree with that assessment, the baffling decision Freeze made to abandon the previous transfer portal to ride with a quite clearly out of his depth Payton Thorne as his starting quarterback, was stunning incompetence on the head coach's part.
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