Hugh Freeze entering second season as Tigers head coach
Published: Aug. 23, 2024, 6:30 a.m.Alabama’s Nick Saban jumped from seven wins to 12 and an SEC West Division championship in 2008. Georgia’s Kirby Smart improved from 8-5 in his 2016 debut to 13-2 and playing for a national title in Year 2.
We took a look back — in reverse chronological order — at each of the eight men who have preceded Freeze as Tigers head man, and here’s what we found : Gene Chizik, right, and Cam Newton led Auburn to a national championship in 2010, Chizik's second season as head coach. After a solid debut — which included a 5-0 start and a narrow loss to eventual national champion Alabama in the Iron Bowl — Chizik led the Tigers to the greatest season program history in 2010.
Pat Dye's second Auburn team went 9-3 in 1982, beating Alabama for the first time in a decade. It was a sign of things to come for the Tigers, who won or shared in four SEC championships from 1983-89. Auburn finished with a losing record in Dye’s first season, but had given Tigers fans some hope with solid performances in losses to Georgia and Alabama at year’s end.
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