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Auburn football fans did not have a good Saturday. Auburn got smacked around by Georgia, losing 31-13 in front of the incredibly loud Bulldogs fans. To add insult to injury, a miscommunication on one play caused a ton of controversy for head coach Hugh Freeze and QB Payton Thorne. Auburn attempted a fourth-and-1 from their […]

Admittedly, Week 6 of college football doesn’t boast an all-star lineup, but it’s still not one to sleep on. With the season now deep into conference play, numerous scenarios present opportunities for potential upsets. One such game is the late-night ACC matchup between No. 8 Miami traveling all the way to Berkeley to face Cal. […]

The Auburn football team hasn’t been doing very well on the gridiron in recent years, but give Hugh Freeze credit for what he is doing on the recruiting trail. The Tigers have one of the best 2025 recruiting classes in not just the SEC, but the entire country. That class got better on Wednesday as […]

Georgia is looking to rebound from their loss as they face Auburn. It is time to continue our college football odds series with an Auburn-Georgia prediction and pick. Auburn enters the game sitting at 2-3 on the year. They opened with a win over Alabama A&M before facing California. Auburn would be down 14-7 at […]

Auburn football is off to a rugged start in the 2024-25 season, and the disappointment continued in Week 5. Payton Thorne has been catching a lot of flak for his fourth-quarter interception against Oklahoma, ultimately leading to the Tigers dropping to a 2-3 record. The senior returned as Auburn’s starting quarterback after head coach Hugh […]

Cam Newton had quite the college career and he ended up winning the Heisman trophy once he played for the Auburn football team. However, a lot of people forget about Newton’s time with the Florida football team before that. Newton was behind Tim Tebow on the depth chart, so he didn’t play often, and he […]

On Saturday afternoon, the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry will be renewed for the 129th time as the Auburn Tigers make the short trip to Athens to take on the Georgia Bulldogs. The oddsmakers and analysts will agree that the 5th-ranked Bulldogs are the overwhelming favorite to hand Auburn their fourth loss of the season, but […]

Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze wants his team to retain their composure after losing a close game to Oklahoma on Saturday. Freeze is sending a message to his quarterback, Payton Thorne, after the play caller made a key error and threw an interception to the Sooners. Oklahoma went on to defeat Auburn, 27-21, and that […]

Brent Venables hasn’t necessarily had the smoothest start to his tenure as the head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners. Venables went 6-7 in his first year in Norman, coaching the Sooners to their first losing season since 1998. Last year, he got Oklahoma back on track, winning 10 games which included an upset victory over Texas […]

Auburn football head coach Hugh Freeze, who’s come under fire from former players like Bo Wallace recently, is giving the starting quarterback role back to Payton Thorne in Week 5 against the Oklahoma Sooners, per 247 Sports’ Matt Zenitz. Redshirt freshman QB Hank Brown had started the last two contests, a 45-19 win over New […]

Oklahoma and Auburn will look to get back on track when they square off at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Week 5. It is time to continue our college football odds series with an Oklahoma-Auburn prediction and pick. The Sooners struggled on offense in a 25-15 loss to Tennessee, with Brent Venables’ team posting just 222 yards […]

College football Week 5 is upon us, and with it comes several must-win games for many teams. One of those is the now No. 13 USC Trojans, who are looking to bounce back after their first-ever Big Ten loss to Michigan last week. As conference play ramps up, many teams find themselves in must-win situations, […]

Auburn football head coach Hugh Freeze criticized his quarterbacks a little bit last week after a rough outing against Arkansas. Payton Thorne was originally the starter for the Tigers, but he was benched after throwing four interceptions against Cal a couple weeks ago. Thorne was replaced by Hank Brown, but then Freeze went back to […]

Arkansas football is trading barbs with Auburn’s head coach, Hugh Freeze. Arkansas is making a social media post referencing Freeze’s comments that if given more opportunities, the Tigers would defeat Arkansas football consistently. Freeze made the comments after Arkansas defeated Auburn 24-14 in Week 4 of the college football season. Arkansas thinks that isn’t true, […]

The Auburn football engaged in a heated matchup with the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday. The Tigers fought hard but took a 24-14 loss. Of course, head coach Hugh Freeze wishes the result would have been different. He dropped what he described as a “hard truth” about Auburn’s matchup with Arkansas after the game. Freeze believes […]

Year 2 of Hugh Freeze on the Plains hasn’t gone much better than Year 1. In his second season as Auburn football coach, Freeze has lost his first two games against power conference opponents, including yesterday’s 24-14 Southeastern Conference (SEC) defeat against Arkansas. Additionally, Freeze’s criticism of his quarterbacks has caught the attention of one […]

Auburn football is likely getting one of their top weapons back on the outside on Saturday when they play Arkansas. Star true freshman wideout Cam Coleman, who missed last week’s game with a shoulder injury, is on track to return this weekend, according to Pete Thamel of ESPN. “Source: Star Auburn freshman wide receiver Cam […]

Arkansas will face Auburn in Eastern Alabama on Saturday. We’re at Jordan-Hare Stadium, sharing our college football odds series and making an Arkansas-Auburn prediction and pick. Arkansas defeated the UAB Blazers 37-27 last weekend. Ja’Quinden Jackson led a strong rushing attack, plowing 15 times for 147 yards and one touchdown. Additionally, quarterback Taylen Green went […]

In a big change for Auburn football, head coach Hugh Freeze has decided to start redshirt freshman Hank Brown instead of team captain Payton Thorne against New Mexico, according to Justin Hokanson of Auburn Live. Thorne posted a poor performance in Week 2 in an upset loss to the Cal Golden Bears. The senior finished […]

It is time to continue our college football odds series with a New Mexico-Auburn prediction and pick. Find out how to watch New Mexico-Auburn. This season at Auburn took a dramatic turn for the worse in Week 2. Auburn was a 13.5-point favorite at home over Cal. One year ago Auburn’s offense played a brutally […]

As we enter Week 3 of the 2024 college football season, teams are starting to reveal their true identities. Although it’s still early in the season, we’ve already witnessed some significant upsets, with one of the biggest shocks coming from the MAC Conference’s Northern Illinois defeating Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish are just one of […]

The Auburn football team fell to Cal in a shocking result in Week 2. After the loss, Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze faced some criticism from Paul Finebaum following his team’s 21-14 loss against the Cal Golden Bears on ESPN’s Always College Football with Greg McElroy show. “I think he’s made some mistakes, his demeanor […]

Auburn football quarterback Payton Thorne is ready to put the Week 2 loss behind him. The Tigers fell on the wrong end of a matchup with California 21-14, where the senior completed 14-of-27 passes for 165 yards, one touchdown, and four interceptions. After a solid Week 1 outing, it’s more likely that Thorne will rebound […]

Following a 21-14 loss to the Cal Golden Bears, Auburn football head coach Hugh Freeze has some tough decisions to make about his quarterback moving forward, via Dan Morrison of On3.  “It’s really hard to not play a young man, whether it’s Payton or whoever, that consistently is the best performer in practice over and […]

The Auburn football squad’s SEC campaign has not started quite well. Despite a win in Week 1 against Alabama A&M, they could not maintain their momentum. Coach Justin Wilcox’s defense was just mauling Payton Thorne all throughout the four quarters of their matchup. This prompted Fernando Mendoza and the rest of the California football offense […]

Auburn football has a lot going for them so far in the 2024-25 season, and it appears that they now have Nick Saban in their corner. Riding the wave of a 1-0 record, senior quarterback Payton Thorne is embracing the leadership role he finds himself in, and he has the offense looking sharp. The Tigers […]

The California football program got off to a 1-0 start in their first season in the ACC last week, securing a 31-13 win over FCS walkover UC Davis in their home opener last week, but the win came with a price. Star running back Jaydn Ott left the game last Saturday in the 3rd quarter […]

Auburn looks to build off a dominant Week 1 win when it hosts ACC foe California at Jordan-Hare Stadium. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a California-Auburn prediction and pick. The Tigers did not hold back in a 73-3 win against Alabama A&M, with Hugh Freeze’s squad putting up a […]

It is time to continue our college football odds series with an Alabama A&M-Auburn prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Alabama A&M-Auburn. This season at Auburn will be a verdict on quarterback Payton Thorne. It might not be a total verdict on coach Hugh Freeze, but it will reflect on Freeze for better […]

Second-year Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze made a name for himself after he rattled off a couple of wins over former Alabama coach Nick Saban when he was at Ole Miss. With Saban now retired, Freeze and Auburn are set up to become one of the elite teams in the SEC once again. It usually […]

TJ Finley is getting ready to play his fifth season of college football, and he will be with his fourth team this year. Finley is now with the Western Kentucky football team, but he started his career at LSU in 2020. He then played for Auburn football for two seasons, and then he was with […]

There has been a lot of good recruiting news for the Michigan football team this summer, but the Wolverines did take an unfortunate hit on Friday. Four-star defensive lineman Nate Marshall had been committed to Michigan since April, but he flipped to Auburn football on Friday. Marshall took an official visit to the Tigers back […]

As people are putting the final touches on their predictions for the upcoming Auburn football season, one has to wonder how different this iteration of the team is compared to last season. Tigers quarterback Hank Brown, who was just announced as the backup to starter Payton Thorne, spoke to 247 Sports and was candid in […]

Auburn football head coach Hugh Freeze drew some criticism for claiming that he should have four wins, not two, against former Alabama football coach Nick Saban. Freeze had said recently that he, between his stints at Auburn and Ole Miss, should have a 4-2 record against Saban, who retired in January. Offered to expand on […]

After losing the Music City Bow against Maryland in 2023, Auburn football hopes to make a big statement in the SEC. They already got Hugh Freeze’s system tested out and are likely going to make a big leap in terms of improvement. A lot of the college football fans and Tigers faithful believe this would […]

This is a landmark year for USC football, as the former Pac-12 program prepares for its first season in the Big Ten Conference. But make no mistake, this is also a critically important campaign for Lincoln Riley. The Trojans head coach is under enormous pressure to definitively bring this team back to elite status. While […]

Whenever a new college football year approaches, fans and people within the sport usually have high expectations for what the Auburn football team can accomplish this upcoming season. Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze spoke to the media after the first practice of fall camp for the team and touched on what the two keys are […]

As a freshman at Carrollton High School, quarterback Julian Lewis had one of the greatest seasons in Georgia high school football history, leading Carrollton to the state championship game in 2022 while throwing for over 4,000 yards and 48 touchdowns. A year later, after losing in the state title game the year prior despite throwing […]

With a new-look SEC coming in the 2024 season from conference expansion, Auburn football head coach Hugh Freeze is looking to make a big jump in his second season on the Plains. Last season, the Tigers finished 6-7, losing their last three games, which included defeats to New Mexico State, Alabama in the Iron Bowl, […]