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.

After the Auburn Tigers lost to the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday, a former SEC quarterback blasted his ex-head coach, Hugh Freeze. Freeze, Auburn's head coach, made the call to start freshman quarterback Hank Brown over Payton Thorne,

uburn head coach Hugh Freeze (left) and players look on from the sideline, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024, during the fourth quarter of the Arkansas Razorbacks' 24-14 win over the Tigers in the SEC opener at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala. (Hank Layton/NWA Democrat-Gazette)