What QB Jackson Arnold has learned about Iron Bowl

Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze discusses QB transfer Jackson Arnold

Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze discusses Oklahoma QB transfer Jackson Arnold on Tuesday, March 25, at the Woltosz Football Performance Center in Auburn.

AUBURN — Jackson Arnold’s biggest win of the 2024 season came against his new program’s biggest rival.

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Then quarterbacking Oklahoma’s offense, Arnold led the Sooners to a 24-3 victory over then-No. 7 Alabama in Norman. He left the program after the season and chose Auburn football.

While he’s only been on the Plains a handful of months, he’s already learned plenty about the Tigers’ relationship with the program he once upset, even if his first Iron Bowl seven months away.

“It’s a lot more than I thought,” Arnold said Wednesday. “I grew up a Georgia fan, so it was always Georgia-Auburn, Georgia-Florida. I understood that. And then I come here and they hardly even want to say the name ‘Alabama.’ They’re just constantly butting heads with that school, but I love it though.”

Arnold will have a chance to do what has become unthinkable in recent years when the programs play Nov. 29 at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Alabama was won the past five Iron Bowls, and going back to 2010, the Tigers are 4-11 against Alabama.

“I love the South’s old rivalries like that,” Arnold said. “I grew up watching them, and so I’m super excited to play in the Iron Bowl.”

Adam Cole is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at acole@gannett.com or on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, @colereporter.

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