About one week removed from making some flack-catching comments about Auburn football’s expectations for the coming season, Hugh Freeze clarified Tuesday his stance on what would make the Tigers’ 2025 a success.
He actually boiled it down to one word: “Win.”
“I mean, it’s Auburn,” Freeze said at the SEC’s spring meetings. “It’s one of the best jobs in the country. Our roster looks better, and there’s a lot of games that you point to last year that could have gone the other way, in our favor. That’s a reasonable expectation that none of us should run from, is for some of those (to) start going our way.”
The comments Freeze previously made, in which he said Auburn had to make a bowl game this fall after two middling seasons, weren’t ones he made again.
“I don’t get into that,” Freeze said when asked to benchmark the Tigers’ win total. “You never know, injuries and the way the ball bounces and all of that. But there should be improvement made of us being able to be better in those critical situations that cost us some games last year.
“Heck, this league’s hard, as you know. That’s why you don’t put a benchmark on yourself. You have no idea what’s going to go on at every one of these programs, and even the health of your own team and stuff. So, I don’t put benchmarks on it, but we should be in every game.”
While Freeze has mustered a roster turnaround, with back-to-back top-10 recruiting classes, the on-field results haven’t translated. After a six-win season and Music City Bowl appearance in 2023, the Tigers regressed last fall, winning just five games.
In all, Freeze’s record at Auburn is 11-13. He’s tallied five wins against the SEC, with a 5-11 league record.
Adam Cole is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery…
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