Hugh Freeze and Auburn have been hot the past few weeks, winning their last 3 games against Mississippi State, Vanderbilt and Arkansas.

Now the Tigers are going bowling, and the recruiting trail is heating up in Freeze’s first season at the helm.

Auburn has a winnable game this week against New Mexico State before taking on Alabama at home to close out the regular season. It’s fair to say Freeze’s first season has been a success, and with momentum the Tigers could end the regular season with 8 wins — something that seemed impossible amidst a 4-game losing skid earlier this year.

But Freeze has been a coach long enough to know that momentum alone doesn’t win you games. His team has to be locked in in its preparation to ensure it gets a win this week.

“The job and the chore is to continue that,” Freeze said in his press conference Monday. “We stub our toe this week, and it would be easy to say the momentum has shifted the other way… Momentum is an every-day thing.”

Freeze also said that when his team isn’t winning, like it was earlier this year, it was learning. Auburn has been able to get a grasp on the season from learning from those early losses.

Hugh Freeze says Auburn has momentum as a program, but momentum is an "every day thing."

"You're either winning or learning, and that's a choice."

Freeze says you can also choose losing, "but you better get to choosing or life will choose for you."

— Justin Hokanson (@_JHokanson) November 13, 2023

Andrew Peters