Auburn football might play the toughest 3 teams in the SEC in year 1 under new head coach Hugh Freeze.

The Tigers play LSU, Alabama and Georgia but play a tame non-conference schedule. There are also a few swing games against Arkansas and Ole Miss that could decide a lot about the Tigers’ win total in 2023.

On Wednesday, Sportscenter’s Stanford Steve joined McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning to discuss the Tigers’ outlook for the season. McElroy posed the following question: Can he get behind an Auburn win total +7.5?

Because of some inconsistency at the QB position from Payton Thorne and considerable roster turnover, Stanford Steve doesn’t think so. Check out his full comments on Auburn below:

Truly, Auburn’s record at the end of the 2023 season is among the toughest to predict in the SEC this preseason.

The Tigers, as Steve said, are on the wrong side of considerable turnover and face an SEC West gauntlet with the nation’s top team sprinkled in on the other side of things. As Steve argued, getting to 9 wins in the regular season seems to be an impossible task.