Auburn’s offense has been statistically-abysmal on key drives during SEC play
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Auburn is going through a season to forget in 2025, and head coach Hugh Freeze is feeling the heat as the Tigers lost another game on Saturday night to Mizzou to fall to 3-4 overall.
Freeze’s team is still winless in the SEC at 0-4 after the heartbreaking double-overtime setback against the other Tigers, which just happened to take place in front of their suffering home fans at Jordan-Hare Stadium. But the narrative on Auburn this fall gets worse when considering what might have been, because the struggling Tigers have been particularly bad in key moments that might have made a big difference in their season.
Here’s a bone-chilling synopsis for Auburn followers: Against Oklahoma, then Texas A&M and then Georgia, and in Saturday’s loss to Mizzou, the Auburn offense has had 10 drives during the 4th quarter or overtime with a chance to tie the game or even take the lead. Needless to say, things have not gone well during most of those key drives in the Tigers’ 4 SEC losses.
The first of those drives was a 14-play touchdown march in the 4th quarter against Oklahoma, which gave Freeze’s team the lead in an eventual loss.
The other 9 drives have resulted in just 24 total yards on 35 plays, as pointed out by Jacob Waters of the Opelika-Auburn News:
Auburn will try to get back on track this weekend against Arkansas.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
