Hugh Freeze reveals where Auburn's offense has improved the most

Offense was often hard to come by over the last three seasons of Auburn football. Still, while Hugh Freeze was brought in to make improvements on that side of the ball, he says that unit still has a long way to go to get where it should be.

Freeze commented on the Tiger’s offense during a press conference back during their spring period. He said that there were some days where the offense got dominated while there were other days where they did the dominating. With nothing to officially lean on yet, he just says more work must be done to see which side actually has the upper hand and, in turn, which one has more work to do.

“I don’t have the luxury of leaving the practice field feeling good either way,” Freeze admitted. “I thought, two Fridays ago, we stunk on offense. And I hope we’re really good on defense. And then I left practice thinking we stink on defense. But maybe we’re pretty good on offense.”

“The truth is probably somewhere in the middle,” said Freeze. “(But) we’re nowhere where we need to be on either side yet.”

Auburn has not posted a Top-50 offense over the last three campaigns. That includes finishes of 90th in 2020 (25.1 ppg.), 68th in 2021 (28.3), and 87th in 2022 (24.8). Last season’s average was their worst mark since 2008 and put them at 11th in the SEC.

Comparatively, Liberty was better on offense during that stretch under Freeze. In his four seasons with the program, the Flames finished 34th in 2019 (32.8 ppg.), 16th in 2020 (38.2), 25th in 2021 (33.6), and 71st last season (27.5).

Freeze has his hands full in getting Auburn back to what many expect them to be, regardless of which side of the ball gets going first. However, finding a way to translate his offense and put some more points on the board will go a long way in making his first year on The Plains a success.

Freeze admits second transfer window has moved slower than expected

For first-year coaches this is an important time of year, the 15-day, second transfer window when college football players are able to enter the NCAA transfer portal to seek a one-time move without having to sit out. It’s a chance to shore up your roster.

For Auburn‘s Hugh Freeze, activity this spring has been a little slower.

“It really has. We really weren’t sure what to expect and I do think it’s been quite a bit slower,” Freeze said. “I’m not sure that’s a bad thing, and of course we have the SEC agreement that we don’t go SEC to SEC this portal. So I haven’t really kept up with the number of kids that that would have been of interest for us.

“But outside of that it’s been quite a bit slower than what we probably anticipated. Feel like it picked up a little bit today, maybe, last couple days. Be curious to see what the rest of the week brings. I think it’s well documented that we’re always trying to improve our roster, so we’re constantly monitoring it.”