Hugh Freeze gives hot take on Arkansas vs. Auburn matchup following Week 4 loss
Hugh Freeze still believes Auburn is a better football team than Arkansas. Despite losing to the Razorbacks by a score of 24-14 on Saturday, the Tigers coach had an interesting opinion on his weekly radio show, Tiger Talk.
“I love Sam Pittman and I hope he wins the rest of his game,” Freeze said. “But I’m telling you that the hard truth is that if we play them nine more times, we’d beat them nine more times. That’s what’s hard to take. It’s hard for our fans I’m sure and it’s certainly hard for us.”
Auburn is off to a 2-2 start in the second season under Freeze amid a myriad of issues on offense. The Tigers have now switched quarterbacks twice, going from Hank Brown back to original starter Payton Thorne on Saturday after Brown threw three interceptions.
The showing this past weekend doesn’t exactly inspire much confidence that things will get better as the schedule gets tougher. Auburn faces top 30 defenses in each of the next three weeks against Oklahoma, Georgia and Missouri.
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Meanwhile, Arkansas is 3-1 heading into a Week 5 matchup against No. 24 Texas A&M. The Razorbacks have already matched their conference win total from all of last season with the victory against Auburn.
Auburn is currently committing the second-most turnovers in the country this season with 3.5 miscues per game. It certainly won’t win any games playing that way, and Freeze appears to be heading toward another mediocre year with an 8-9 overall record since taking over in 2023.
Hugh Freeze noted that the Tigers had 431 yards of offense in the loss, and seems to believe that fixing the turnover issue is the key to turning this around. Auburn will get another crack at that when it hosts Oklahoma at 2:30 p.m. CT on Saturday.