Steve Spurrier: Auburn 'seems to be jinxed'

The Auburn Tigers dropped their second game in a row on Saturday, losing to a talented Oklahoma Sooners team. With that, the Tigers are now facing a difficult road ahead.

One person who watched that game with interest was former head coach Steve Spurrier, and as he explained on Another Dooley Noted Podcast, he left that game feeling like the Tigers might be jinxed.

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“OU beats Auburn,” Steve Spurrier said. “Poor Auburn. They can’t buy one, a pick-six, yeah. The Auburn quarterback [Payton Thorne], I don’t know if he got hit [or] the ball got tipped or whatever, but they got an interception and scored. The Auburn defense played super the whole game. I mean, they deserved to be winners and they got the pick-six at the end of the game. Auburn seems to be jinxed a little bit.”

Auburn ended up losing the game to Oklahoma 27-21 on the back of a 17-point fourth quarter from the Sooners. The biggest moment in that quarter was the pick-six that Spurrier brought up. With about four minutes left in the game and the Tigers leading by five points, Payton Thorne had a pass that appeared to be tipped land in the arms of Kip Lewis, who returned it for a touchdown to take the lead.

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That was Thorne’s sixth interception on the season as turnovers have become a major issue not just for him but for the entire Auburn team. On the whole, the Tigers have 15 turnovers or three turnovers per game, which is part of why Spurrier might think they’re jinxed.

Unfortunately, for Auburn, the schedule doesn’t get easier from here. The Tigers’ next two games come against teams ranked in the Top 10 of the current AP Poll. That includes a road trip to Athens to take on the Georgia Bulldogs next week.

Paul Finebaum describes bleak outlook for Auburn, Hugh Freeze after loss to Oklahoma

Following the loss to Oklahoma, Paul Finebaum shared what he sees as a bleak outlook for Auburn and head coach Hugh Freeze.

“I hate to say that I came away on one level impressed, but I did like what I saw in many ways. But you can’t scrape away adjectives and platitudes for just one of the worst months of Auburn football I can remember. There’s no there’s no sugar coating it, there’s no getting around it, and all stems to a decision that Hugh Freeze made in the offseason that we all know about. But it has boomeranged on him and I don’t see a path for Auburn the rest of the way,” Finebaum said.

“The schedule is simply too insurmountable. I really thought in July they would be undefeated heading into the Georgia game. They have three losses now and they’re going to have to pull some stunning upsets to even have a mediocre season. I don’t think that’s possible. So when this season ends, assuming that what the predictors say is true, Hugh Freeze has some serious problems…I talked to some people on Friday night, no one was selling Hugh Freeze out. Check back in a few weeks when a few more losses start to pile up.”