From the podium: Hugh Freeze recaps Auburn's collapse in Death Valley

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Hugh Freeze was in a somber mood during his postgame press conference after Auburn's beatdown at the hands of LSU. A 30-point loss on the road isn't how you want to perform after nearly upsetting the nation's No. 1 team and then getting two weeks off. "Obviously it was a difficult night for us. They beat us every way you could," Freeze said. "We had no answers defensively for them, and offensively, just not consistent enough to stay in a scoring match with them. We have to own everything that's on that film. The effort, the good and bad, and go back to work, hopefully get better. "This will test us, which football does that. It will test us. The only way to get out of this funk is to work hard. To do that, you have to have the right attitude and be able to put the past behind, but at the same time own what we're doing. I don't know if we win the game, but we could have certainly played better. That's a really, really good offense. We didn't play our best for sure." More inside.