No. 13 Auburn ready to host familiar faces, talented Ole Miss team

AUBURN -- Familiar faces will be inside Neville Arena on Saturday night as No. 13 Auburn (15-2, 4-0) hosts Ole Miss (15-2, 2-2). A four-year player with the Tigers, Allen Flanigan makes his return for the first time since transferring to Ole Miss. Wes Flanigan, a long-time assistant under Bruce Pearl at Auburn, also returns for the first time since joining Chris Beard's staff. While the environment inside Neville can be raucous and intimidating at times for opponents, Pearl hopes that both Flanigan's are treated with sportsmanship in mind. "The biggest thing that I’ve said, and the only thing I’ve said, is that I hope that our students remember that those guys both graduated from Auburn and are both Auburn men, and take that into consideration," Pearl said on Friday. "I’d rather have them treated as Auburn men, and opponents, than any animosity about the transfer." More from Pearl on the visiting Rebels...