Auburn mentor Hugh Freeze made it cloudless that the Tigers misplaced to a lesser crew after they fell 24-14 to Arkansas on Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
Talking Monday evening on Tiger Communicate with the Auburn Sports activities Community, Freeze stated Auburn’s untouched house loss, similar to the Sept. 7 defeat to Cal, used to be particularly irritating on account of the feature of the opposition.
“I mean no offense whatsoever to Arkansas … I love [coach] Sam Pittman, I hope he wins the rest of his games, but I’m telling you, the hard truth is if we play them nine more times, we beat them nine times,” Freeze stated Monday. “That’s what’s hard to take, and it’s hard for our fans, I’m sure, and it’s certainly hard for us.”
Freeze cited Auburn’s 5 handovers within the loss, which restricted the Tigers to 61 performs. Auburn outgained Arkansas 431-334, however the Razorbacks ran 22 extra performs and scored 10 issues off of handovers.
The second one-year Auburn mentor had a homogeneous message previous Monday at his information convention, announcing, “Certainly not lessening Arkansas, congratulations to Coach Pittman. … But certainly it was a game we felt like was winnable. And when you don’t come through and get that, it stinks.”
Auburn additionally had 5 handovers in its house loss to Cal. Freeze stated Auburn’s offensive id doesn’t want to alternate, and stated it’s “sickening” that the crew is averaging 8 yards in keeping with play games however “not scoring the points that should come with what those stats say.”
He stated Auburn would evaluation quarterbacks Payton Thorne and Hank Brown during the life sooner than deciding who begins in opposition to Oklahoma. Freeze stated Thorne, who changed Brown in the second one part in opposition to Arkansas, “looked really sharp.”
