Hugh Freeze is out as Auburn football’s head coach, putting the Tigers on the clock for its next head coach. Freeze finishes his time on the Plains with a record of 15-19 and is buyout is set around 15.

Auburn fired coach Hugh Freeze on Sunday, a day after the Tigers lost for the 12th time in their last 15 Southeastern Conference games.

Kentucky continues to bring up the rear at the base of the SEC and is still searching for its first conference win of the year ahead of Saturday’s trip to face Auburn. The Tigers aren’t much better off by comparison, though they at least have the SEC monkey off their back after last week’s win over Arkansas stopped a slide of four straight defeats.

Auburn football’s Auburn football’s 10-3 loss to Kentucky was a hard watch for fans in attendance. The loss showed how the Tigers took several steps back from their improvements against Arkansas last week.

At a time when the money available to spend on a roster is as important as anything, Auburn has improved its investment. It helped the Tigers land Arnold and Singleton in the transfer portal, part of last offseason’s eighth-ranked portal class. The school also opened a $92 million football building in 2022.