Auburn's Steven Pearl takes shot at Hugh Freeze after overtime win over HBCU team originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The 20th-ranked Auburn Tigers opened the season with a 95-90 overtime win over Bethune-Cookman in Steven Pearl’s coaching debut Monday night.

Former Oklahoma Sooners starting quarterback Jackson Arnold entered the transfer portal after a rough 2024 regular season at OU, and he quickly landed with Freeze and the Tigers. Arnold became Auburn's starter, and he played well for the first month or so of the season, but things spiraled for him after a 3-0 start.

This is an opinion cartoon. Got JD Crowe’s free weekly newsletter, Crowe Jam? Sign up for it here. (Not gonna say I told you so ...) Welp, the Hugh Freeze creepy white van with all its baggage stalled out and is squatting in an Auburn parking lot collecting a $15 million buyout from the university.