Auburn fired head football coach Hugh Freeze on Sunday after a 10-3 loss to Kentucky, bringing a relatively quick end to what was a controversial hire less than three years ago.
When Auburn hired Freeze in early 2023, the school received pushback based on the NCAA violations and personal issues that ended Freeze’s Ole Miss tenure in 2016, as well as incidents with Freeze’s actions on social media at Liberty. But Auburn hoped it was getting the Freeze who turned Ole Miss and then Liberty into winning programs.
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