Payton Thorne found some brief success when Auburn ran a higher-tempo offense late in the game.
Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze walks on the sideline in the first half of an NCAA college football game against LSU in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze never takes long to come to his postgame press conferences. It doesn’t give him much time to digest all of what happened on the field and certainly no time to look back at any film. But as he sat down in the aftermath of a blowout 48-18 loss to No. 22 LSU, he questioned the plan he brought into Baton Rouge.
“You’ve just got to balance it each week,” Freeze said of playing with tempo. “I don’t know that we’re built to be in a scoring match right now with LSU or Ole Miss next week, both are extremely talented and good offensively. But maybe it is. Maybe we should. We can see how we perform. That wasn’t the plan coming in and I doubt it will be going forward.”
All the way back at the beginning of August, much of the discussion around the offense was playing at a high pace in practice in order to play with that in the season and then in turn prepare the defense to face it. And then Auburn went away from that pace as the season has gone on. Its tried to establish itself as a running team, but then went away from running as it leaned heavily on the pass early against LSU and fell behind quickly.
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