{"id":433379,"date":"2024-10-28T13:41:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=433379"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:41:21","slug":"hugh-freeze-jokingly-protests-having-to-face-diego-pavia-im-sick-of-seeing-that-quarterback","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/auburn-football\/hugh-freeze-jokingly-protests-having-to-face-diego-pavia-im-sick-of-seeing-that-quarterback\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Freeze jokingly protests having to face Diego Pavia: &#8216;I&#8217;m sick of seeing that quarterback&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Freeze finally got a win last week after 4 straight losses, so what does Auburn&#8217;s head coach get as a reward in Week 10?<\/p>\n<p>How about a visit to The Plains by old friend Diego Pavia, the pesky Vanderbilt quarterback who has helped the Commodores to a 5-3 record that includes a shocking upset of then-top-ranked Alabama earlier this month? Pavia has 1,534 yards passing with 13 touchdown passes and just 3 interceptions in 2024. He also has 537 yards rushing and 4 TDs on the ground, so he can hurt defenses with his legs, too.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t remind Freeze, who still has visions of Pavia walking into Jordan-Hare Stadium last November while he played at New Mexico State, leaving with a 31-10 victory. Pavia also got the best of Freeze in 2022, leading New Mexico State to a 49-14 blowout win during Freeze&#8217;s last season at Liberty. Both of Freeze&#8217;s previous matchups against Pavia came in the month of November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sick of seeing that quarterback,&#8221; a laughing Freeze said of Pavia on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I&#39;m sick of seeing that quarterback,&quot; a laughing Hugh Freeze said of Diego Pavia, a quarterback who beat him twice at New Mexico State.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Casagrande (@ByCasagrande) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByCasagrande\/status\/1850933437651181747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Freeze hopes the 3rd November in a row of facing Pavia will be the charm, as the 3-5 Tigers look to claw their way back toward bowl eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s FPI matchup predictor thinks Freeze has a good shot to finally beat Pavia, giving Auburn a 63.3% chance to beat Vanderbilt in the 12:45 p.m. ET kickoff on SEC Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Freeze poked a little fun at the prospect of having to defend Diego Pavia yet again on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269106,"featured_media":430384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-433379","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-auburn-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/433379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}