{"id":433930,"date":"2024-11-02T17:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=433930"},"modified":"2024-11-02T17:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T21:53:35","slug":"auburn-clinches-historic-run-of-futility-in-sec-play-with-loss-to-vanderbilt","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/auburn-football\/auburn-clinches-historic-run-of-futility-in-sec-play-with-loss-to-vanderbilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn clinches historic run of futility in SEC play with loss to Vanderbilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn and coach Hugh Freeze have had an up-and-down season to say the least, but it may have hit its lowest point on Saturday in a 17-7 home loss to Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, the Tigers are guaranteed to have at least 5 SEC losses in 4 consecutive seasons. The last time that happened at Auburn was from 1927-1930 \u2014 nearly a century ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Auburn is guaranteed to finish with five or more SEC losses for a fourth straight season<\/p>\n<p>this is the first time that has happened since 1927-1930<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Ferguson (@JFergusonAU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFergusonAU\/status\/1852805053217980915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is the seventh season that Freeze has coached in the SEC, including his time at Ole Miss. With the loss on Saturday, Freeze has now 5 seasons with at least 5 losses in SEC play.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hugh Freeze is now 1-6 in SEC home games as the Auburn head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Freeze is now 0-3 against Diego Pavia to the tune of 97-31.<\/p>\n<p>For the 5th time in 7 years as an SEC head coach, including both years at Auburn, Freeze will not have a winning SEC record.<\/p>\n<p>Any more questions?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Scarbinsky (@KevinScarbinsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinScarbinsky\/status\/1852805143588221263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>During Freeze&#8217;s first season, Auburn showed some potential as they went 6-7 last year. In last year&#8217;s Iron Bowl, they showed they could play with Alabama. If not for a miraculous 4th and Goal from the 31 yard-line, the Tigers would have won the game. There was hope the team could take the next step in 2024. However, at 3-6, they are going to need to pull some upsets if they are going to be able to get to a bowl.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers have 3 games left on the season, with their final 2 games being against Texas A&amp;M and at Alabama. They will be off next week, before playing on November 16th against UL-Monroe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn has had a rough season, but it got even worse as the Tigers did something that hasn&#8217;t been done at the school in nearly a century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398109,"featured_media":433934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-433930","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\/433930"}],"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\/398109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}