Auburn’s last two Saturdays have turned a promising high into a brutal free fall.
After shocking then-No. 1 Georgia two weeks ago, the Tigers have been beaten badly in back-to-back games, first by then-No.
18 LSU and then by 12th-ranked Ole Miss. The latest blow came in Oxford, where Auburn was run off the field 45-15 on Saturday afternoon.
That result left Alex Golesh’s team sitting at 4-4 overall and 2-4 in SEC play, but the record only tells part of the story. The bigger issue is how fast the bottom has dropped out.
In Week 8, Auburn was handled at home by LSU 38-17. A week later, Ole Miss added another lopsided loss, and together those defeats have put the Tigers in a place they haven’t been in half a century.
The combined margin from those two games is minus-51, the largest in a two-game losing streak for Auburn in exactly 50 years.
To find the last time the Tigers absorbed a stretch this rough, you have to go back to the 1976 season and Doug Barfield’s first Auburn team. That group finished the year by losing to Georgia 28-0 and Alabama 38-7, a combined minus-59.
So Auburn did not quite top that mark, but it came close enough to make the point loud and clear: this is a historically ugly two-game stretch.
Whether Golesh can steer the Tigers to a winning record from here is still an open question, and so is his long-term future on the Plains. What isn’t in doubt is the reality of the moment. Auburn is living through a disastrous run that arrived almost immediately after its biggest win of the season.
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