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Auburn Coach Hugh Freeze Smack Talks Arkansas And Sam Pitttman Days After Losing To Them

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The Hugh Freeze experiment at Auburn continues to get worse every day for the Tigers.

Freeze is 8-9 in his first season and a half with Auburn and recently experienced a pair of embarrassing home losses to Cal and Arkansas.

Despite Saturday’s 24-14 loss to the Razorbacks, the oft-outspoken Freeze still found a way to talk s— on Arkansas and coach Sam Pittman during a radio show on Sunday night.

“I love Sam Pittman and I hope he wins the rest of his games,” Freeze said. “But I’m telling you that the hard truth is that if we play them 9 more times, we’d beat them 9 more times. That’s what’s hard to take.”

That’s a pretty bold take when you just lost by 10 at home! But Freeze may have some element of truth on his side. According to ESPN’s Bill Connelly, Arkansas had just a 6.8 percent postgame win expectancy! That was the lowest mark in the country among FBS teams to win on Saturday BY FAR. The next lowest was Monmouth, who beat FIU with an 18.0 percent postgame win expectancy.

Something tells us Pittman won’t give a hoot about what the numbers saw when his team walks out with a victory. But it’s clear that Freeze feels like his team should have won.

That may fly at other programs. But Auburn fans are sick of hearing about what their program should have done. At some point, Freeze needs to start winning football games, and it needs to happen sometime soon.

Lest he wind up like former Tigers coach Bryan Harsin.

Freeze also came under fire for his harsh criticism of Auburn quarterbacks Payton Thorne and Hank Brown.

“I know that there’s people open, and I know that we’re running the football,” Freeze said postgame. “We’ve got to find a guy that won’t throw it to the other team and we’ve got to find running backs that hold on to it.”

Auburn turned the ball over five times against the Razorbacks, including four interceptions and one fumble.