The Auburn Tigers are 3-0 and are now shifting their focus to College Station, Texas.
Auburn will travel to Texas A&M to face the Aggies on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. CT for the SEC opener. SEC Nation will be on hand to preview the game between two of the top teams within the SEC West.
One of the biggest areas of concern for Auburn through three games is the quarterback rotation of [autotag]Payton Thorne[/autotag] and [autotag]Robby Ashford[/autotag]. In last week’s win over Samford, head coach [autotag]Hugh Freeze[/autotag] elected to use Thorne more. Thorne used the opportunity to gain 402 yards of total offense.
How will Auburn use their quarterbacks this week? Freeze addressed the rotation during Monday’s press conference.
“That’s the plan, as long as we are playing well. Look, this is like life. You got to do your job well, and if you do your job well, things usually work out and if you don’t, things usually don’t work out. We have confidence and I thought he (Thorne) threw it really well the other night. He made one bad decision, I thought, but the others, we kind of shed on as coaches, and so I hope he continues to build on that. The guy was 18 yards from doing something that an Auburn quarterback hasn’t done in a really long time, maybe ever. So, I hope we build on that and gain confidence from that. At the same time, I’ve been clear about Robby (Ashford) having a role and I do believe that, particularly against the level of athleticism we are about to see. I think there is a role for him, too. He threw it well when he came in the other night, but you can’t be ‘herky-jerky, in-and-out’ and that’s something we all agree on.”
The head coach covered everything on Monday from injury concerns, red zone woes, and setting up to battle Bobby Petrino’s offense. Here’s everything Hugh Freeze said ahead of this Saturday’s game at Texas A&M.