In Hugh Freeze’s first year, Auburn’s offense is, at times, a competent seeming group with a strong rushing attack that can really move the ball down the field. But when those rushes eventually get bottled up, the Tigers have no semblance of a downfield passing game, and things just kind of fall apart for them.
The Freeze offense was once innovative with its plethora of pre-snap motions to mesh with outside zone and zone read hand handoffs all at warp speed with RPOs making up the bulk of the passing game. The rest of college football jumped onto the good parts of this offense about 7 years ago, though, and now it looks indistinguishable from most anyone’s offense out there these days.