There's an old cliche in football that a team improves most between Weeks 1 and 2 of the season.
That's bad news for Auburn, because it didn't improve at all during its second game of the season—a 27-20 overtime win over Jacksonville State of Football Championship Subdivision.
The same problems Auburn found out about itself in the 31-24 season-opening win over Louisville were present in the home opener on the Plains, and they nearly cost the Tigers a loss and surely will knock them way down the Top 25 rankings—if they're even included at all.
As head coach Gus Malzahn noted, per James Crepea of AL.