The Auburn Tigers are 3-0 through the first three games of the 2025 season, something they were in Bryan Harsin's first season in 2021 and Hugh Freeze's first season in 2023. Those six-win campaigns were, unfortunately, the last two years AU made a bowl game.
Those seasons were different, though. Very different.
One team never had a chance to do much, given the circumstances. The other made goofy slip-ups that prevented that season from being an eight-win effort.
2021 was a rise, to 6-2 and ranked in the top 15, and a fall from the heavens to the underworld after a 20-3 one-sided beatdown at the hands of the Texas A&M Aggies, followed by Bo Nix's injury during the infamous blown 28-3 lead over Mississippi State that became an unfathomable 43-34 loss.