Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images The 2020 Auburn football season ended on the first day of the New Year with more of a whimper than anything else. Auburn fell to Northwestern 35-19 in the Citrus Bowl, and it wasn’t even as close as the final margin might indicate.
Northwestern came in with a game plan to play clean, powerful football, and they put it to use perfectly against an Auburn Tiger team with no head coach, a roster of assistants who’ll likely be unemployed tomorrow, and a slew of players out for different reasons. The Wildcats had probably their best offensive game of the season, rolling up 35 points and 457 yards on the day while Auburn faltered time and again with many of…
