Out of all games this season, this Saturday's game vs. Oklahoma will be particularly personal for Auburn's Jackson Arnold. The quarterback returns to his former team at his former home turf, and it is only natural for the chatter surrounding this highly-anticipated return to get the better of him.
Lucky for him, his coach Hugh Freeze has been in the same spot, just in different shoes.
It was in 2021 that Freeze faced the team he previously coached for five years, the Ole Miss Rebels, for the first time. But it was not the game that was the nerve-wrecking part; it was all the noise, expectations, and pressure surrounding it.