Auburn football fans cheer during Auburn football A-Day spring game at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, April 17, 2021.
Auburn football fans are a prideful bunch, even after a down-year on the Plains in 2020.
COVID-19 forced several notable Tigers out of the lineup and Bo Nix was mired in a sophomore slump in what would be the final season of Gus Malzahn’s supposedly NFL readiness-repellent offense.
That said, despite the 6-5 record, Auburn still took care of business outside of the very best of the conference (Alabama, Georgia, Texas A&M) and had its worst off-day in years losing to the now-fired Will Muschamp’s South Carolina Gamecocks before losing to the Big Ten runner-up Northwestern Wildcats.