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Ex-Tigers coach Gene Chizik doesn’t expect Auburn to move to SEC East

AUBURN, Ala. – Talk of Auburn moving to the SEC East again has bubbled up, with former coach Pat Dye and current coach Gus Malzahn saying it makes sense. But another former Auburn coach doesn’t think it will occur.

“In my opinion, it’s not going to happen,” Gene Chizik said Wednesday on ESPN 106.7 “The Lunch Break” in Auburn. “If it was going to happen, it would have happened when they expanded to 14 teams (in 2012).

“Geographically, it makes sense. What I will say is that it creates a lot of unintended consequences when you start making moves.