The Auburn Express

Auburn football has reached a critical point in the 2026 season, and the bye week could not have arrived at a better time. After a frustrating 24 to 14 loss against Tennessee, Alex Golesh and the Tigers have major questions to answer before traveling to Athens to face Georgia. Auburn showed enough against Tennessee to make the loss hurt even more, but offensive inconsistency, problems up front and...

Auburn Football has a Byrum Brown problem, but it might not be the problem everyone thinks. Brown has thrown an interception in every Power Four game Auburn has played this season. His decision making has been inconsistent. He has missed throws, held the football too long at times and made mistakes that Auburn simply cannot afford in close SEC games. But there is another side to this conversation....

Auburn Football has plenty of problems coming out of the loss to Tennessee, but the defense should not be at the top of the list. The biggest questions continue to surround Auburn’s offense. Auburn scored only 14 points against Tennessee, and even that number does not completely explain how much the Tigers struggled. Xavier Atkins created a short field with an interception that helped set up seven...

Auburn Football has reached the bye week, and there is no avoiding the biggest question surrounding this team anymore: What is wrong with the offense? Five games into the season, Auburn continues to struggle to consistently produce points. For an offense led by Alex Golesh, that makes the situation even more frustrating. The offensive line has struggled, the running game has not consistently produ...

Auburn football has reached the bye week at 3 and 2, and Alex Golesh has two weeks to figure out what has gone wrong with an offense that simply has not been consistent enough through the first five games. The biggest question starts with Auburn’s offensive line. Auburn has struggled to consistently run the football, procedural mistakes have hurt drives, and protection issues have contributed to p...

Auburn Football has reached the bye week, and now the difficult questions have to be asked. Can this offense actually be fixed? Auburn’s offensive struggles against Tennessee were not isolated to one position. The offensive line has struggled. The running game has not become what was promised during the offseason. The play calling has been questioned. Byrum Brown has turned the football over too o...

Auburn Football had fourth and one against Tennessee with a chance to keep a critical drive alive. Byrum Brown had already shown he could hurt Tennessee with his legs, Auburn needed less than a yard, and instead the Tigers pitched the football backward and tried to beat an athletic Tennessee defense to the edge. It failed. That decision has become one of the biggest talking points coming out of Au...

Auburn Football just let another winnable SEC game get away. The Tigers fell 24 to 14 against Tennessee in a game where Auburn’s defense did enough to give the offense an opportunity to win. Auburn actually outgained Tennessee 345 to 323, but those numbers do not tell the entire story. For a large portion of the game, Auburn’s offense struggled to generate anything consistently. That brings the co...

Auburn Football had its chances in Knoxville, but penalties, missed tackles and an inability to stop Tennessee’s rushing attack ultimately proved too much to overcome in a 24 to 14 loss at Neyland Stadium. Alex Golesh did not run away from responsibility afterward. Auburn struggled badly to find an offensive rhythm during the first half, with seven false starts becoming one of the biggest stories...

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BREAKING: Tennessee is dealing with significant injury concerns heading into the Auburn game, and there is one area Auburn absolutely has to test Saturday in Knoxville. The Tennessee offensive line is already trying to recover from a difficult performance against Texas, and now injuries could force the Volunteers to shuffle that unit even more. Wendell Moe Jr. was one of Tennessee’s most experienc...

ALERT: Auburn football is headed to Knoxville for a matchup with Tennessee, and this might be the week Auburn has to finally unlock everything Byrum Brown and the running game can do. The talent is there. Brown has already shown throughout his career that he can hurt defenses with his arm and his legs. Jeremiah Cobb gives Auburn speed and explosiveness from the running back position. The question...

Today’s show is brought to you in part by KALSHI! America’s #1 prediction market. Visit http://kalshi.com/r/Rapport to get your signup bonus today! Auburn football is staring at a game that could completely change the direction of the season. During a conversation on The Paul Finebaum Show on ESPN, the focus turns to Auburn’s upcoming SEC road matchup against Tennessee and just how important this...

ALERT: Auburn football is heading into a matchup with a Tennessee defense that might be much better than people expected coming into the 2026 season. Jim Knowles has arrived in Knoxville and the early returns have been impressive. Tennessee already had talent on defense, but this unit is playing faster, creating pressure and giving quarterbacks completely different pictures before and after the sn...

BREAKING news ahead of Auburn football’s trip to Knoxville could make one of the biggest matchups of the game even more interesting. Tennessee has lost experienced offensive lineman Wendell Moe Jr. for the season, creating another major question for an offensive line that just had a brutal afternoon protecting true freshman quarterback Faizon Brandon against Texas. Now Auburn gets its opportunity....

Auburn football is heading to Knoxville for its first true road test of the 2026 season, and there are storylines everywhere heading into this SEC matchup against Tennessee. Alex Golesh returns to Neyland Stadium after previously serving as Tennessee’s offensive coordinator under Josh Heupel. He will not be the only familiar face making the trip. Kodi Burns and Tim Banks also have recent Tennessee...

Today’s show is brought to you in part by KALSHI! America’s #1 prediction market. Visit http://kalshi.com/r/Rapport to get your signup bonus today! This episode of Fourth and Fore breaks down Auburn’s offensive identity, the need to start faster, the play of the wide receivers, missed tackles on defense, and why the Tennessee game could tell Auburn fans a lot about where this team is headed. The T...

Breaking news out of Knoxville changes the entire dynamic for Auburn's upcoming road clash at Neyland Stadium! Tennessee standout offensive lineman Wendell Moe Jr. has been ruled out for the season, and rotational guard Sham Umarov is listed as questionable. In this episode of The Auburn Express (powered by The War Rapport), Ike Jones breaks down why this shuffled Volunteer front line gives DJ Dur...

ALERT: What would three wins in October mean for Auburn football and Alex Golesh? Everything changes. Auburn entered this brutal stretch with reasonable questions about whether the Tigers could simply survive October. But imagine Auburn finding three wins and entering November at 6 and 2. That would move the needle. The conversation around Golesh's first season would immediately change from whethe...

Auburn heads to Knoxville for their first SEC road test of the Alex Golesh era as they take on the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium! Host Ike Jones is joined by SEC analyst and legend Ron Slay to break down everything you need to know ahead of this weekend's matchup: Tennessee's Offense & Line Play: Slay evaluates true freshman QB Faizon Brandon's early performance, how the Vols' big offens...

ALERT: Auburn football has a chance to change the entire conversation around Alex Golesh's first season. Beat Tennessee on the road. Auburn's victory over Vanderbilt mattered. It moved the Tigers to 3 and 1 and gave fans another reason to keep believing. But one victory over Vanderbilt is not enough to prove Auburn football is headed where everybody wants it to go. A road SEC win would be differen...

Auburn football slow starts have become the thing I am watching closest as the Tigers get ready to go to Tennessee. Auburn has found ways to win football games, and I am not going to apologize for appreciating that. The ball has bounced Auburn's way a couple of times this season after spending years watching those same breaks go the other direction. Take the win. Celebrate it. But Alex Golesh is r...

ALERT: Auburn football beat Vanderbilt, but the way the Tigers won raises another major question about this offense. Why does Auburn seem to find its best plays only when it absolutely has to have them? The Tigers have struggled with slow starts, inconsistent offensive sequencing and an inability to consistently score touchdowns. Yet when Auburn reaches desperation mode, suddenly the offense can l...

WARNING: Auburn football cannot take this version of its first quarter offense on the road to Tennessee. The Tigers are winning games, but the slow starts are becoming impossible to ignore. Auburn has repeatedly struggled to establish offensive rhythm early. The opening scripts are not producing points, the running game has become predictable, and the offense too often seems to wait for Byrum Brow...

Auburn football has a Byrum Brown question that needs an answer: Is Auburn getting enough out of one of the most dynamic running quarterbacks in college football? Alex Golesh was asked directly about using Byrum Brown more intentionally in the quarterback run game, and his answer makes it clear that Auburn is walking a fine line. Brown has the ability to create explosive plays with his legs, but A...