SEC Football expert predicts Auburn to trend down from last season

There will be a ton of different opinions that surface this offseason about what Auburn football is capable of in the second year of the Bryan Harsin era.

David Ubben of The Athletic does not appear to be buying Auburn’s chances of success.

In his SEC Mailbag columnhe answered a pretty thoughtful question.

There were seven teams that finished 7-6 or 6-7 last year. Of that group, what team are you selling, and what team are you selling?

Ubben made cases for buying into Tennessee, Florida, Missouri, and Mississippi State.

The Auburn Tigers were among the teams that he is not as confident in.

“It seems impossible to recruit and run a program after what to return to a failed coup last month,” Ubben writes. “The concerns about Bryan Harsin’s recruiting and fit are very real and very fair, but recruiting has a real on-field impact, and unless he can win nine or 10 games in 2022, having a sizeable portion of power Brokers seemingly invested far more in Harsin’s Demise than his success is going to make life difficult. Beyond the uncomfortable atmosphere, recruiting is impossible in that kind of environment. “