Welcome to can’t-pretend-anymore weekend, where delusions go to die. After college football’s Week 10 , we now can stop pretending …

∎ That Auburn will do anything but fire Hugh Freeze . He’s toast. There’s no recovering from a 10-3 loss to Kentucky for a third-year SEC coach. Auburn fans are as indefatigable as any, but even they cried uncle on the Freeze tenure and headed toward the Jordan-Hare Stadium exits early. Those who stayed ‘til the end booed Freeze as he left the field.

If Auburn has any self-respect for its football program, Freeze will have a buyout check in his hand by high noon.

Consider this a five-year comeuppance for Auburn firing Gus Malzahn in 2020 and forking over what, at the time, ranked as the largest buyout in the sport’s history. Malzahn never served a

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