AUBURN — The news felt inevitable the night before, when Auburn football fell in dismal fashion to a struggling Kentucky team at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Surely, there was no way Hugh Freeze could come back from this.

It left the coach with little to say postgame, and his comments turned out to be the last public utterings of his Auburn tenure.

The program announced Freeze's firing Sunday, Nov. 2, marking its third head coaching change in five years. Auburn has saddled itself with another seven-figure buyout and elevated another assistant, this time DJ Durkin , to head coach in the interim. TROUBLING PAST: What to know about Auburn interim head coach DJ Durkin's Maryland tenure

It seemed certain, but Freeze's firing was far from guaranteed. Auburn had plenty of chances to move on

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