AUBURN — John Cohen effectively hit reset on Auburn football , announcing Sunday, Nov. 30, that Alex Golesh would be the 33rd head coach in program history. The former South Florida head coach's hire ends nearly a month-long search for Cohen, who said at the outset he was searching for someone with, above all else, an edge.

"You can call it blue collar, you can call it hard-nosed, you can call it aggressive, you can all it all those things," Cohen said Nov. 3. "That's usually priority No. 1, to find that part."

Golesh, 41, is young. Auburn will be just his second head-coaching job ever. But he took a South Florida program that was in a dismal state and turned it around in short order. That's exactly what Auburn needs, especially as an Iron Bowl loss over the weekend sealed a fift

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