Auburn football turned down its bowl bid to concentrate on its offseason rebuild.

After deliberations with Auburn athletics director John Cohen, the Tigers’ vision for 2026 is far greater than postseason play to end this season.

“John Cohen and I talked about it at length, twice. To be able to get the guys back here, to be able to do what we have to do to go field a football team that can go win with so many conversations happening right now about roster management — I would tell you about 75% of the guys aren’t here. I think that would be really unrealistic and not fair to the kids more than anybody else," Golesh said Monday afternoon.

As of now, Auburn has had seven players enter the transfer portal since Golesh was hired. The portal window will be open from Jan. 2-16 and Golesh is m

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