🚨 Auburn Fires Hugh Freeze | Top Coaching Candidates for Auburn | Cover 3 College Football
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with an instant reaction to Auburn firing Hugh Freeze. Who are the top candidates to replace him?
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:00) - Auburn Fires Hugh Freeze
(00:14:00) - What's Next For Hugh
(00:15:30) - Top Candidates
(00:33:00) - Top 3 Candidates for Auburn
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
| 0:11.7 | It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.6 | That's Tom for Nelly. I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:32.6 | Come to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 and everywhere to get your podcast on demand. |
| 0:38.7 | Thanks for hanging out. |
| 0:43.6 | Smash that subscribe, smash that like and come and join us in the chat where you see those sirens in your feed. |
| 0:44.9 | You know exactly what that means. |
| 0:48.3 | A big thank you to Auburn Athletic Director John Cohen for following on our late Saturday |
| 0:53.6 | night request. We knew he was a |
| 0:55.3 | listener we just didn't know if he was going to have enough time to listen we just asked him to |
| 0:59.9 | delay until after church and they did so thanks john i appreciate that i'm i'm still in church chip |
| 1:06.1 | there we go the church a kid that's's right. Auburn has fired Hugh Freeze. |
| 1:13.0 | According to our friends, Matt Zen, it's Brandon Marcella, Richard Johnson, the rest of the team of the insiders. |
| 1:20.0 | No negotiated buyout number. |
| 1:22.1 | That means $15.4 million plus the remaining salary. |
| 1:27.3 | We are expecting DJ Durkin, right, to be our interim coach? |
| 1:33.0 | The interim coach, yes. |
| 1:34.1 | DJ Durkin takes over as the interim coach. And now Auburn joins- |
| 1:38.6 | Stay hydrated, kids. |
| 1:40.8 | Now Auburn joins the list of high-profile jobs that will be open here in this 25-26 coaching cycle. |
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