TRUE: Auburn's 2026 Schedule Is TOUGH But It Doesn't Matter, MAJOR Test For Alex Golesh

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4.6 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Auburn Tigers brace for a grueling 2026 football schedule—can Alex Golesh’s squad stack enough early wins to weather the SEC’s toughest stretch yet? With matchups against Baylor, Florida, Georgia, LSU, and Ole Miss, every week demands peak performance and roster cohesion. The SEC opener at home versus Florida puts first-year head coaches Alex Golesh and Jon Sumrall under the spotlight, raising the stakes in a high-pressure faceoff. Zac Blackerby breaks down Auburn’s strategic opportunities to capitalize on new coaching hires, portal-driven roster rebuilds, and critical home-field advantages against Arkansas, Mississippi State, and Vanderbilt. Key topics include Lane Kiffin’s anticipated return to Jordan-Hare Stadium with LSU, quarterback uncertainties, and why dominating the transfer portal is more essential than ever. Will Auburn’s talented roster rise to the challenge, or will the SEC’s expanded schedule redefine their path to contention?

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0:00.0	Auburn's 2026 schedule is absolutely brutal, but it doesn't matter.
0:11.3	You are Locked on Auburn, your daily podcast on the Auburn Tigers.
0:16.5	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:21.9	Yes, welcome on into Locked on Auburn, your daily Auburn Tigers podcast.
0:26.5	I'm your host, Zach Blackerby, and thank you so much for making Locked on Auburn,
0:29.5	your first listen every single day.
0:33.2	Wanted to run through Auburn's 2026 schedule.
0:36.7	That was announced a few days ago.
0:38.3	And due to, I had to pre-record a lot of the shows that you guys have seen since then.
0:42.9	So I wanted to take a few minutes on this Sunday morning edition of the show to dive into it.
0:48.7	Yes, it's brutal.
0:50.3	We all knew it was brutal.
0:51.8	We saw the, uh, the opponents.
0:55.2	Now we get to see exactly the order and the layout of it.
0:59.3	We knew it was going to be tough, but who cares?
1:02.3	Who cares?
1:04.0	Everybody's schedule in the SEC is tough now.
1:07.7	That's what going from eight SEC games to nine SEC games looks like.
1:11.7	And John Cohen giving up the Baylor game at home to play it in Atlanta, makes it even
1:16.6	tougher. Is it worth it from an NIL standpoint? We'll see. We'll see how the roster looks,
1:22.7	but it certainly could be worth it, not pushing back on that at all, but let's see what it
1:27.1	looks like after the
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