Final 2025 SEC power rankings: 11 - Auburn
The Tigers limped to the finish line this season after a lot of excitement before the year about their potential. They actually finished pretty well in rankings like SP+, but it’s only so much comfort to know that they were the best 5-7 team in the country.
Just like in Fayetteville, the new coach in Auburn will have to do some work to build this team from the ground up. Most of the Tigers’ difference-makers— Cam Coleman chief among them— have gone out the door this transfer portal cycle, including all three of the top Auburn quarterbacks from this past year.
The Tigers will probably be better off with USF’s Byrum Brown, who’s reuniting with Alex Golesh after the dynamic pairing worked out pretty well in Tampa. We’ll see if his game can translate to the SEC, but it can’t be worse than some of what we saw in this past year at the signal caller position for the Tigers.
As far as evaluating this past year for Auburn, though, it really was nothing short of a colossal disaster. There were some near-big wins— on the road at Texas A&M and Vanderbilt, as well as the Iron Bowl— but disastrous losses like Kentucky were costly in many ways. This was a failing grade, full stop.