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WARNING: Auburn Might Be Better Than You Think | Byrum Brown Leads Improved Offense | Auburn Football Podcast

The Auburn Express

September 14, 2026

Was Auburn football underrated after the Baylor game? Auburn's 43 to 8 win over Southern Miss should at least force another look at some of the assumptions made about this team after Week 1. Auburn didn't play its best football against Baylor, but still found a way to win.

Speakers Ike Jones, Mike G

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Ike Jones (3:19)

It was like only 17 points. I was like, man, y'all doing some good things.

You never know, you come out this half.

I was like, yeah, brother. Yeah, this is not not quite what you predicted on this one. But yes, what you're supposed to do against this level of competition, because here's the thing. He was confident because he was covering a team that was confident, and that team felt like they could come in and compete with Auburn. Yeah, little did they know that is not a factual thing. You could not. I think and I will say this again. I think people are underrating how much better Baylor is this year. They assigned how poorly that outcome looked for Auburn to, Oh, Auburn is not any good, as opposed to Baylor's might actually be better than we thought they were. And maybe Auburn's a little bit better than they looked in that game. Now, again, I'm not making any grand assessments for what Auburn's record is going to be the rest of this season. I just don't. I think the overreaction to the Baylor game caused people to somehow think Auburn was going. Not just Southern Miss writers. I'm talking about people in our comment section who were coming in here saying, I have a sneaking feeling Auburn's going to struggle in this game. And this is going to look like a one score game going into the fourth quarter. And I don't think Kyle comes on here and he's like, if Auburn's up three or four scores, you got to get Byrum Brown out of there. And people are scoffing at this. What do you mean three or four scores? There's no way Auburn's going to be up three or four scores in this game. And all of the, I hope I'm wrong crowd that's out there like, I think Auburn's going to struggle in this game, but I hope I'm wrong. All of those people look silly today. Yeah. And hold on, one more thing, Mike, because I'm going to get on these people for you.

Everybody who in this first game told Mike he was absolutely insane for picking Auburn to beat the breaks off of Baylor and has been in our comments section for a full week trying to say, Mike G, you're crazy and I don't know how you can say that after what we just saw that they're going to come out here and beat Southern Miss. None of those people have showed up to say, Mike you were right about Southern Miss.

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