While UMass might be a stranger to the Auburn football program, the Minutemen and their head coach aren't strangers to Hugh Freeze.
Auburn first-year head coach Hugh Freeze has coached against UMass in each of the past four seasons — that’s four more times than Auburn football has ever battled the Minutemen of Amherst.
In 2022, when Brown returned to UMass – a place he was head coach from 2004-08 – he took over a program that had gone 1-11 and fired its coach midway through the season prior.Brown also inherited a program that had gone 2-26 over the course of three seasons under his predecessor, Walt Bell. “Offensively, the quarterback makes a huge difference,” Freeze said. “And Simpson and Johnson, those two transfer receivers, I think are really talented and explosive. So we’ve got our hands full. I believe that.”
Like the season before his arrival, Brown and the Minutemen finished 2022 with a record of 1-11. But UMass’ defense also ranked No. 9 nationally in fewest passing yards allowed.Which, for a team that ranks dead last at No. 133 in many outlets’ FBS rankings, isn’t all that bad. “That was a big challenge for us last year when we played them up at UMass. They created a lot of negative plays against us. We managed to score enough points to win the game, but it was a challenge. And so they have our full attention.”
“He gave me fits last year, and I’ve watched that game a lot of times,” Freeze said. “We scored 42 points and it felt like it was 12. It was hard.
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