The Auburn Undercover team just revealed its top Auburn coaching candidates after Hugh Freeze was fired on Nov. 2

On Sunday, the Auburn athletics department named defensive coordinator DJ Durkin interim head coach. Durkin has two years of head-coaching experience at Maryland, where he was fired after investigations into the death of a player and the program’s culture.

The trend continues after Auburn resumed what has been a litany of in-season firings by big-time programs. Hugh Freeze joins Billy Napier of the Florida Gators, James Franklin of the Penn State Nittany Lions, and Brian Kelly of the LSU Tigers to all be relieved of their duties before the season was up.

Kentucky continues to bring up the rear at the base of the SEC and is still searching for its first conference win of the year ahead of Saturday’s trip to face Auburn. The Tigers aren’t much better off by comparison,

Auburn's athletics director plans to hire after the Iron Bowl, focusing on finding a coach who can develop quarterbacks and "give back to the fanbase" following recent program instability.

It seems like all too common I’ve started out this post on Sunday frustrated by another Kentucky loss the day before. But today, it’s different because we wake up today following a Kentucky victory. It wasn’t pretty by any stretch of the imagination,