Auburn football: 5 Bo Nix transfer portal landing spots

If Bo Nix actually does end up transferring from the Auburn football program, a large swath of Tiger fans ought to be ashamed of their behavior that led to that.

Nix has been a lightning rod all season and has caught the blame for the team’s early-season loss to Penn State–which could alternatively be contributed to play-calling gaffes by Mike Bobo and a phantom Zakoby McClain targeting call on fourth and goal that would have given AU the ball back down one with over 12 minutes left to go–and the team’s near-loss to Georgia State a week later that required TJ Finley to come in and save the day in the fourth quarter.

That GA State game lost goodwill with many fans, but Nix’s performances against LSU, Arkansas, Ole Miss in wins, and even against Mississippi State in a loss, where he threw for a career-high 377 passing yards, should have won it back.

But some look at the legacy QB, son of Patrick Nix, and don’t want him to succeed. And that treatment actually has Nix considering the unthinkable:

If Nix decides that he doesn’t want to continue being treated the way he has, and decides the pressure of playing on the Plains isn’t worth the slander he sees on a constant basis, these 5 schools that previously registered interest in the former 5-star dual-threat could be potential transfer portal landing spots: