Auburn football: Analyst says portion of fans don’t even know Bo Nix transferred to Oregon

Former Auburn football quarterback Bo Nix transferred to Oregon last December to reunite with his 2019 Tigers offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham — and Late Kick host Josh Pate doesn’t even believe a portion of college football fans are aware of that fact.

Pate described a scenario where many fans open up a college football preview magazine ahead of the August 27th Week Zero opening of the 2022 FBS schedule and see Nix in neon for the very first time.

Needless to say, it truly does just matter more in the SEC as opposed to the Pac-12, which is practically on its deathbed with UCLA and USC making way to the Big Ten and Oregon, Utah, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, and Colorado flirting with the Big 12.

Josh Pate: Bo Nix could make Auburn football look bad in 2022

Pate would later say that Nix was important to college football on a national scale for a few reasons. The first is the possibility of Nix leading Oregon to the Pac-12 championship making Dillingham look good and causing there to be even more questions about the Auburn football program than there already has been this offseason. He even invoked the name of Gus Malzahn in explaining how a different staff could bring out the most of Nix, some 2,600 miles away from where he was thought to be destined to be in his home state.

Pate fairly called out the constant churning and transitioning that occurred during Nix’s Auburn career, saying that the JABA myth could be validated and turned into truth by a potential Pac-12 championship in Eugene.

On the flipside, Nix could flop and be written off as a first-year sunk cost for rookie Ducks HC Dan Lanning. With Class of 2023 5-star No. 2 QB Dante Moore Oregon-bound–Pate implied that most in the know consider him to be superior to Arch Manning as the No. 1 signal-caller in the country–Nix could just be a first-year growing pain that can be replaced by Ty Thompson or Jay Butterfield at any point.