Top HC candidate tweets message Tiger fans take as sign of Auburn interest

It was a big day for Auburn football on November 12, as the Tigers took down Texas A&M at Jordan-Hare Stadium to win their first game since September 24 when Mizzou refused to beat AU and send Bryan Harsin packing when it had the chance.

Harsin was fired on October 31, and since, Auburn football has thrived under interim head coach Carnell “Cadillac” Williams — coming back down 21 to nearly beat Mississippi State Week 10 in what turned out to be an overtime heartbreaker and then taking a lead on the Aggies in Week 11 and never looking back before downing Texas A&M 13-10.

Depending on how you look at it, AU may have gotten another win due to Alabama’s 30-24 victory at Vaught–Hemingway Stadium over Ole Miss. While a Crimson Tide triumph is practically never a good thing to most Tiger fans, in this case, it was since top Auburn head coaching candidate Lane Kiffin may have moved even closer to the Plains.

After the loss, Kiffin tweeted out a cryptic message about what God puts one through in order to grow, and many fans are taking it as a sign that Kiffin is at least considering becoming the next head coach of the Auburn Tigers:

Auburn football has everything Lane Kiffin wants in a program

What Ole Miss lacks, Auburn football has in abundance. A student section that will show up and fill the stands, screaming their lungs out no matter what the team’s record is? Check. Millions to throw at a new head coach despite the program still paying the last two? Check. Being in one of the most talent-rich regions of the country, with Georgia and Florida all much closer to the Plains than Oxford? Check.

Auburn is the next step up for Kiffin, and it seems as though he’s embracing the lack of comfortability being Nick Saban’s team’s most heated rival already.