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Auburn’s biggest heartbreak during the 2023 season

By Justin Alcaide

Fly War Eagle takes a look at the biggest heartbreaking development of the Auburn football program has faced during the 2023 season Mandatory Credit: The Montgomery Advertiser
Fly War Eagle takes a look at the biggest heartbreaking development of the Auburn football program has faced during the 2023 season Mandatory Credit: The Montgomery Advertiser /
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Auburn football is having a truly amazing season this year; having performed well and putting teams on notice following a four-game losing streak to start SEC play.

The future looks very bright for the program with those lickings behind them. Players like Jarquez Hunter and Payton Thorne have carried the high-powered offense all season after starting slow. Defensively this team has looked dominant on several occasions, even against the two-time defending College Football Playoff Champions Georgia.

So much is going right for the team this season, but deep down everyone is still wondering what if over someone who could’ve spearheaded the winning.

Bo Nix could’ve had Auburn football contending for a College Football Playoff spot

One of the many unforgivable acts of Bryan Harsin’s tenure, perhaps the one that best exemplifies his failures, was making things so miserable for Bo Nix that he felt the only way forward in 2021 was to transfer out of the program he waited his whole life to play for.

At the time, Tiger fans knew that the program being left in the hands of TJ Finley and whoever else Harsin would find wouldn’t lead to greatness. Landing on Robby Ashford and Zach Calzada, Harsin never did find someone capable of filling Nix’s shoes.

Now, in 2023, Nix is making good on the “focused and having fun” A-Day meme — to the point where a Heisman victory is the most likely outcome as the regular season winds down.

No one can say for certain that Nix still would win the award in the SEC if he had stayed, but Auburn undoubtedly has a higher ceiling with the Pinson product than any of the passers it currently possesses under center.

In many ways, seeing Nix reach his potential elsewhere is the biggest heartbreak of the 2023 season for the Auburn family.

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