Robert Woodyard Jr. had seemingly stripped the ball from Ball State's ball carrier, taking the ball straight from his hands and going down with full possession.
Unfortunately for Auburn, the play had been prematurely whistled dead for forward progress. Hugh Freeze didn't take kindly to that fact, quickly getting on the referees for what he saw as a bad call. In fact, the Auburn head coach was so angry, he called a timeout to let the crew calling the game know exactly how mad he was.
The competition got the best of Freeze at one moment, as he called out the line judge who happened to be in his first year refereeing SEC games.
"You need to go back to your other conference," Freeze told the official, according to the Auburn coach's appearance on Tiger Talk on Monday.
Freeze said he later apologized, but we are confident that certain official might remember his first run-in with the third-year Auburn coach.
The call wouldn't cost the Tigers, though, as they went on to beat the Cardinals 42-3 to improve to 2-0 on the season.