AUBURN — Hugh Freeze eventually answered the most direct form of the question. While Auburn football will comb over its options under center this week, his current expectation is Jackson Arnold starting against Arkansas on Saturday, Oct. 25. ( 11:45 a.m. CT, SECN )

Freeze maneuvered around the topic Monday, Oct. 20. He's been high on how Arnold started against both Georgia and Missouri in eventual losses, but "You have to start looking at everything of: ‘All right, why do we not have the winning ways? And (why are we) sitting here feeling like we do?' " Freeze said.

The presumed next man up is Ashton Daniels , a two-year starter at Stanford who's yet to see the field for Auburn . He transferred to the program this offseason, with an unspoken expectation he'd fulfill a reser

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