Arkansas Thanks Auburn for Firing Its Offensive Coordinator

Really, it's Christmas in early October when your opponent cans its offensive coordinator midweek. Frustrated Arkansas took the news in stride, piling up 400+ yards in a 25-22 victory over Auburn tonight.

At one point midway through the fourth quarter, Auburn had cobbled together just 109 yards of offense before a pair of desperation drives pushed the Tigers to a whopping 193 yards on the night. Not good.

At College Football FanHouse we're still scratching our heads over Auburn's decision to terminate spread whiz offensive coordinator Tony Franklin. With or without him the results are the same, and look particularly problematic when they may not have actually run much of his offense while he was there. To Auburn's credit, they did make use of spread-friendly quarterback Kodi Burns.

Burns rewarded them with their only offense of the night. Powerback Ben Tate gained just 32 yards on the ground and erstwhile starting quarterback Chris Todd completed just three of 10 pass attempts for 18 yards and an interception.

Burns threw a pair of interceptions, but also picked up 38 yards on the ground and another 119 through the air (6.6 average -- hey, it's an improvement). Without him Auburn stares at a sub-100 yard performance against one of the SEC's worst teams.

So no, Toomer's Corner will not get the toilet paper tonight, Tiger fans will not rest easy and we can only assume megabooster Bobby Lowder is making another run at damaged goods Bobby Petrino who pretends to actually care about running a functional offense.