Bo Wallace loosened his fingers Saturday evening, and the man they call “Dr. Bo” went to work with a surgeon’s precision as he disemboweled Hugh Freeze, his former coach, one social media post at a time.

And the whole episode might have come off unhinged, if the good doctor had not made so much sense.

“Why is it someone else’s fault every time there’s a loss?” Wallace wrote, while warming up his scalpel.

Yes, that’s a fair assessment of Freeze, always blaming his players after losses.

Like how Freeze said this after his Auburn Tigers lost 24-14 to Arkansas amid an embarrassing display of turnovers: “I know that there’s people open, and I know that we’re running the football. We’ve got to find a guy that won’t throw it to the other team, and we’ve got to find running backs that hold onto it.”

And Auburn (2-2) needs a coach who’ll develop players to stop handing the ball to the other team. Freeze is failing. I wonder if he notices.

Freeze commended Auburn's scheme and play-calls after this latest loss.

"I thought the plan was really good," Freeze said.

Of course he did.

Freeze called Auburn's offensive performance "sickening" and "miserable to watch." He's not wrong, but how about taking some responsibility, coach?

Wallace, who wrote that he still feels tire tracks from Freeze throwing him under the bus at Ole Miss, said it best: “Look in the mirror.”

Yes, Hugh, look in the mirror and realize that you bear responsibility for this miserableness, too, after deciding no transfer quarterback was worth investing in and rolling with this bad batch of quarterbacks.

And, while he's taking stock of the coach standing in that mirror, ask why Auburn has racked up 14 turnovers throughout four games this season.

If Freeze just wants to draw plays, he should go work for an X’s and O’s lab. Play-calling is a sliver of a coach’s job. Roster evaluation and assembly, plus player development, are hallmarks of the job. Freeze is coming up short.

Here's a little research: In Freeze’s seven seasons as an SEC coach, his quarterbacks have tallied 95 interceptions. Eight games remain this season. The number might eclipse 100 interceptions in seven SEC seasons by Halloween.

Freeze’s interception parade dates to Wallace to Chad Kelly (who were respectable quarterbacks, interceptions aside) at Ole Miss to now Payton Thorne and Hank Brown, who aren’t the talents that Wallace and Kelly were.

Freeze once was a visionary, bringing tempo and a heavy dose of run-pass option plays to the SEC at Ole Miss when most coaches were clinging to the past. Now, though, nearly everyone incorporates RPOs and plenty of coaches embrace tempo.

The difference is, those programs aren’t piling up picks as they go.

Freeze's system at Auburn isn’t that much different than what most teams run nowadays, so if he’s not providing any cutting-edge X’s and O’s, then he at least needs to teach the fundamentals of ball control.

His message isn’t getting through, no matter which quarterback takes the snaps.

Freeze, when he took a brief break from ridiculing his quarterbacks, acknowledged his staff is “not doing a very good job coaching quarterbacks.”

Actually, he's doing so poorly at it, he’s making Bryan Harsin look like a quarterback savant.

But, go ahead and tell us all about how you nearly beat Nick Saban for a third time. As it is, Freeze’s two victories against Saban carry a lot of water on a résumé that gets worse each time Auburn takes the field.

And with each interception and each loss, Freeze’s decision to not acquire a transfer quarterback before this season looks worse.

Dr. Bo had a thought on that, too.

“He’s thrown so many QBs under the bus that maybe no one wants to play for him,” Wallace wrote.

Playing quarterback for Freeze becomes a recipe for interceptions and public ridicule.

Michigan beats USC with 'dream' recipe

Southern Cal lost 27-24 to Michigan in a game in which the winning team had 32 passing yards. Yep, that sounds like Big Ten football.

“I love it. It’s my dream,” Michigan coach Sherrone Moore said of winning this way.

Michigan bruiser Kalel Mullings rushed eight times for 84 yards on Michigan’s winning drive.

USC isn’t as soft as it was previously in Lincoln Riley’s tenure, but it’s not as physical as Michigan, either. The Wolverines won in the trenches, but they didn’t cure all that ailed them against Texas. They still don’t have a quarterback.

Texas is one of the nation’s most physically dominant teams. That neutralized Michigan’s strength, and the Longhorns were vastly superior at quarterback and wide receiver. A rematch between those teams probably wouldn’t go much differently. But, the Wolverines remain physically superior to most opponents, including USC.

Divisions are dead, but this felt like a bout befitting the old Big Ten West.

Utah headlines Big 12 race, but Oklahoma State not out

In the four-team playoff era, Oklahoma State’s playoff credentials would’ve struggled to survive a 22-19 home loss to Utah. That’s the beauty of the expanded playoff. One loss need not ruin a season, and the rest of the Cowboys’ schedule looks manageable. Potential landmines exist in road games against Kansas State and BYU, but if OSU survives those, it could reach the Big 12 Championship for a possible rematch with Utah.

Still, if these teams meet again and another rock fight ensues, it’s advantage Utah.

Utes coach Kyle Wittingham knows what he’s about. In a word, toughness.

Heat check!

Still warm, but air kicked on: Arkansas’ Sam Pittman. The Head Hog gained a dose of Freon with Arkansas’ win against Auburn, but he’s got six games left against ranked opponents.

Still in heat: Florida’s Billy Napier. The Gators’ 45-28 win over hopeless Mississippi State kicked the can down the road.

He’s a-blazin’: Baylor’s Dave Aranda. He’s 25-27 at Baylor after an overtime loss to Colorado.

Funnily enough, a Gators fan wrote to me recently suggesting Florida should consider Aranda. That’s one from the playbook of: Availability is the best ability. Neither Aranda nor Napier should have any plans for next season.

Three and out

1. Imagine Oklahoma convincing itself it could be better off with quarterback Jackson Arnold instead of Dillion Gabriel. The Sooners are a mess on offense. It showed in a 25-15 loss to Tennessee. Arnold had three turnovers. He’s not the entire problem. A feeble offensive line contributes to the ugliness, but Gabriel would make chicken salad of this poultry poo.

2. Josh Heupel’s 59th career victory marked a rarity: This was only his second win when his team scored fewer than 30 points. Heupel’s strategy of trusting defense, special teams and ball control showed some maturation. He resisted the urge to try to dig the knife into OU and played it smart.

3. The latest "Topp Rope" 12-team playoff projections: Georgia (SEC), Ohio State (Big Ten), Utah (Big 12), Miami (ACC), UNLV (Group of Five), plus at-large selections Texas, Ole Miss, Alabama, Tennessee, Penn State, Oregon and USC. Next up: Missouri.

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