{"id":1172705,"date":"2025-07-15T14:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1172705"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T20:20:41","slug":"diego-pavia-addresses-success-over-hugh-freeze-auburn-at-sec-media-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/diego-pavia-addresses-success-over-hugh-freeze-auburn-at-sec-media-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Pavia Addresses Success Over Hugh Freeze, Auburn at SEC Media Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more interesting narratives headed into SEC Media Days is the fact that both Diego Pavia and Hugh Freeze were going to be part of the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Though the unlikely pair\u2019s programs were lined up on different days, they are very much entangled due to the fact that in three different matchups, they have faced off. And whether Pavia was at New Mexico State or Vanderbilt and Freeze was at Liberty or Auburn, Pavia has found a way to beat Freeze coached teams three straight times now.<\/p>\n<p>With the Commodores and Tigers set to face off again this year, Pavia addressed his success over Freeze on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Diego Pavia answers a question about being 2-0 vs Hugh Freeze and Auburn. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e61BNhb5A1\">pic.twitter.com\/e61BNhb5A1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zac Blackerby (@Zblackerby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zblackerby\/status\/1944853500615106636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean Hugh Freeze is a great coach and they have a very well run program at Auburn,\u201d Pavia said, taking a more modest stance than some expected from him. \u201cIt\u2019s a battle of the warriors and I feel like it comes down to who is more prepared that week. Obviously we\u2019ve got the best of him two times and obviously we always want it to play in our favor, but they run a well-ran program and they got some good talent there too. So it\u2019ll be a fun game in Nashville this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pavia has now beaten Auburn two times \u2014 once with New Mexico State in Freeze\u2019s first year and last year with Vanderbilt \u2014 and with the game at home this season, he hopes to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>He also defeated Freeze with New Mexico State when Freeze was coaching Liberty<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not that he can make it a fourth consecutive personal win over Freeze remains to be seen, but the Auburn head coach will likely get a little bit less sleep that week as he keeps trying to solve the Pavia puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>One of the more interesting narratives headed into SEC Media Days is the fact that both Diego Pavia and Hugh Freeze were going to be <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/diego-pavia-addresses-success-over-hugh-freeze-auburn-at-sec-media-days\/\" title=\"Diego Pavia Addresses Success Over Hugh Freeze, Auburn at SEC Media Days\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1124061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,145,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1172705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tigers-plains-war-eagle","8":"category-auburn","9":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/168241026025_aub_at_uk.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172706,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172705\/revisions\/1172706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}