The Auburn Tigers earned what was the biggest win so far of the Hugh Freeze era during the first week of the season last Friday against the Baylor Bears, and they did with a running game that was absolutely dominant and a quarterback who proved to be a major threat with his legs.

As Jackson Arnold ran his way into the end zone twice and the Tigers finished with over 300 yards on the ground as a team, it became apparent that this team’s bread and butter will be running the football.

If there is one criticism though from the game, it’s the fact that Arnold did not find a ton of success through the air. In all fairness, he did not really have to and Auburn just kept on running the ball with success — clearly a sound strategy. Moving forward though when the schedule gets real and SEC opponents are on the slate, the offense will have to be a bit more balanced.

It seems Tigers players are not phased though, and while addressing how effective the run game was on Friday night, Tigers wide receiver Horatio Fields emphasized that even if it’s not ending in catches for him and the group of receivers, this offense will do what it needs to do in order to win.

“We try to be an efficient scoring machine. That’s on the ground. That’s in the air,” Fields said when asked if he was surprised at how well the ball was ran against Baylor. “So we just make sure that even with the running game, we block the perimeter just to make it easier so they can get to the second and third level.”

Clearly, this is a group of wide receivers that just wants to win, whether that means them leading the way on offense or not. It’s a very green flag for a team under some serious pressure to perform offensively this year that they are led by a group of unselfish stars.