During Monday night’s Tiger Talk radio show, Auburn head football coach Hugh Freeze took a question from a fan named Bobby, who was curious to learn how Freeze planned to tackle recruiting given the Tigers’ five-game homestand to start the 2024 season.

“Show them a good product,” Freeze first answered. “And they see that with the Auburn fans.”

Since Saturday’s season-opener against Alabama A&M, Freeze has raved about the support from Auburn’s student section and fan base as a whole.

The good news is Freeze says he had a “really good group” of recruits to take it all in on Saturday.

One of those players was four-star quarterback target Deuce Knight, who Freeze and the Tigers are working relentlessly to flip from Notre Dame.

And while adding to and improving Auburn’s 2025 recruiting class is certainly important, keeping its current commits in the boat is equally — if not more — important.

“(I) met with all of our commits at one time, just trying to hold all that together because I really believe we’re knocking on the door of having a top-three, if not top-five class, for sure,” Freeze said. “We just gotta finish it.”

Auburn’s 2025 recruiting class is currently ranked No. 5 in the country, according to 247Sports, and stands 23 commitments strong.

And coming on the heels of Auburn’s eighth-ranked 2024 class, keeping the Tigers’ current class together and finishing the deal on signing day is imperative to what Freeze believes is the recipe to Auburn football’s success.

“I tell all the recruits and their parents all the time, it’s not like Kentucky Fried Chicken where they hide the recipe. The recipe is pretty simple for playing for the SEC Championship game and getting to the playoffs,” Freeze said in his recruiting rant during Monday’s Tiger Talk.

“If you look at the teams that have done it, they’ve stacked three to four to five top-five classes in a row. That is the recipe and there’s no hiding that.”

Freeze went on to say that of the last 12 national championship-winning football programs, only one had an average recruiting class outside the top-eight.

That distinction goes to last year’s national champion in the Michigan Wolverines.

“The others, they’ve all had top-five classes and we’ve had one,” Freeze said. “And that doesn’t mean we can’t beat people this year, but it’s still not equal yet. You give us one, two more classes that are top-five range, then your roster is looking like the ones who have been playing for the championship.”