Auburn's Ben Aigamaua named top-50 TE coach in college football

The Tigers should have one of the better tight end rooms in the SEC underneath the new coaching staff's guidance.

Ben Aigamaua, Auburn's new tight ends coach that was hired by Hugh Freeze this offseason, has been putting in the work on the recruiting trail, having already landed Martavious Collins for the Tigers' 2024 class.

He's got a proven track record and has had a handful of very solid pass-catchers play underneath his tutelage.

Big Game Boomer, a college football social media influencer, has released a graphic including his top 50 tight ends coaches in college football. Auburn's Aigamaua is ranked No. 35 nationally. That puts him at No. 8 in the SEC.

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Aigamaua comes to Auburn with 13 years of experience at the collegiate level, including seven years at Ole Miss, and spent the last four seasons as tight ends coach at Liberty.

Under Aigamaua’s leadership in 2022, Liberty saw three different tight ends haul in a touchdown pass and the group accounted for 236 yards on 27 receptions.

In four seasons, Aigamaua’s tight end group hauled in a collective 109 receptions for 1,267 yards and 20 touchdowns while Liberty finished top 25 in the country in total offense on a pair of occasions. The Flames finished the 2020 season with a 10-1 record and ranked No. 17 in the final Associated Press poll, its highest end-of-year ranking in program history.

Individually, a pair of Aigamaua’s tight ends earned accolades as Johnny Huntley was named to the Phil Steele FBS Independent All-Conference Team in 2020 and 2021, and Michael Bollinger was named to the 2022 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.

Prior to his time at Liberty, Aigamaua served as a graduate assistant, offensive analyst and assistant athletic director of community relations at Ole Miss from 2012-18, the first five seasons with Freeze as the head coach. The Rebels were ranked as high as No. 3 in the country on a pair of occasions and finished top 10 in the final polls for the first time in nearly 50 years. The team finished top 25 in the country in total offense five times during the seven-year span.

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