BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A spokesman for Auburn University President Jay Gogue said there is no set deadline for school Athletics Director Jay Jacobs to have to Gogue a recommendation regarding the fate of head football coach Gene Chizik.

However, spokesman Brian Keeter said the anticipation is that Jacobs recommendation will come quickly.

"There is no set deadline but it's expected within a few days," Keeter said in an email Saturday.

Gogue has said for weeks that he would wait to hear a recommendation from Jacobs regarding Chizik's future at Auburn once the season ended.

The season ended Saturday with Auburn losing in a rout to rival Alabama 49-0. The bitter defeat concluded a season that saw the tigers - only two years removed from a national championship - end with just three wins and nine loses, the worse season for Auburn football in six decades.

Chizik in a post-game press conference with reporters after the Alabama game refused to address his future as AU's head coach.

"I'm not going to go into all of the job situation with any questions. This isn't about me," Chizik told the media.

Sources close to the Auburn situation said late Saturday that any chance Chizik had to keep his job likely died with humiliating defeats to Auburn's two most bitter rivals - Georgia two weeks ago and Alabama on Saturday.

Both universities shut the tigers out and beat them by a combined score of 87-0.