Coming off a total collapse at LSU last weekend, the Auburn Tigers did exactly what they set out to do in Fayetteville on Saturday night, trouncing Arkansas 52-20.

For coach Gus Malzahn, it was a much needed victory to take some of the heat off himself after his Tigers blew a 20-0 lead in Baton Rouge. The Tigers are now 6-2 overall and are still alive in the SEC West race at 4-1.

However, just because the Tigers won big Saturday doesn't mean it was a clean game, as Auburn still has plenty to work on moving forward.

With games still remaining against Texas A&M, Georgia and Alabama in the next few weeks, Malzahn and his staff need to make a few changes and shore up a few areas.

Here are three big things that Auburn needs to fix:

The defense is susceptible to big plays

The Tigers played well on defense, holding the Razorbacks to 20 points (seven of which came on a kickoff return).

However, Auburn still allowed 10 plays of 15 yards or more. Against a team like Arkansas, that's worrisome, as there are squads with better offenses remaining on the Tigers' schedule.

If defensive coordinator Kevin Steele can't shore up the holes, Georgia and Alabama are going to torch the Tigers.

The kick coverage team needs to be better

Fortunately, the Tigers have Daniel Carlson as their kicker, otherwise kickoff coverage might be an even bigger problem.

The Razorbacks only attempted one kickoff return, and De'Vion Warren went 100 yards for a touchdown.

Carlson can't kick every ball out of the back of the end zone, so at some point, the Tigers are going to need to make some tackles on kickoffs against some talented returners.

The lapse didn't hurt the Tigers on Saturday night, but it did take some of the shine off of the preceding Auburn touchdown, which came on an incredible reverse pass by WR Ryan Davis to WR Darius Slayton.

Chip Lindsey's play calling is still too predictable

Though first-year offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey had a better effort against the Razorbacks than he did against LSU last week, his play-calling still left a lot to be desired.

After running it 17 straight times on first downs in the second half of last week's loss, Lindsey did an incredibly predictable thing by throwing it on Auburn's first play of the Arkansas game (an incompletion, naturally).

Even when things were working against the hopeless Arkansas defense, they weren't working because of the defenders being fooled — Auburn is just better than Arkansas.

Other than the trick play mentioned above, the Tigers' offense wasn't exactly creative in Fayetteville.

Down near the goal line late in the first half, Lindsey dialed up a couple of runs for star RB Kerryon Johnson — which is normally a good idea. However, having Johnson plunge straight into the heart of the Arkansas defense twice in a row is the sort of unimaginative play-calling that's going to hurt the Tigers down the stretch.