I'll get a more complete summary of the day's events up a little later. Here's tomorrow's lede in the interim.

AUBURN, Ala. — With an odd mixture of backups and walk-ons making up Auburn’s defensive ranks at A-Day Saturday, the offense finally had its day in the sun.

The Tigers’ offense cruised to a lopsided yet somewhat misleading 57-31 victory before an announced crowd of 45,381 at Jordan-Hare Stadium, rolling up 501 yards and providing a number of highlight-worthy plays against the second- and sometimes third-team defense at the annual scrimmage.

“I know the defense is a banged up a little bit and they didn’t have all their guys so they weren’t playing at full capacity,” junior quarterback Neil Caudle said, “but it’s a big confidence booster for us to be out there and put up 50 points.”

While fans wanting to see Auburn’s first-team units square off against each other didn’t get their wish, they were treated to plenty of big plays.

Running back Ben Tate, the offensive MVP, scored the first of his two touchdowns on the opening drive, going for 46 yards up the middle.

Wideout Terrell Zachery and running back Onterio McCalebb were barely touched on 70-yard touchdown runs, a positive sign for an Auburn offense in need of play-makers, even if it didn’t come against a first-team defense that from all accounts had controlled the first few scrimmages of the spring.

In all, the offense had six plays that went for 30 or more yards, four of which went for touchdowns.

“It doesn’t matter who you go against,” Tate said. “It’s all a matter of executing and doing the right things. That’s what we came out and did today."