Auburn's A-Day scrimmage, which starts at 2 p.m. ET Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium, won’t necessarily be a straight-up game.

The Tigers will split into blue and white squads for the first half, but the second half will be offense vs. defense, with one quarter’s worth of offensive points going to the blue team’s score and one quarter’s worth going to the white team.

"We had to kind of mix and match a little bit there," Auburn head coach Gene Chizik said. "I think we've got the teams matched evenly enough now with who's going against who where we can make a game of it. Really, that was the idea but we had to strategically plan how we're going to do this."

The scrimmage will consist of four 12-minute quarters, with a running clock in the second half.

Auburn will use all four of its quarterbacks -- Cam Newton, Neil Caudle, Barrett Trotter and Clint Moseley -- in different situations.

"We're going to rotate them not necessarily with certain quarterbacks with certain teams," Chizik said. "We'll move them around and they're really going to be kind of the only guys we don't have a set plan for who they go with. We'll mix and match those guys as we see fit at the end of the day."

Chizik wasn't sure how much 1's vs. 1's would go on during A-Day. It depends on how beat up guys are, he said.

“We’re trying to get some competition and have fun and make it a blue-white game to the best of our ability,” Chizik said, “but because of depth issues we won’t be able to do that.”

Some other news and notes:

• Quarterbacks won't be live in the scrimmage, although that won't stop some playful jawing between the defense and the quarterbacks, especially Newton, who's a big boy at 6-foot-6, 247 pounds. "We talk trash, he talks trash," defensive tackle Mike Blanc said. "He said: 'Y'all are lucky we're not going live.' I'm like: 'You're lucky we're not going live.' You know we're not going to get that chance."

• Blanc likes Newton's attitude. "I like somebody being confident in what they're doing," he said. "It's like me. I'm going to be very confident at my position. I feel like I can do it better than the next person. That's good -- especially at quarterback. He's the leader of the team. You want to see that confidence."

• As written earlier, Auburn won't make a decision on its quarterback situation until after the spring at the earliest. Chizik said not to read too much into what happens tomorrow: “This is kind of another practice. Obviously, it is more game-type situation, which is good, but I wouldn’t read in too much whether one of them does great and one of them doesn’t do as well. ... We’re trying to look for consistency over all through 15 days and really that’s more of what our decision will be based off of.”

• Monday's practice -- the last of the spring -- won't be a scrimmage. Chizik said it will be more of a teaching day to wrap up the spring.

• Auburn called T’Sharvan Bell’s number during the Outback Bowl out of necessity. The Tigers were low on corners and Northwestern wouldn’t stop throwing the ball. Bell responded with two interceptions, his best game to date, and has used that as a springboard this spring. “(He) has really made a definitive jump in how he’s performed,” Chizik said. Bell is one of several cornerbacks competing to make the playing rotation behind starters Demond Washington and Neiko Thorpe, vying for time with backups Anthony Gulley-Morgan and D’Antoine Hood.

• A 6-foot, 179-pound sophomore from Kissimmee, Fla., Bell redshirted in 2008 before finding playing time hard to come by last year as he shuttled between corner and safety. Since settling in at corner this offseason, he’s made strides. “His light has come on,” cornerbacks coach Phillip Lolley said. “And different guys do it at different stages, but T-Bell is right on course. He’s really made a lot of strides this spring and looks like he’s going to be a heck of a football player.”

• Lolley seemed extremely pleased about Washington this spring. "Mentally right now, he is really catching on to what the game is about, what offenses are trying to do," Lolley said. "He's understanding offensive sets. He's understanding leverage. Demond works very hard. He's been a great leader this spring. Demond is gifted. He's got a lot of speed, you know. But he's taken his game to where his speed can play apart. Sometimes you can be fast, but if you don't understand the game you can play slow. But right now, he's taking that speed and he's playing fast with it and understanding reads quicker. I've been very,very excited about him this spring."