How will Auburn’s A-Day be formatted and what’s Hugh Freeze hoping to see from the Tigers?

For weeks, the Woltosz Football Performance Center has been home to Auburn’s spring football prep.

On Saturday, the Tigers will finally put a product on the field during Auburn’s A-Day spring game.

And similar to last year’s format, Auburn’s defense will start the game with a 27-0 lead, and it’ll be up to Auburn’s offense to try and catch up.

“I’ll vary the field positions and see what happens. See if the offense can overtake the defense at 27-0,” Freeze said in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. “Obviously if the defense were to have a pick-six or a blocked field goal for a return, they would add to that. Barring they don’t do that it’s 27-0 and see if the offense can score 28 in the time allowed.”

Last season, Auburn’s defense started with a 24-point lead and the game ended in a 24-24 tie.

Freeze added the game will likely consist of four 10-minute periods.

“We’ll see how that goes with TV time and how the game is going. I’m sure we’ll stop it some,” Freeze said. “I think it’s probably going to be four 10-minute and stop it maybe the last two minutes of each quarter and play it like normal. That’s kind of up in the air.”

Last year, Auburn’s A-Day spring game — the first of Hugh Freeze’s tenure — was impacted by cold and rainy conditions.

Freeze is hoping that isn’t the case Saturday.

“Number one, you hope for great weather for the fans and they can enjoy getting on campus and being around each other,” Freeze said when asked what he hopes to see out of Saturday’s game.

As of Tuesday, it’s forecasted that Saturday be a cloudy day with a high of 64 degrees.

Meanwhile, rain or shine, Freeze is hoping to see that the Tigers appear clean in their operations.

“You don’t want to see flags all over the field. That would irritate me. You want to play clean and you want to execute fairly well on both sides,” Freeze said. “You don’t want to go out there at 27-0 and the offense doesn’t get a first down the whole day. That would be discouraging.”

Of course, Freeze also wants to see his team get to the other side of the spring game and still be in good health.

“It’s typically a day you try to get out of healthy and don’t show too much on either side and play a lot of these young kids,” Freeze said.

As of Tuesday, aside from a “beat up” wide receiver room, Freeze says the Tigers are relatively healthy.

And in an effort to keep it that way, some players might see limited action on Saturday.

“It’s right for everybody at Auburn, so we’re going to make the best of it and go compete. I think our kids will do that and do it passionately,” Freeze said. “Now, are there guys that I will limit their snaps? Probably so. Guys that you know about and know what they can do? I’ll limit some of those guys.”

Auburn’s A-Day spring game will kick off on Saturday at 1 p.m. from Jordan-Hare Stadium. Tickets for Saturday’s game are $10 and available for purchase at AuburnTigers.com.