-- Four days into Auburn's spring practices, the Tigers are working mostly on base schemes on both offense and defense, setting a foundation.

Auburn begins most practices with its "pace drills," a quick full-team drill designed to get the offense up and running at the pace

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wants -- as fast as possible -- before the rest of practice.

Now that the team is in full pads, that means 11-on-11 work, and Auburn pitted its first, second and third teams against each other in a pace drill before the end of the open media viewing period.