When Auburn's Daniel Carlson and Alabama's JK Scott arrived in Mobile this week for the Senior Bowl, the two specialists quickly realized they have more in common than they thought.

Both are among the best at their position -- kicker and punter, respectively -- in college football, sure. Both are from Colorado, which they already knew, and both have been staples of the Iron Bowl rivalry for the last four years.

Carlson and Scott, each learned this week, will also be sharing a wedding anniversary. The two each got engaged last year -- Carlson in July before SEC Media Day and Scott in December after the regular season ended -- and both married their now-wives on Jan. 13 after their college careers came to an end.

"We met each other at the College Football Awards Show thing and it was funny, because he just recently had gotten engaged and we had been engaged and doing the wedding planning process, so we kind of talked about 'good luck with the wedding planning, blah, blah, blah,'" Carlson said. "Then we showed up here (in Mobile) and I was like, 'dang, you got a ring on your finger, what happened?'"

While the shared experience has been a topic of conversation for the two, who have known each other in passing since high school, their mutual focus this week has been on leaving a good impression for NFL teams in attendance for the Senior Bowl -- and making sure the two rivals can work in harmony. See, this year's South team for the Senior Bowl has a decidedly ferric flavor on special teams.

While Carlson is handling all kicking duties, Scott is punting and doubling as the South squad's holder on extra points and field goals, with Auburn's Ike Powell serving as long snapper. That gives the team an all-Iron Bowl battery on kick attempts.

"It's working well," Scott said. "Like I said before, we haven't even really talked about the whole rivalry. We've just been getting to know each other as people. Ike, he's a good snapper, so we've already kind of got a little bit of a rhythm in the snap-hold."

Our highest graded kicker on field goals and extra points in 2017, @AuburnFootball K Daniel Carlson was good from 58 yards (with room to spare) at #SeniorBowl practice yesterday pic.twitter.com/wPens4waMV — Pro Football Focus (@PFF) January 25, 2018

It's a bit of a different feel for Powell and Carlson this week. While the two have worked together throughout their Auburn careers, they've also grown accustomed to Tyler Stovall serving as the holder on all kicks. Powell said it takes some getting used to after working exclusively with Stovall throughout college, because different holders have different cadences and rhythms.

"He's no Tyler Stovall, I'll say that," Carlson joked, "but he's doing a really good job."

Good enough for Carlson to drill a 58-yard field goal attempt -- with room to spare -- during Wednesday's practice on a cool, windy day at Ladd Peebles Stadium.

The 58-yard field goal was 2 yards beyond his career-long of 56 yards at Auburn, which he made during the Tigers' 2015 season opener against Louisville in the Georgia Dome.

"I told them to back it up 5 yards," Carlson said. "(The coach was) like usually they go back to 52, 53 tops, but I was like, 'let me show off a little bit,' and so he called a penalty on us and we backed it up 5 yards on that last one just to have a little fun. It was a good one."

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.