AUBURN, Alabama — For Anders Carlson, Saturday's A-Day scrimmage was nothing more than a practice.

Well, a scrimmage is more like a practice than an actual game, of course, but Auburn's new kicker wants you to know getting nervous in front of large crowds is not an issue for him.

"Every rep is a game rep for me," said Carlson, "but it was good to knock them down in front of the fans."

Carlson certainly looked ready to take over for his big brother, Daniel, who exited Auburn as the SEC's career-leading scorer while also owning several school records. Anders Carlson drilled three field goals of 38, 41 and 53 yards in the first team's 18-10 victory Saturday in front of 28,033 fans inside Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Unsurprisingly, he was named the A-Day special teams MVP.

"He's done that all spring, too," coach Gus Malzahn said. "That was very encouraging to see him out there kicking the way he has been up to this point in front of a crowd."

Field goals were not live, meaning there was no rush on the kicker or the snapper. Simply put, long snapper Bill Taylor could relax and take his time on the snaps. Still, the conditions were not perfect Saturday. Rain soaked the field Friday night through the start of the scrimmage and temperatures dropped into the 50s as the wind started swirling inside the stadium.

“It was gusting a little bit but I was staying smooth with my holder and snapper on the sideline," Anders Carlson said.

Auburn hasn't had to worry about its kicker during the entirety of Malzahn's tenure as head coach. Daniel Carlson was a three-time Lou Groza Award finalist, and his replacement certainly seems capable of doing the family proud back home in Colorado, where Anders Carlson was rated the nation's No. 1 kicker out of The Classical Academy in Pike National Forest, according to the 247Sports Composite.

Anders Carlson drilled a 62-yard field goal in the second-to-last scrimmage of the spring on March 31. Onlookers said it had enough velocity, the ball would have been above the crossbar from 70 yards.

“Personally, I feel comfortable right now but we just got to keep working every day," Anders Carlson said. "As a group I feel like we are ready right now.”

The redshirt freshman will get his first opportunity to prove himself in perfect conditions: indoors at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sept. 1. The Tigers open the season against Washington in Atlanta.

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