A-Day Auburn Spring Football 2026

Auburn's Spring football game came and went in a blink of an eye. If you are unfamiliar with college football, (almost) every school plays a Spring game, which is basically a scrimmage game of offense vs defense or some variation of this.

I was trying to think back to how many Spring games I have been to over the years and I really couldn't figure that out, it's been a lot. I went back and took a look at the website for previous A-Day Games posts, and there are some interesting ones in there dating back to 2009. My favorite (that I actually posted about) was in 2024 when I decided to take a roll of film that day. I shot a roll of Portra 400 and then posted the entire roll of film at A-Day Auburn Spring Football 2024 good, bad, or ugly, without editing, straight from the developer. Some of those shots are my favorite and ended up in my book on Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Spring A-Day games are generally not the most exciting game day experience of the sports season, but it still has it's own traditions and kind of kicks off summer in these parts. This year was actually a way better experience than in the most recent years.

Alex Golesh's Debut

This was our first look at Alex Golesh's team. It did include an offense vs. defense format, but more importantly, for the fans, it was actually a format for the Spring game that went back to what we use to do years ago, say pre-2020. We played an actual full 4-quarter scrimmage, and the guys looked locked in and committed. Not polished, but focused.

In previous years we have had a very laxidasical approach to this game. We really almost just needed to cancel it. It either rained, or it was freezing cold (or both), or the coach decided we weren't going to play (after everyone got there), or the format was unknown and it just looked like chaos walking around on the field, or there was a national pandemic happening, and all kinds of other things. But this year, it was warm, sunny, focused, lasted longer than 30 minutes, and felt like an Auburn experience.

The improvements this year were great, the only thing I would love to see is for us to play an actual game against an actual team like Troy from down the road. But nobody wants to see anyone get hurt in a Spring game, so that seems unlikely at this given point in NIL history.

Additional Game Notes

• Coverage: Here’s everything that happened during Auburn’s 2026 A-Day Spring Game
• Scoring Notes: the scoring in this game was so complicated but the offense ended up getting the best of the defense on this day.

Game Photos

I did not take in a camera this time other than my iPhone, so I was stuck doing some photography on the phone, but when you have no other options, the iPhone makes for a great camera if it is the only one you have with you.

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