10 things on my mind as Auburn starts first fall camp under Hugh Freeze

AUBURN -- For Auburn football, it finally feels like the Hugh Freeze era has arrived. Within the past few weeks, the Auburn athletic department announced the largest season ticket sell out in program history, Freeze and Co. flipped 5-star Demarcus Riddick from Georgia and 5-star Perry Thompson from Alabama, and on Thursday, fall camp begins. Recent recruiting events have Auburn entering August with the fourth-highest average rating per commit nationally behind only Ohio State, Alabama and Georgia. In today's college football, that's the best company. Those three programs, plus Florida State, Florida and Clemson, along with Auburn, are the only programs with a 5-star commitment to date. Again, fantastic company for an Auburn program looking to get up off the mat from two years of wandering in the wilderness under the leadership of Bryan Harsin. That's all great, but you know what must follow. At the end of the day, on-the-field success is all that matters. After a spring camp where Freeze and Co. were simply trying to stay afloat, learn names, instill the basics, all while continuing to recruit the transfer portal, fall camp is a different story. It's go time. The roster is basically set, recruiting is in a dead period, and the Tigers have four weeks of preparation until it's UMass game week. So, having said that, here's a list of things on my mind as the most anticipated football season since maybe 2014 is only weeks away.