"It's an open battle," said Chizik, who is heading into his fourth season in Auburn. "We're no stranger to this. This is the fourth year in a row now where we've had a great quarterback competition going into the season and this will be another one.Carl Weathers: Come on, he's Apollo Creed! And he was in "Predator." Weathers started out as a star linebacker at San Diego State University before going on to an extremely brief pro career with the Oakland Raiders in the early '70s. After a couple years in the Canadian Football League with the BC Lions, Weathers retired to pursue acting fulltime in 1974. His most important role has been as Rocky Balboa's nemesis and eventual friend in the first four "Rocky" movies; the character died in "Rocky IV." His first crack at playing the lead, 1988's "Action Jackson," didn't go so well.

Ernest Wallace of Bristol, Conn., center, an associate of former New England Patriots player Aaro