The newly ranked Ole Miss Rebels play host to Missouri Saturday night in a game that will have a great deal of bearing on what bowl game invites the Rebels. Las Vegas oddsmakers have installed Missouri as a 3-point favorite at Oxford, which surprises me. Frankly I think the Rebels, who are gaining yards and […]
(From Rick Cleveland: My ol’ pal Joe Rogers, formerly columnist for The Clarion-Ledger and now an editor at the New York TImes, recently challenged me to duel of words about the New Orleans Saints for the column he writes for the Ledger’s website. Naturally, I took him up on it. What follows is Joe’s column.) […]
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State, a whopping 26-point underdog to top-ranked Alabama, achieved the most necessary ingredient for a monumental upset. The Bulldogs won the turnover battle 4-1. To win against such huge odds, you have to be plus-2 or more, and State was plus-3. The other ingredients weren’t there. You can’t waste scoring opportunities, especially […]
The date was Oct. 31, 1980, and into the wee and then not-so-wee hours of Nov. 1, same year. We’re talking 33 years and 14 days ago, so I am thinking the statute of limitations is up. Besides, I don’t work for The Clarion-Ledger any more. They can’t fire me. No. 1-ranked Alabama was in […]
Author’s note: Had a wonderful lunch today at Adobo, on the first floor of the renovated Standard Life Building. (I highly recommend the Vietnamese sandwich.) Everyone I talked to at the Standard Life Building was surprised to learn the first centralized office of the Southeastern Conference was housed in the 13th floor of that building. […]
Author’s note: About this time of year, every year, someone asks if I’ll reprint the column I wrote eight years ago on the 25-year anniversary of Mississippi State’s landmark victory over Alabama and Bear Bryant. Frankly, I always like to re-read it myself, because it brings back so many memories of so many splendid players […]
Drum roll please: For the past three weeks, your fearless forecaster has picked 26 games correctly and only four incorrectly. That’s 86.7 percent and that’s a winning percentage only Nick Saban could fume about. And he would. You know he would. For the season, I am now 82-27 for 75.7 percent, right in there with […]
Ole Miss junior quarterback Bo Wallace, the 2012 C Spire Conerly Trophy winner, continues to put up huge numbers in 2013. His 416 yards passing and 428 yards of total offense in last Saturday’s 34-24 victory over Arkansas both rank as the second-best single-game performance in Ole Miss football history. Wallace has moved into fifth […]
