OXFORD — For Ole Miss, the so-called Red Zone was more like the Twilight Zone. Against No. 9 Missouri Saturday night, the Rebels made three trips inside the Missouri 20 and scored just three points. That will get you beat against most anybody, and especially against a Top 10 team that was in the process […]
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 […]
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 […]
