Ole Miss vs. Missouri Prediction: Rebels Cover at Home

Let me bring our Missouri Ole Miss game into the fold. A tricky one here today. A number that is moving towards Mizzou. I'm seeing right now, and let me try and get a couple of numbers for this game. I'm seeing fours start to appear. Four and a half, still five and a half out there, but a number working a little bit towards the Tigers. I know this one's going to hit your card here. What do you like? I'm looking at Ole Miss. It's been a great ride for Missouri, and we talked about it a little while ago with Kentucky. Missouri knocked off Florida. They knocked off A&M. They lost late to Mississippi State in the Camarillo game. This is a fourth straight big-time SEC opponent, and at some point, Missouri is not going to play a perfect game like they did against Florida, like they did against A&M. Those games were at home. Now they hit the road to Oxford. Ole Miss has not played at home since beating LSU last month. They've been on the road or had a bye. The Rebels rebounded from Florida loss by blowing out Vandy last week throwing up 52 in Nashville you know it's Vandy but they still scored 52, Kwan Lacy came in he was able to get a couple of carries off the bye seven carries in a touchdown i think he's rested the Ole Miss offense is rested you got Trinidad Chambliss champing at the bit no one Simmons is on the other side keep in mind Missouri's defense is 114th in the country in explosive plays allowed this is what Ole Miss does They're an explosive team. They even did that against Florida in the loss. Rebels, just like LSU, can't afford a loss here. Now, neither can Missouri, but if you told me before the season I was going to be able to get Ole Miss minus five versus Missouri, I would like it then, and I even like it now more that Missouri has a few good wins on their belt. Remember, they lost the only SEC road game they played. They lost that one at Mississippi State. This isn't Oxford. I think Ole Miss takes care of business today, and I think they win by double digits. I think it's absolutely on the cards. I would lean, I think, Ole Miss' direction with you. I am so excited to see what we get from these quarterbacks. Missouri early season, the run defenses looked very good. Ole Miss is at their best throwing the football, but that might also have to do with Kewan Lacey missing time. And Lacey is back. He played against Vanderbilt. He also only carried the ball seven times because it was his first game back. And also, I mean, I don't know, you could argue it was seven carries too many. They beat Vanderbilt so bad. Why bother? You know, I think Trinidad, Trinidad Chambliss, though, is very interesting how this stuff works because they play, you know, the marquee Sunday game against Louisville and he throws for, you know, he ends up with four total touchdowns and almost 400 yards of offense. Then you get the incredible LSU game where, again, it's just, the guys the Heisman trophy favorite it's all him it's all him and even in the Florida game like I remember you know you know myself and Dave and our crew will talk throughout the slate and even though Florida like felt in control it was like we can't stop this kid like it like he's just it just keeps you know it just keeps coming and I think that's what's going to be really fascinating here for Mizzou is you mentioned the game that they lost it was this you know kind of track meet shootout with Miss State and they at the end of it could not just keep up uh in the way that was required of them i'm so excited to see how these quarterbacks look because and just to you know draft wise there's hype around both guys the chambliss hype is maybe pulled back a little bit the simmons stuff is is on the rise here you know which quarterback do you trust more and i'm sure that's part of you know backing Ole Miss because for most people the answer is trinidad It is, and even in that loss to Florida, as you mentioned, Trinidad was amazing in the second half. And Ole Miss might win that game if Ole Miss threw any defense whatsoever against Florida in the second half because they weren't stopping Trinidad. I think this is just a spot. You mentioned Lacey. I mentioned Lacey. They're easing him back in. I think that was smart to only give him seven carries. They crushed Vandy in a walkover game. I think at some point the wheels are going to fall off for Missouri. Is it this week? I think this is a tough matchup for them.