Ole Miss Rebels vs. LSU Tigers

Sure, Arkansas wasn’t going to catch Alabama in the conference standings, but a 9-1 record would have put them in contention for a College Football Playoff seed or, at the very least, participate in a New Year’s Six Bowl.

Bielema in his own right is a unique character, truly the Trump of college football, with a mouth not necessarily befitting his personal success versus failures, but a person no less willing to be loud, proud, and capable of putting on the earmuffs to any dissenters.

“It’s time to step up”, said Miles, who saw the game close up. “I think the weariness is the finish of the game”. CBS and ESPN’s networks passed on that game Monday. Two of which blew the game open, and one of them slammed the door shut. “So I think that the understanding of that and the ability to step forward and say, ‘I’m accountable. That negative piece that needs to be fixed”.

Ole Miss is 5-2 against the spread in their last seven home games, 11-5 against the spread following a loss, and 1-4 against the spread in their last five SEC games. Fournette wasn’t bad at all, rumbling for 91 mostly violent yards.

LSU fans watching at home can be forgiven if they thought they had stumbled on a re-run of last week’s crushing loss to Alabama. Since then, only Alabama has defeated the Razorbacks, who have won four consecutive games including back-to-back wins against ranked SEC West opponents.

Arkansas celebrates after a decisive win over LSU. “As a team we just all need to back on track and get back to what got us here”.

On paper, it’s a better matchup for a Rebel defense that’s struggled much more to keep teams from moving the ball through the air than on the ground. We don’t really feel like it’s a crisis. “I can guarantee it won’t be the same deal this year”, White said. But even zero more wins would see the Razorbacks playing somewhere beyond Thanksgiving weekend. The Arkansas defense walked into Baton Rouge, the place where “dreams go to die”, and created nightmares for the Tigers in the backfield. Ole Miss (AP: 25, Coaches: 24) and Mississippi State (Coaches: 25) were the other SEC teams to make the polls. Where do we go from here? “Maybe, you just never can tell, we’ll move a tackle around”.

To the rest of the world, Arkansas and OR were dead to rights two months ago, early in the season, getting flogged out of conference and unable to turn it around in the SEC and Pac-12, respectively.

Miles did praise the play of Clapp and starting true freshman left guard Maea Teuhema.

Memphis grabbed a 3-0 lead after one – it was just the third time Houston had been blanked in a quarter this season, and first time outside of a fourth quarter blowout – and pushed the lead to 20-0 with a pair of Paxton Lynch touchdown passes when Herman replaced a gimpy, ineffective Greg Ward, Jr., with the little-used Postma on the Cougars’ final drive before the half.

“Every play it was somebody”, Alexander said. The Tigers still have to play Tennessee and Arkansas and are only 150 yards ahead of Fatony’s total, so I’m holding out hope. I had that big penalty early in the game.