Ole Miss vs. Oklahoma: A Pivotal College Football Clash

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00:00And the one team that could have a stamp on that is Ole Miss.

00:02The question is, are they going to stamp their future HUD coach in Ole Miss and Oxford?

00:08Are they going to stamp him down to Gainesville, Joe?

00:11Come on now.

00:11I tell you, I mean, isn't he playing a little bit with house money?

00:14If you're Lane, he's got bargaining power right now.

00:18He goes in.

00:19He wins this game.

00:20He's going to be leveraged just the way Signetti was in asking for an extension or whatever he wants,

00:26potentially, in Oxford.

00:27He loses.

00:28He still has a fail safe to go to Gainesville because they know he's the number one candidate on the list.

00:34I think when you look at this matchup and when you look at the game last week, you and I both like Georgia.

00:38I didn't think that they were going to tack on 35-plus points, have a first-half lead at 21-16

00:43and basically blow it in the final two minutes, and that's exactly what Ole Miss did.

00:48This game is interesting because you have an explosive offense going up against one of the best defenses

00:53in the conference and in all of college football in Oklahoma.

00:56When you look at the front seven for Ole Miss right now, they're giving up 166 rushing yards per game.

01:03They allowed Georgia to pound the rock for 221 and basically almost five yards per carry in that victory.

01:10That's what Oklahoma's going to look to do.

01:12They rushed and pounded the rock for $1.71 against South Carolina.

01:16That was a physical game.

01:17They built the first-half lead, 14-0.

01:20This defense held on, and they have the veteran quarterback, Mateer, over Trinidad Chambliss,

01:24even though Chambliss played well.

01:26I lean to Oklahoma simply because they're undefeated at home this year, 4-0.

01:31They've won those games by an average margin of victory against FCS and FBS opponents by 23.2 points per game.

01:39I believe in the physicality of the defense, and I think that's where this game is won or lost.

01:43We saw 5-and-a-halves yesterday.

01:45Yeah.

01:45Seeing more 4-and-a-halves right now still lay it with the soonest.

01:49Yeah, just look at the FanDuel's opening line, Joe, for this game with Ole Miss and Oklahoma.

01:52It opened up at minus 3-and-a-half, and then we see that move here, 4-and-a-halves.

01:55There are some outlets, Bet365, and some outlets in Las Vegas that are listed at minus 5s,

01:59and the total up from 50-and-a-half is that opening number to 52-and-a-half here.

02:03Talk to me, Joe, about Oklahoma.

02:05Mateer before injury.

02:06Oh, my goodness, offense looks incredibly good here.

02:09They should be able to maybe win this conference, and or he can win the Heisman Trophy.

02:13Comes back, maybe rushed it a little bit.

02:15What are the options for Mateer today?

02:16Do we see what we expected to see from the beginning of the year, or we're still working our way back here?

02:21No, I think he's more in a rhythm than what he was a couple of weeks ago,

02:25and I think, actually, Brad Venables and that staff sort of did a disservice against Mateer and the team

02:32by starting him against Texas, and I'll just tell you why.

02:34If they would have went with Michael Hawkins, Donnie, right, and started the game,

02:38even if, let's say, they were trailing in the fourth quarter,

02:41they could have brought in Mateer in an emergency situation and said, you know what, we'll try to pull it out.

02:46If they would have lost that game the way they did, right, with Hawkins,

02:50they have a flyer to tell the committee, hey, we lost one game, our starting quarterback was out.

02:55They would have gotten the benefit of the doubt, and you still would have arrested John Mateer for an extra week.

02:59They rushed him back.

03:00He didn't perform well.

03:02You saw more about what he was involved last week.

03:04It was more consistent with the passing game.

03:07He looked like he was on, could take hits.

03:09I think now he's 100% healthy, but it's going to come down to the physicality of the offense and defense alliance.

03:15The fact that there was rain in the forecast, I think, benefits Oklahoma more than it benefits Ole Miss.

03:21Ole Miss more of a finesse offense.

03:23I still think Blaylock and that rushing attack for Oklahoma can get right, run it between the tackles,

03:29and even Mateer being the veteran, I think that's where the difference holds,

03:33and that's why I would lay the four and a half in this ballgame.

03:35Yeah, I'm feeling Ole Miss a little bit in this game, too, because you do take a look at the quarterback position,

03:38and Mateer, again, was on that trajectory of if he could possibly win the Heisman.

03:41Look at his statistics show, and again, he did miss some time.

03:431,500 passing yards here, seven touchdowns with six interceptions here on the ground.

03:48Obviously, Blaylock is their leader, but Chambliss on the other side, I'm intrigued by this kid week to week,

03:52but also understand this.

03:53Like, I know you've had all that tape from Division II before, and you can check it in,

03:57but now he's on tape with these SEC teams.

04:00Talk about him, eight touchdowns, one interception, 1,500 yards.

04:03They also have a pretty good ground game, but Chambliss in this game today is going to have to be the go-to guy, man.

04:07He is, and not just through the air, but on the ground.

04:10And when you look at last week against Georgia, right, he had made some plays,

04:14but they only, as a collective team, rushed for 88 yards against that Georgia front seven.

04:19It's going to be difficult to run the football yet again against that front seven in Oklahoma.

04:23That's holding opposing offenses well under four yards per carry.

04:27They shut down Lenora Sellers in that rushing attack last week.

04:31I think they could duplicate that in this ballgame.

04:33Again, when you look at Trinidad Chambliss, can he put pressure on that defense on the perimeter to sustain drives is going to be critical.

04:41Let's not forget, Oklahoma held down Sellers.

04:44They held down Jackson Arnold, another mobile quarterback, earlier in the year.

04:48They held down Bryce Underwood for the most part.

04:50So they have stepped up against mobile quarterbacks at home and on the road,

04:55and I think that's why it's an uphill battle.

04:57Should be a very great game and one of the best games on the board,

05:00but I still lean to the physicality of Oklahoma.

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