Ole Miss is 9th in the AP poll and 11th in the coaches poll, both released Sunday, without playing a game. The prediction market has them somewhere else entirely. Kalshi's Playoff board lists twelve teams with the best chance of getting in. Ole Miss is twelfth on it, at roughly 38-39%. The last team in. LSU - the team Ole Miss beat by eight in Oxford three weeks ago - sits ahead of them at 47%. ESPN's Football Power Index is harsher still: Ole Miss 19th, a spot behind Mississippi State, with a projected 7-5 finish. The poll measures what Ole Miss has done. The models measure what is left: Missouri, a trip to Texas, Auburn, Georgia and a trip to Oklahoma. Segment two: what Saturday is actually worth. Not a ranking - the right to still be in the conversation when Missouri comes to Oxford. A win keeps a December game in Oxford on the table; a loss turns December into a December game on an airplane. The honest counterweight: nobody is eliminated in October, and a team with four ranked wins has shown it travels. Ninth, or nineteenth? Tell me in the comments. Locked On Ole Miss Hits - quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #SEC #CollegeFootball #CFP #RebelNation
Ole Miss is 9th in the AP poll and 11th in the coaches poll, both released Sunday, without playing a game. The prediction market has them somewhere else entirely.
Kalshi's Playoff board lists twelve teams with the best chance of getting in. Ole Miss is twelfth on it, at roughly 38-39%. The last team in. LSU - the team Ole Miss beat by eight in Oxford three weeks ago - sits ahead of them at 47%.
ESPN's Football Power Index is harsher still: Ole Miss 19th, a spot behind Mississippi State, with a projected 7-5 finish.
The poll measures what Ole Miss has done. The models measure what is left: Missouri, a trip to Texas, Auburn, Georgia and a trip to Oklahoma.
Segment two: what Saturday is actually worth. Not a ranking - the right to still be in the conversation when Missouri comes to Oxford. A win keeps a December game in Oxford on the table; a loss turns December into a December game on an airplane.
The honest counterweight: nobody is eliminated in October, and a team with four ranked wins has shown it travels.
Ninth, or nineteenth? Tell me in the comments.
Locked On Ole Miss Hits - quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #SEC #CollegeFootball #CFP #RebelNation