Texas A&M vs. Ole Miss: Key Showdown for SEC Rankings

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00:00As Ole Miss takes on Texas A&M,

00:02their three and a half point favorites this evening.

00:04This is just a huge game for Mississippi.

00:07If they can win this one, Mike,

00:08you know that this could push them up in the standings

00:10and the rankings as well.

00:12They've been fantastic this season,

00:13but I don't know if there's a ton of believers

00:15in them out there right now.

00:17This would change that.

00:19I look at this game as a game that decides

00:22if there's going to be some...

00:24Right now we have Auburn,

00:25which is unbelievably successful.

00:28Alabama, we talked about.

00:30Tennessee, Kentucky, and then Florida.

00:32Right now, if you said,

00:34okay, you can have those five or the field,

00:37you wouldn't get anybody taking the field

00:39in terms of who's going to win the SEC.

00:41If there's going to be another team

00:44that challenges that quintet

00:46and puts itself into the conversation, at least,

00:50for the SEC regular season title,

00:52it comes from the winner of tonight's game.

00:54Texas A&M missed Wade Taylor for three games,

00:58lost two of them.

00:59That's half their losses on the season.

01:01The last five times they've played high major opponents

01:04with Taylor in the lineup,

01:06won by an average of 10 points.

01:08So he makes an enormous difference.

01:09He's an outstanding player.

01:11Ole Miss's offense is not great,

01:13but their defense can be absolutely suffocating at times.

01:17And we've seen them do that,

01:18not just to teams that are in their weight class,

01:21but outstanding teams.

01:22We've seen them able to apply that,

01:24which they did in the Alabama game.

01:26I believe that was a week ago.

01:28So they can use that defense to hang with anybody.

01:32I think tonight's game,

01:33and it's not going to be easy to call that,

01:36but tonight's game, I think, will decide

01:38whether there is a sixth team

01:40that hangs in the SEC regular season race.

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