Good morning, Everydayers. It’s Thursday of Georgia week, two days out. Ole Miss legend Bill Flowers leads today, with his plan for Georgia’s run game and his final score. Then today’s LOOM Flagship, a crossover with Corey Burton, who was on Mark Richt’s staff at Georgia, on why Saturday night is an old-school football game in a spread offense’s clothes.
🏈 Legend Speaks: Bill Flowers
Ole Miss legend Bill Flowers was in Oxford for the 45-15 win over Auburn, and he joined Locked On Ole Miss on Wednesday to break down Georgia. His key is simple: “What beats Ole Miss is getting pounded by the run.” His plan is to bring the safeties down, put pressure on Gunner Stockton and meet Georgia’s runners in the hole. “You’re not going to beat me on the ground.”
He thinks Trinidad Chambliss is the difference: “You cannot draw up a perfect defense for that kind of quarterback,” and he expects Chambliss to run more Saturday than he has all year. On what’s at stake: “This is the win that solidifies you and stamps you for the playoff.”
His pick for Saturday, and his alone: Ole Miss 27-21.
What we couldn’t confirm: Flowers’s and the show’s comments on other teams’ coaching and quarterback situations, and on one Ole Miss receiver’s confidence, aren’t reporting, so they’re not in this newsletter.
Watch the full Bill Flowers interview · More from Bill on the Hub.
☕ Morning Coffee
“This is a 1980s-style football game.”
That’s how Steven opened today’s LOOM Flagship, a Georgia-week crossover with Corey Burton, who was on Mark Richt’s staff at Georgia. Three things from today’s show:
- The trenches decide it. Steven opened the show with the frame for Saturday: “This is a 1980s-style football game” disguised as a modern spread offense. Whoever runs the ball and stops the run wins. The matchup up front is the best in the game. Georgia has 26 sacks this season. Ole Miss hasn’t allowed one in three games, 137 straight pass-blocking snaps. Steven’s explanation: “It’s hard to sack Trinidad because it’s hard to rush Trinidad.” Rushers don’t come as hard when they’re worried he’ll take off.
- Ole Miss has a plan B. For five years the knock on Ole Miss was that it needed explosive plays. Without Kewan Lacy, the Rebels ran for 224 yards against Auburn, converted 13 of 16 third downs and put together four drives of 11 plays or more. “This Ole Miss team looks like it has a little bit of a plan B,” Steven said. Corey’s answer for Georgia is to take the big plays away and “make Ole Miss work for it.” And on Chambliss: “Once he breaks containment, it’s ball game.”
- A coin flip, and one pick. The LOOM Model has the teams 0.1 points apart in power rating. Steven’s players to watch beyond the big names: Shekai Mills-Knight, who led Ole Miss with 75 rushing yards against Auburn, and Baylor transfer linebacker Keaton Thomas, the “eraser” in the middle. The flip side, in Steven’s words: “If you can stop Georgia’s run game, the more you stop them, the more average that offense becomes.” Corey’s pick, and his alone: Georgia 34-31.
📰 New On The Hub
Bill Flowers Says A First-Round Projection Is Why Trinidad Chambliss Stopped Running. The Ole Miss legend on why he expects that to change Saturday.
Georgia Never Punted In Athens, And Ole Miss Beat It The Night It Did. The number to count Saturday night.
“Every Game We Play Is A Playoff Game”: Will Echoles On Georgia, Tah’j Butler On The Sugar Bowl Tickets He Didn’t Buy and Caleb Cunningham On Staying Home. Three players, in their own words, on Georgia.
Poll of the Day: How many rushing yards can Georgia get Saturday and still lose? Vote, then see where the Everydayers landed.
🏈 The Numbers
- 2: days to Georgia
- 26: Georgia sacks this season
- 0: sacks allowed by Ole Miss in its last three games, 137 straight pass-blocking snaps
- 224: Ole Miss rushing yards against Auburn, without Kewan Lacy
- 75: Shekai Mills-Knight’s team-high rushing yards against Auburn
- 21: straight games with a touchdown pass for Trinidad Chambliss. One more ties Chad Kelly’s program record of 22
- 0.1: Georgia’s margin in the LOOM Model
🎤 What They Said
What beats Ole Miss is getting pounded by the run.
Bill Flowers, Ole Miss legend
This is a 1980s-style football game.
Steven Willis, on today’s LOOM Flagship
Once he breaks containment, it’s ball game.
Corey Burton, on Trinidad Chambliss
We got the best crowd in America for sure.
Caleb Cunningham
🏥 Injury Watch
| Player | Status |
|---|---|
| Kewan Lacy, RB | Not expected vs. Georgia. Golding: “We’re not expecting to have him this week.” |
| Luke Ferrelli, LB | Ankle. Started vs. Auburn but “didn’t feel like he was at 100%.” |
| Jalyn Crawford, CB | Shoulder. Played four snaps vs. Auburn. |
📈 The Line And The LOOM Model
Per FanDuel, logged in our betting sheet Sunday morning, Nov. 1: Georgia -3.5, total 56.5. Lines move, so check FanDuel for the current number.
The LOOM Model has it closer: Georgia by 0.1, a coin flip. Full LOOM SEC Power Ratings.
The show reads the market. It doesn’t make picks; its guests do, by name.
🔮 Next: Georgia
| Matchup | CFP No. 2 Georgia (7-1) at CFP No. 10 Ole Miss (6-2, 4-2 SEC) |
| Kickoff | Saturday, Nov. 7 · 6:30 p.m. CT / 7:30 p.m. ET |
| Where | Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford |
| TV | ABC |
| Last meeting | Ole Miss 39, Georgia 34, Sugar Bowl |
Two days to Georgia. A win would be the 17th straight at home, a new program record. Full game week preview.
🏀 Hoops: The Women Host North Alabama Tonight
Coach Yo’s team is back at the Pavilion tonight at 6 p.m. CT against North Alabama, after an 80-38 opener in which Doneelah Washington blocked seven shots and Jade Tillman had a 14-and-11 double-double. Chris Beard’s team, 99-58 winners over Alcorn State with 26 forced turnovers, plays Friday at 7:30 p.m. CT, the night before Georgia.
📻 This Week On Locked On Ole Miss
| Monday | LOOM Flagship: Ole Miss Showed How To Beat Georgia | Trinidad Chambliss Got Right |
| Tuesday | LOOM Flagship: Kirby Smart: Chambliss Is Probably The Best QB In The Country |
| Tuesday | Legend John Fourcade on Auburn, Georgia and the playoff run |
| Wednesday | LOOM Flagship: Pete Golding: Stop The Run Or It’s A Long Night |
| Wednesday | Bill Flowers: Chambliss Will Run More Than He Has All Year |
| Today | LOOM Flagship: Ole Miss vs Georgia Is A 1980s Football Game | Chambliss vs The Spy |
| On the Hub | Bill Flowers on Chambliss · Count the punts · Echoles · Georgia preview |
🔗 Five Clicks
1. What turned Ole Miss vs. Georgia into one of the SEC’s most electric rivalries (Clarion Ledger)
The two programs split last season, and Trinidad Chambliss calls the series a “chess match.” How it got here.
2. Everything to know about Georgia (Ole Miss on SI)
Georgia’s 7-1 season, Gunner Stockton and the run game, and a defense full of likely first-round picks.
3. Georgia never punted in Athens, and Ole Miss beat it the night it did (OleMissHub)
The one number from the last two meetings worth watching Saturday night.
4. Bill Flowers on why Trinidad Chambliss stopped running, and why that changes Saturday (OleMissHub)
More from the Ole Miss legend’s Georgia-week conversation.
5. “We got the best crowd in America”: Caleb Cunningham on staying home and Georgia (OleMissHub)
The Weir, Mississippi, receiver on Coach LD, the crowd and Saturday night.
💬 Join the Everydayers
Corey has Georgia 34-31. Bill has Ole Miss 27-21. What’s yours? Not the spread, the score. Post it in the LOOM Private Discord. It’s free to join, and the Georgia game thread is open in #game-day.
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Two days to Georgia. Hotty Toddy. 🦈
