Georgia plays at Ole Miss on Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. Central on ABC. One other game on the Southeastern Conference slate bears on the Rebels’ season: LSU hosts Alabama, both 6-2, the loser left with a third loss. Alabama has won five of the past six meetings. LSU has beaten Texas A&M by 29, shut out Mississippi State 31-0 and won 38-17 at Auburn.
Locked On Ole Miss host Steven Willis built the day’s biggest hypothetical out of those two results. If Ole Miss beats Georgia and LSU beats Alabama, Willis said, the two could meet again in Atlanta for the conference championship. He called it the nuclear option: “I think at this point I want that.” Ole Miss already beat LSU this season.
The Locked On Bets handicapper who joins the show each week took LSU, the half of that scenario Ole Miss cannot control. He argued LSU has come together since losing to the Rebels, and that Alabama scored 27 points combined in back-to-back losses to Georgia and Tennessee. He is not buying Alabama’s direction.
Willis also pointed at Texas at Missouri as the day’s heaviest upset risk, a ranked-versus-ranked game he said gets lost in the shuffle. The handicapper took Missouri, and his reasoning was geography: Texas has not left its own state since a 20-7 win at Tennessee on September 26. Missouri beat Arkansas 34-10 a week after losing to Ole Miss.
On the Rebels’ own game the handicapper took Ole Miss and the points, making the case on venue. Ole Miss and Georgia met twice last season and neither meeting was in Oxford, and the Rebels still won the playoff game, outgaining Georgia 473-343. That is the first result Willis wants Saturday. The second comes down on the bayou.
Photo: Caleb Cunningham, Luke Hasz and Patrick Kutas, October 31, 2026, at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Petre Thomas-Imagn Images.
Adapted from the November 7, 2026 episode of Locked On Ole Miss, hosted by Steven Willis, part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Watch the full episode.