Ole Miss is 6-3 and Oklahoma 5-4, and they meet Saturday in Norman at 3:15 p.m. Central. Oklahoma’s defense has allowed 304 yards a game and held Florida to seven points, the same Florida that scored 52 on Ole Miss. Its offense has averaged 22.1 points, scoring 25 or fewer in seven of nine games.
Locked On Ole Miss host Steven Willis built his upset case on the second number, not the first. Willis argued the defense does not need to be good on Saturday, only serviceable, because the offense across from it cannot punish an average one. “You just can’t be putrid,” he said, nine games into a season he has spent calling it exactly that.
The evidence is Ole Miss’s own. Missouri ran for 39 yards against this defense and Auburn managed 63 on 27 carries. Willis said that version is all Saturday asks: force third-and-five or longer, tackle the ball carrier, make Oklahoma go 75 yards without a mistake. Pete Golding said Oklahoma wants to shrink the game the way Georgia did.
The price of a low bar is an exceptional offense, and Willis said long drives will not get there. He wants two shots downfield a quarter, completed or not, to keep Oklahoma’s safeties off the line. Horatio Fields caught eight passes for 96 yards against Georgia and is now the leading receiver; Willis wants Deuce Alexander out of a slump.
Kewan Lacy is out again and Patrick Kutas is out at right guard, a week after Georgia sacked Trinidad Chambliss four times. Willis expects Shekai Mills-Knight to take 20 carries and the backfield job, and he picked Ole Miss even as the market moved toward Oklahoma all week. Nine wins remain available; a loss, he said, makes the season about next year.
Photo: Horatio Fields and Samari Reed, October 31, 2026, at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Petre Thomas-Imagn Images.
Adapted from the November 13, 2026 episode of Locked On Ole Miss, hosted by Steven Willis, part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Watch the full episode.
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