Ole Miss plays at Oklahoma on Sunday a week after a 42-7 home loss to Georgia, a 35-point defeat that followed a 24-point loss to Florida. Oklahoma has still not won two games in a row all season, though its defense has tightened: seven points at Florida last week and 15 to Mississippi State, against the 42 South Carolina scored in Norman.
Locked On Ole Miss host Steven Willis said one concern had occupied him all week: opposing staffs have worked out how to defend the offense Ole Miss runs. Willis pointed to what Texas and Georgia did to the Rebels and what Alabama did to LSU, and wondered whether Texas would repeat it Saturday night.
His guest from Locked On Bets took Oklahoma, on the shape of the season rather than the matchup. The handicapper argued the Rebels have not lost a game that stayed competitive throughout, citing the 35-point margin against Georgia and the 24 against Florida, and said even the Texas loss was one the Rebels were being run out of early.
He audited the wins the same way, listing Auburn, Missouri and Vanderbilt as teams Ole Miss was supposed to beat. The method carried his card: Tennessee on the road after a run through Texas A&M’s schedule, no points laid with LSU against anyone decent, and Texas as a road underdog for the first time this season.
He backed Auburn at Mississippi State too, where Willis noted a sixth straight loss would make the Egg Bowl a bowl-eligibility game the handicapper would not entertain. His hedge was that Oklahoma is no easier to trust, and nobody in the conference is. He noted Ole Miss had won the first two meetings since Oklahoma joined the SEC, and argued Oklahoma has to put two together eventually.
Photo: Horatio Fields, Oct. 17, 2026, at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Petre Thomas-Imagn Images.
Adapted from the November 14, 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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