{"id":17341,"date":"2014-10-19T21:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=17341"},"modified":"2015-11-12T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T23:38:25","slug":"four-more-and-a-blue-hose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/four-more-and-a-blue-hose\/","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Ole Miss Rebels Continue Defensive Domination, Eye College Football Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now, four sentences I never imagined I would write in sequence. There are three unbeaten teams that have a shot at making the first College Football Playoff<\/strong>. Two of them are from Mississippi<\/strong>. No. 3 Ole Miss<\/strong> is 7-0 (4-0) on the season. Yay. <\/span><\/p>\n

With just five games remaining, only\u00a0 the LSU Tigers<\/strong>, Auburn Tigers<\/strong>, Presbyterian Blue Hose <\/strong>(I know), Arkansas Razorbacks,<\/strong> and the Mississippi State Bulldogs<\/strong> stand between Ole Miss and a perfect regular season. The probability of Ole Miss hosting Gameday twice more this year is high, and all is well in Oxford. <\/span><\/p>\n

Led by the Landshark Defense<\/strong>, Ole Miss is only yielding an average of 10.6 points per game. In SEC<\/strong> games, the defense has allowed just over seven points per game (not including the fumble return for a touchdown by Alabama<\/strong>). Head Coach Hugh Freeze<\/strong> knows that when defense doesn’t give up much, an offense doesn’t have to be as aggressive in its play calling. <\/span><\/p>\n

“You can tell from our play calling that we’re comfortable as long as the defense is playing like they are,” Freeze said, “We’re very cautious at times. You have to figure if we can score 17-20 points then we have a chance to win a lot of games with the way we’re playing.”<\/span><\/p>\n

How’s their season going?<\/span><\/strong>
\nTotal Combined Record of Ole Miss Opponents: 24-18<\/span><\/p>\n

Boise State ~ 5-2<\/span>
\nLost to Ole Miss and Air Force. <\/span>
\nBeat Fresno State, Nevada, Lafayette and Connecticut <\/span><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt ~ 2-5<\/span>
\nLost to Temple, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Kentucky and Georgia<\/span>
\nBeat Massachusetts and Charleston Southern <\/span><\/p>\n

Memphis ~ 3-3<\/span>
\nLost to UCLA, Ole Miss and Houston<\/span>
\nBeat Austin Peay, Middle Tennessee and Cincinnati <\/span><\/p>\n

No. 4 Alabama ~ 6-1<\/span>
\nLost to Ole Miss<\/span>
\nBeat West Virginia, Florida Atlantic, Southern Miss, Florida, Arkansas and Texas A&M<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas A&M ~ 5-3<\/span>
\nLost to Mississippi State, Ole Miss and Alabama<\/span>
\nBeat South Carolina, Lamar, Rice, Southern Methodist University and Arkansas<\/span><\/p>\n

Tennessee ~ 3-4<\/span>
\nLost to Oklahoma, Georgia, Florida and Ole Miss<\/span>
\nBeat Utah State, Arkansas State and Chattanooga\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now, four sentences I never imagined I would write in sequence. There are three unbeaten teams that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":16621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[283,4526,2313,4106,160,2706,41,4523,4524,468,5,1644,7067,4525,700,4522,2311,2087,3,90],"class_list":["post-17341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-alabama","tag-arkansas-razorbacks","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-boise-state","tag-carver-rayburn","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-hugh-freeze","tag-landshark-defense","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-memphis","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-state","tag-ole-miss","tag-presbyterian-blue-hose","tag-rebels","tag-rebs","tag-sec","tag-texas-am","tag-the-local-voice","tag-vanderbilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bryant2WEB.jpg?fit=690%2C435&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}