Alex Kirshner

I think if one of these offenses goes boom, it's very likely that it's Ole Miss's.

And so that tilts it slightly in Ole Miss's direction for me.

Looks like Ole Miss is getting about three and a half for a sense of what our friends in the desert are thinking.

That's interesting to me.

I think I would have guessed that this would have been a point or two tighter, actually.

That's a reasonable difference of opinion.

I think Ole Miss might be being slightly penalized by bettors for the coaching situation.

Just slightly.

It's hard to quantify that.

That a half point adjustment?

That whole deal?

Not a ton of shared reference points.

I'm glad you brought up the way that Golding has handled this, by the way, for Ole Miss.

I think it's actually been kind of masterful on his part and even Keith Carter's part, the AD, too.

They made a gamble with Lane in letting him take that down to the Egg Bowl, and they got burned.

And if you wanted to argue a couple weeks ago that that was a failure of leadership to not see it coming, being in the building with him, then okay, you could argue that.

That's fair.

But the way they –

elevated the right guy seemingly, at least for this run.

At least for now.