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SEC SQUAD - Ole Miss Gets Set For College Football Semifinal PLUS Transfer Portal CHAOS
07 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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everybody welcome into the SEC squad sit back grab your favorite beverage and join us as we get you ready to talk another week of well at least one more week of SEC football action we'll see if this carries over one more week as Ole Miss Rebels will take on the Miami Hurricanes Thursday night in Phoenix, Arizona. Let's welcome in our panel. We got Zach Blackerby from Locked On Auburn.
We got Stephen Willis, the man of the hour, Locked On Ole Miss. Corey Burton from Locked On Vandy. Jimmy Stein, Locked On Bama. John Miller, Locked On The Zoo. I am Chris Gordy from Locked On SEC. And gentlemen, we'll get into the transfer portal and everything else, but we do have a football game happening this week. How'd we get here? How is Ole Miss the last SEC team standing?
They beat Georgia is how the last SEC team standing. And honestly, that was a very nice night in the Sugar Bowl. I had a good time. And it's really nice to be the, I don't know, I'm worried about throwing my back out, carrying the entire conference in football. Oh, wow. Oh, man. It's going to be rough.
And the good news is Arkansas, Mississippi State, Missouri, everybody, if we can do it, you can do it. Don't let anybody tell you you can't. What about Vanderbilt? Come on. You're screwed. Oh, come on. You're closer than anybody, right? I'm kidding. If Northwestern thinks they can win with Chip Kelly, anything's possible, I'd say. I really do. It is crazy, though, guys.
I mean, like, it's, you know, look, I'm not, we're not all about conference pride everywhere we go, but like the Big Ten people, they've been squawking. And if the Big Ten wins a third straight championship, it's going to suck. So is anybody kind of pulling for Ole Miss here from the periphery? Yeah, I'm pulling for Ole Miss. Yeah, sure.
I'm definitely pulling for Ole Miss, mostly for my guy Steven, but also just to kind of ram it down Lane Kiffin's throat a little bit would be enjoyable. I don't know if Chris Gordy agrees with me, but I personally would enjoy that, and I have to admit I did enjoy seeing Ole Miss pull the upset after the reaction show.
I have to say I was going, wait a second, Ole Miss plus seven and a half against Georgia? What I said was that was an Athens line, not a Sugar Bowl line, and I think that somewhat proved out, and obviously the takeaway is Trinidad Chambliss was just incredible in the ballgame.
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Chapter 2: How is Ole Miss the last SEC team standing?
We're in the Final Four. We could win the whole thing. And they're like, oh, the SEC, they'll just never be the same as what they were. It's the bias that Alabama and Georgia and these name brands not being in the game, it's completely showing through right now. As far as the conference strength goes, guys, too, I wonder what these other leagues' bowl records might be.
If you took their best five teams out of the bowl lineup, then they played the bowls with the rest of what's left after their best five teams weren't really playing in all these bowls that the national media is pointing out, saying the SEC is down. Really, in most of these bowls, the 10th place SEC team is losing everything.
to like the third place Big 12 team, and they say that that's a measure of conference strength. I'm not so sure that it is. Nuance and context? No, they're not going to do that, though, Jimmy. There's no way. You're absolutely right. Big 10, Big 10, Big 10. I know Vanderbilt didn't help that cause in the Reliac West Bowl, but... In this weird universe, Texas did. Who knows?
Hey, Auburn didn't hurt it this bowl season, so y'all are welcome for that. The crazy thing is, I mean, LSU-Houston was close. Tennessee-Illinois was like, a lot of games were close. The only one that really I give props that they were pretty fully loaded was Vandy. They just had a terrible first half, played much better than the second half, but it was a little too late.
Missouri was close against Virginia, even though, once again, we could barely complete a forward pass the last month of the season. So I guess congrats to us. Yeah, like Judge Missouri on a quarterback, that's definitely not going to be QB1. And again, Virginia no worse than the third best team in the ACC based on the regular season, and Missouri finishing somewhere around ninth in the SEC.
I'm not so sure that's ACC versus SEC. They should have won the ACC championship, but they let it slip away. We buried two SEC teams this past weekend. We know Georgia was close with Ole Miss and lost in the final seconds, but Jimmy Stein, your Alabama Crimson Tide got obliterated by Indiana. What happened? Not going to defend that.
I mean, it was a strange season for Alabama in the sense that it was bookended by what amounts to disasters. There was the disaster to open the season against Florida State. There was a disaster to end the season against Indiana. The 13 games in between were largely really good.
I mean, it included a lot of the road win over Georgia, beating four ranked teams in a row, finishing the SEC regular season as the number one seed going into the SEC championship game, getting not only to the playoff, but winning a game in the playoff on the road. A lot of good things in those 13 games, but the bookends were literal disasters as far as the fans in Tuscaloosa are concerned.
As far as anybody's concerned, I haven't seen Alabama get shellacked like that in quite some time. Yeah, it was a physical. Jimmy, when's the last time that's happened? Arkansas in 1998 was the last time they were beaten that badly. And Arkansas that year clearly is not what Indiana is this year. That was Mike Dubose's second year at Alabama. And that was, I think, a September game.
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Chapter 3: What are the playoff implications for Ole Miss against Miami?
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