Talk of Champions

Ole Miss football has truly only had a handful of legitimately consequential, program-defining games in the last two decades. Alabama next week could very well meet the criteria. Of course, the Crimson Tide has to get past LSU first, though the Rebels (8-1, 4-1 SEC) can rest easy over their well-earned (and, frankly, long-overdue) bye week. Ben Garrett and David Johnson discuss in this edition of...

No. 15 Ole Miss football bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 31-28 at Texas A&M on Saturday. The Rebels (8-1, 4-1 SEC) were literally carried by Quinshon Judkins, who set new career-highs in yards (205) and carries (34) in posting just the 12th 200-yard rushing effort in program history. He's now the Ole Miss freshman rushing leader (1,036 yards), and, as Ben Garrett (Ole...

Four years in Mississippi, then moving to Nashville. Nick Suss is pretty much every girl who goes to Ole Miss from Georgia or Texas. Jokes aside, we’ve got a proper send-off for the soon-to-be former Ole Miss beat writer for the Clarion-Ledger in this That’s Suss! edition of Talk of Champions. Among the topics, naturally, is Nick’s final Ole Miss assignment — a 6:30 p.m. CT kickoff at Texas A&...

In this edition of Hit That Line, Zach Berry and Co. recap Ole Miss' first loss of the season to LSU, as well as jump into the Texas A&M game and preview Week 9, including their 12 locks. What happened in Baton Rouge? Well, for starters, the offense all but disappeared in the second half, so the guys try to identify the root cause, including, potentially, tempo. Lack of depth and/or fatigu...

Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss weren’t the only Rebels who took their first loss of the season on Saturday. All-time Rebel great Jerrell Powe had Ole Miss and the under. So, for the first time in the month-long history of Powe Corner, an Ole Miss podcast in association with Talk of Champions and the Ole Miss Spirit, he’s left licking his wounds. Powe, like Ole Miss, will look to rebound this week agains...

Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss football added last week their 10th four-star prospect to a 2023 recruiting class currently ranked No. 21 in the country.  The Rebels, now with 13 commitments, have a blue-chip percentage of 77 percent, headlined by in-state linebacker Suntarine Perkins. Perkins, the nation’s No. 64 prospect, as calculated by the industry-generated On3 Consensus, is the No. 3 overall lineb...

In this edition of Daytime Fireworks, Zach Berry and David Brandt briefly recap the LSU game before turning their attention to College Station, where on Saturday the no-longer-undefeated Ole Miss Rebels will try to get back into the win column.  Plus, a deep-dive into Week 9 in the SEC and college football, including their picks for the weekend. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code...

In this edition of the Rebel Yell Hotline, Chuck Rounsaville, Gary Darby and Gordon Ford are joined by Ole Miss men's basketball coach Kermit Davis and Harry Harrison of the Ole Miss Radio Network. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.b...

Ole Miss completely controlled its own destiny just a week ago. Thing is, the Rebels, no longer undefeated following a 45-20 loss at LSU, still have everything in front of them.  There's nothing lazier in college football analysis than the fallacy of the must-win game. The reality is every game is a must-win. That's kind of the whole point of the entire, absurd exercise. But the one and on...

Undefeated no more. Only one other time since the 60s — back in 2014 — had Ole Miss won each of its first seven games. Those Rebels lost in their eighth game, at LSU, and their season spiraled, with losses in four of their last six. These 2022 Ole Miss Rebels have now suffered the same fate. Well, at least as far as their trip to Red Stick. Whether Saturday is just a bump in the road for a champio...

LSU’s Jayden Daniels is, statistically, the most effective scrambling quarterback in the country. The exact kind of quarterback Ole Miss has struggled with all season. Actually, just last week, the Rebels had few answers for a similar, if lesser, quarterback. Robby Ashford combined for 210 yards of offense and four touchdowns in a closer-than-it-should-have-been 48-34 Ole Miss win. He wasn’t the o...

Zach Berry and Co. are back for another round of Hit That Line, and this week they're picking winners in week eight of college football, including their locks of the week and Ole Miss' biggest game of the year to date, at LSU. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.co...

Ole Miss will have to pull off its first win at LSU since 2008 if the Rebels hope to remain undefeated and in control of the SEC West. The Rebels are perfect (7-0, 3-0 SEC) through a season’s first seven games for just the second time since the 60s. But they’ll try to avoid the fate of 2014, when their streak was snapped, and season derailed, with a loss in their eighth game at LSU. “I would like...

Kermit Davis is knocking on as much wood as he can find lately, ‘cause his Ole Miss men’s basketball team is as healthy as it’s been in a long, long time. The timing couldn't be better, really. The Rebels are in their third week of preseason practices, and their season opener against Alcorn State is rapidly approaching November 7. They’ll hold a closed scrimmage Sunday with another Power 5 opp...

Star third-year Ole Miss shortstop Jacob Gonzalez will miss the remainder of the fall intrasquad season following an injury suffered in a second-base collision in practice. Long-time Rebel hitting coach Mike Clement, who joined the Ole Miss Spirit's Talk of Champions podcast on Tuesday, said there are no long-term concerns for Gonzalez, who has started over 130 combined games in his two Ole Mi...

David Brandt and Zach Berry are back for another round of Daytime Fireworks, and today they're wallowing in the positive fallout from Ole Miss' first win over Auburn since 2015. Plus, a look-ahead to the Rebels' trip Red Stick, where they haven't won in 14 years, and a whip-around the SEC. We're in the end game now. Should be fun. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my...

In this edition of the Rebel Yell Hotline, Chuck Rounsaville, Gary Darby and Gordon Ford are joined by LSU insider Frank Duffy and Harry Harrison of the Ole Miss Radio Network. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out...

Jordan Watkins transferred to Ole Miss from Louisville in January with the expectation he’d be a featured weapon in a high-powered Lane Kiffin offense. He assumed he’d be used all over, too. However, in preseason practices in the spring and early-fall, the 5-foot-11, 191-pound Watkins, a junior, was mostly worked in the slot and occasionally outside at wide receiver. His role changed once starting...

Ole Miss is one of just six teams still undefeated in college football. The Rebels are also No. 8 in both the Associated Press and coaches Top 25 polls. They sit alone atop the SEC West following just their second 7-0 start (3-0 SEC) to a season since the 60s. And it’s almost all because of Lane Kiffin. The coaching carousel is already spinning, and the third-year Ole Miss head coach is arguably t...

Things got weird, as they seemingly always do, between Ole Miss and Auburn on Saturday. Even so, the Rebels kept rolling, picking up their seventh win (and third in the SEC) in as many tries to start a season for just the second time since the 60s. Ole Miss, which entered play ranked No. 9 in the country in Top 25 polls, used its best-in-show running back stable to never trail in a game the Rebels...

Vanderbilt last week sold out to slow down the Ole Miss rushing attack, which is ranked No. 1 in the SEC after six undefeated weeks for the Rebels. It ultimately didn't matter. Sure, Ole Miss was slowed in the first half, resulting in its first halftime deficit of the season. But the Rebels went on to run for four touchdowns and 143 yards on their 28 combined attempts — good enough for 5.1 yar...

Lane Kiffin has never beaten Auburn going on three seasons as Ole Miss head coach. All-time Ole Miss great Jerrell Powe expects that to change on Saturday, when the No. 9-ranked Rebels host the SEC West rival Tigers at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN. “He’s going to beat the (heck) out of them," Powe said, in this edition of Talk of Champions, an Ole Miss podcast in association with the Ole Miss Spirit. “W...

Hit That Line, a podcast in association with the Ole Miss Spirit , is back and talking Ole Miss-Auburn, which is a legitimate opportunity for the Rebels (6-0, 2-0 SEC) to make a statement in the West. Plus, locks for an electric slate of week-seven games in college football. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out...

Ben Garrett and Steven Godfrey each have a long, tortured history with Ole Miss football. Garrett, though, has taken in every single snap of just the second 6-0 start to a season for the Rebels since the 60s. Godfrey — who, these days, is a national college football reporter — has gotten, at best, a two-quarter look in 2022. No matter. Godfrey has seen enough to heap praise on the job Lane Kiffin...

In this edition of Daytime Fireworks, Zach Berry and David Brandt are back to recap Week 6 in the SEC and look ahead to a massive opportunity for the undefeated (6-0, 2-0 SEC) Ole Miss Rebels to make an October statement. They host Auburn (3-3, 1-2) Saturday at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com * Che...