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  SEC SQUAD - Week 3 BIG SEC Matchups | How will Ole Miss fare? 17.09.2026 36min

  Ole Miss faces high-stakes drama as LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt is suddenly listed as doubtful ahead of their pivotal SEC clash—injury report mind games or a real threat to the Tigers’ playoff hopes? The SEC Squad debates the implications, Lane Kiffin’s reputation for injury report trickery, and the immense pressure on both programs with postseason ambitions on the line. Deep dives spotlight Auburn vs. Florida’s head coaching chess match between Jon Sumrall and Alex Golesh, breakout performances from young quarterbacks like Keelon Russell and Kamario Taylor, and the defensive showdowns shaping the SEC landscape. Can Kentucky rebound against Texas A&M? Will Georgia dispatch Arkansas with ease, or is an upset brewing? The crew tackles SEC playoff paths, key matchups, and the coaching shifts generating buzz across the league.
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  Locked On SEC Picks LSU 38-23 | I Think He's Wrong And Here's Why 17.09.2026 29min

  Every preview of LSU–Ole Miss has been about Lane Kiffin walking back into Oxford. That's not the question. The question is a number Chris Gordy brought onto the show: through two games LSU ranks first in the SEC in yards allowed, and Ole Miss ranks dead last. The Ole Miss half of that is real — Louisville got twelve explosive plays for 340 yards. But LSU's half was built against a Clemson team that then scored one touchdown against Georgia Southern, and a Louisiana Tech team that isn't a measuring stick. One of these defenses has already been exposed and knows what to fix. The other one finds out live. Two days to LSU. Steven Willis is joined by Chris Gordy of Locked On SEC for the crossover, and they end up in completely different places — Willis on Ole Miss 35-31, Gordy on LSU 38-23. In between: the coin-toss decision neither of them could settle, the three offensive wrinkles Ole Miss hasn't put on tape yet, the third receiver who decides this thing, and why both hosts think the whole game comes down to about four plays nobody can name in advance.
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  🧾 LSU Has To Justify Its Existence. Ole Miss Doesn't.| Locked on CFB 17.09.2026 21min

  Every preview of Ole Miss and LSU this week has been about whether the Rebels can handle the moment. That's the wrong question. Ole Miss has been playing defense for nine months — all of this happened to them, and their only job since December has been to keep winning. LSU is the program that has to justify its existence on Saturday night. Three days to LSU. Two days to Miami at Wake Forest. Spencer McLaughlin is joined by Steven Willis of Locked On Ole Miss to break down where the pressure in this top-ten matchup actually sits, why the Rebels' defensive busts are the one thing that ends their night, and the advantage Ole Miss gets for free just by being loud. Then Alex Donno joins for a Friday-night ACC upset alert as Miami travels to a nearly sold-out Wake Forest blackout. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 LSU at Ole Miss with Steven Willis: the hype, the stakes 00:48 Sponsor break 03:30 What LSU still has to prove beyond Clemson 05:08 Which fan base is feeling the pressure more? 08:01 Ole Miss defense: the busts that decide the game 09:06 LSU's first road environment of the season 10:26 Miami at Wake Forest with Alex Donno: upset alert 15:57 Wake Forest keys, Gio Lopez, and score predictions 📌 THREE THINGS 1. Ole Miss has been playing defense for nine months. In Steven Willis's framing, all of this happened to the Rebels — they were the victim in the situation, and their entire job since December has been to keep the Ferrari on the road. LSU is the one that has to justify its existence: national-championship team or not, coach worth the contract, roster worth the price. None of it is answered, and Saturday is the first time anybody gets to check the receipt. 2. The asymmetry decides the week. Ole Miss can lose this football game and still be a 2-0 top-ten team in the playoff conversation Sunday morning. LSU cannot. That is why the pressure sits where it sits, regardless of ranking or point spread. 3. The busts are the whole game. Against Louisville, Ole Miss gave up twelve busted plays for over three hundred yards — that game was only a game because of them. Willis: do that against LSU and "it's not even a competition in that realm." Pete Golding has now described the same unsolved problem two weeks running: an angle issue, players overrunning the football, no gap control. 🦈 EVERYDAYER CLUB — ad-free, plus members-only Discord. 7-day free trial: https://lockedonolemiss.supercast.com 🌐 EVERYTHING ELSE — https://olemisshub.com 🎧 EVERY PLATFORM — https://link.chtbl.com/LOOleMiss?sid=YouTube 💬 THE LOOM PRIVATE DISCORD — free to join: https://discord.gg/KF3dtcQJhC Locked On College Football and Locked On Ole Miss are part of the Locked On Podcast Network — your team, every day. #CollegeFootball #OleMiss #LSU #HottyToddy #SEC
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  I Told Deuce McAllister And WWL New Orleans Ole Miss Wins 35-31 | Here's The Reasoning 17.09.2026 12min

  Every preview of LSU–Ole Miss has said the same thing about the coaching matchup: both staffs know each other, six years in the same building, so it cancels out. That's the wrong read. It isn't symmetrical, and the reason is the headset. Lane Kiffin is an emotional coach — when a look is giving his offense problems, he says so, out loud, in real time. Pete Golding listened to that for six years. Golding, as the coordinator, was never getting on the headset and telling his head coach what frustrated him, because that is not how that relationship works. One of these men broadcast what he hates to play against. The other one kept it to himself. Two days to LSU. Steven Willis joined Deuce McAllister and [CO-HOST] on WWL Radio in New Orleans to give the Ole Miss side of Saturday to an LSU audience — what Oxford actually looks like this weekend, why the front seven is being held back, how you defend a quarterback whose touchdowns come on the ground, the two Rebels nobody is naming nationally, and a final score he was happy to say out loud in Louisiana.
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  Bill Flowers: "If It's Close, The Advantage Goes To Ole Miss" | Kiffin Under Pressure 16.09.2026 27min

  Every preview of LSU–Ole Miss this week has been about Lane Kiffin's return to Oxford. That's the wrong question. The question is whether anybody actually knows how good LSU's defense is. The Tigers have allowed 12.0 points a game — but that number was built on a 51-10 win over a Clemson team that scored one touchdown against Georgia Southern the following week, and a 45-14 win over Louisiana Tech. Two games, and neither of them told us anything. Three days to LSU. Steven Willis sits down with Ole Miss letterman Bill Flowers, who played his first college game in Death Valley as a redshirt freshman in 2001, for a conversation that moves from what this rivalry actually feels like from inside the helmet to the specific football that decides Saturday night — the perimeter, the deep ball, and the one thing Ole Miss has already learned about itself that LSU hasn't.
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  Finebaum Says It's A Must-Win For Kiffin. He's Right. | Ole Miss MUST WATCH Green 16.09.2026 28min

  Every preview of Ole Miss and LSU this week has been about whether the Rebels can handle the moment. That's the wrong question. LSU is ranked higher, favored on the road, and carrying the most expensive roster in college football — and Lane Kiffin left a thirteen-win program to go build it. The pressure belongs to the man flying in, not the one already here. Three days to LSU. Steven Willis puts Paul Finebaum's must-win verdict next to the money, the ranking and the betting line, and finds an asymmetry nobody is talking about. Then the LSU player who actually decides Saturday night — and he isn't the quarterback. Last week he lined up in six different places, including quarterback. And finally, the storyline that somehow went national this week, started by both head coaches on the same afternoon without either one being asked twice.
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  🔴 REBEL SQUAD LIVE: Ole Miss vs LSU — Everything You Need Before Saturday 16.09.2026 33min

  Every preview of Ole Miss and LSU this week has been about whether the Rebels can handle the moment. That's the wrong question. Ole Miss has been playing defense for nine months — all of this happened to them, and their only job since December has been to keep winning. LSU is the program that has to justify its existence on Saturday night. [FOUR/THREE] days to LSU. Steven Willis and the Rebel Squad go live to take the whole game apart: where the pressure actually sits and why Paul Finebaum agrees, the four things Ole Miss has to do to win this football game, the LSU player nobody in Mississippi is talking enough about, and the squad's score predictions. Plus your questions, live in the chat the whole way. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 [FILL FROM CASTMAGIC AFTER THE STREAM] 📌 THREE THINGS 1. The pressure belongs to Lane Kiffin, not Ole Miss. Paul Finebaum, asked on national radio whether Saturday is a must-win for him: "Yes. Yes. Yes." LSU is ranked seventh to Ole Miss's eighth, favored on the road, and carrying the most expensive roster in America — CBS Sports polled 50+ athletic directors, general managers, cap executives and agents and put LSU No. 1, north of $40 million. Kiffin left a 13-win program for a 7-6 one to go build it. And the asymmetry is the whole week: Ole Miss can lose this game and still be a 2-0 top-ten team in the playoff conversation Sunday morning. LSU cannot. 2. Four things decide it. Stop the busts — against Louisville, Ole Miss gave up 12 busted plays for over 300 yards, and Pete Golding has now described the same unsolved problem twice in four days: "an angle issue," guys "overrunning the football and not having gap control." Tackle in space. Stay on schedule, because Kiffin himself said Chambliss and Kewan Lacy produce maybe two negative plays in a whole game. And win the noise — Saturday is LSU's first road environment of the season, and Golding says 67,000 people breaks the sideline-to-helmet communication. 3. Account for Trey'Dez Green. He's 6-7 and 242 out of Zachary, Louisiana, wears LSU's legacy No. 7, led every SEC tight end with seven touchdowns last season, and his twelve career scores are an LSU record at the position. Against Louisiana Tech: 6 catches, 104 yards, a touchdown, 45 yards after the catch. Last week LSU lined him up wide, in the slot, in-line, at H-back, at fullback and at quarterback on a direct snap. The concept they run him on attacks discipline, not talent. 🎙️ ON THE STREAM — Steven Willis and the Rebel Squad [PANEL NAMES]
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  Kiffin Says Ole Miss Has The Best QB, RB And K in College Football| I've Said It For Months 15.09.2026 26min

  Four days from LSU, the two men at the center of the biggest story in college football spent Monday complimenting each other into the ground — and that should worry Ole Miss fans more than a grudge would. Pete Golding, asked about facing the staff he worked for for three and a half years, compared it to a round of golf with your buddies. Lane Kiffin opened his own press conference by deflating the entire premise: "Pete's not gonna tackle anybody. I'm not gonna throw any touchdowns." Then Kiffin told the story of Nick Saban interviewing Golding and calling it the most impressive interview he had ever seen. And each of them handed the other the advantage — Kiffin says the familiarity favors Ole Miss because Golding spent three years hearing what Kiffin hates to play against, and Golding says knowing somebody that well is a trap that makes you overthink. One calls it a weapon. The other calls it a trap. Same three and a half years. Then the part of this week that nobody outside Mississippi has explained properly: why Ole Miss fans are actually angry. It is not about losing a coach. Ole Miss has not won an SEC championship since 1963, and 2025 was finally the year — a playoff run, a pass away from playing for everything. And instead of getting to enjoy November and December, this fan base spent it watching planes to Gainesville and Baton Rouge and a coach working the portal. Saturday is closure. Then the sentence of the week. Kiffin on Ole Miss: "You're talking about the best-playing quarterback, running back, and kicker in the country, coming back." All three, one breath, kicker included. He called Trinidad Chambliss the best-playing quarterback in the country last season, compared the Chambliss–Kewan Lacy backfield to Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush, and told his own locker room the pressure is not on them. Every word of it is true, and true is exactly what makes it work. And then the players, who are the only people in Mississippi who have already moved on. Chambliss on the entire circus: "It's going to be a crazy weekend in Oxford, but it's just another game." On seeing his old head coach: "It's going to be weird. It is what it is." He has been with Pete Golding and John David Baker every day for eight months. The one thing the locker room looked back at was Deuce Knight's hurdle — which Chambliss says Knight had been promising all week he would do. Plus the number: FanDuel has Ole Miss +3.5 at home with a total of 58.5, and what a home underdog in September is actually being told about the road in front of it. This is the first time Ole Miss and LSU have met with both teams ranked in the top ten since 1962, when No. 6 Ole Miss beat No. 4 LSU 15-7 in Baton Rouge.
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  Fourcade: That's A Blown Assignment, Not A Talent Problem | Ole Miss vs LSU Week 14.09.2026 30min

  John Fourcade joins Locked On Ole Miss with LSU five days out, and he starts where the fanbase is loudest: the secondary. His read is not the one you have been hearing. "If a guy's not covering a guy he's supposed to cover, that's a blown assignment. That's not athletic ability." A former Rebel quarterback telling you the back end's problem is execution and not talent is a very different conversation than the one happening on the message boards. We start with what the 41-9 win over Charlotte was actually for. Fourcade's answer: get out clean. No injuries, fix the blown assignments, work the running game, and let Trinidad Chambliss go sit down after 23-of-26 for 225 yards and two touchdowns. Pete Golding said at Monday's podium that Ladarian Clardy had a strong game at free safety, and Fourcade explains why a free safety you can count on decides how the entire back end holds up. Then LSU. Fourcade gives Ole Miss the edge at quarterback, at running back, on the offensive line and along the defensive front, and LSU is still laying the points. We get into why, what Lane Kiffin's return to Oxford does to the number, and his read on an LSU roster he says was built with "$40-something million." His bottom line on Saturday night: "The team with the least amount of turnovers or the least amount of mistakes will win that football game." We also get into the quick passing game as the answer to a hyper-aggressive front, the 2023 Penn State comparison, why he thinks this game never should have moved off Halloween weekend, and the rest of the Week 3 SEC board including Georgia at Arkansas, Mississippi State at South Carolina, and Florida at Auburn. Plus Deuce Knight's hurdle, which Fourcade says is going on a poster.
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  They Showed Nothing And Won By 32 | Cunningham Is Going To Be A Problem | Ole Miss vs LSU is HERE! 14.09.2026 30min

  Ole Miss football beat Charlotte 41-9 on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway, and with LSU six days away the most important thing about the afternoon is how little of it told you anything. That was the objective. Do as little as possible, show only what you want seen, get out clean. Trinidad Chambliss went 23-of-26 for 225 yards and two touchdowns without throwing an interception. Kewan Lacy carried 13 times for 87 yards and two scores and then sat down. Lucas Carneiro hit from 57 and from 41 and went 5-for-5 on extra points. Charlotte scored nine points on three Ian Kelly field goals and did not reach the end zone. But the name to write down is Caleb Cunningham. Six catches, 65 yards, and a role that is growing every week. He is going to be a problem for people as this season goes on, and this show explains why. We also take the first real look at LSU on Saturday night — and the game that keeps coming to mind is not a recent one. It is the 2023 Peach Bowl against Penn State, when Ole Miss attacked a hyper-aggressive defense and won 38-25. John David Baker was on that staff. The blueprint is sitting right there. Then Week 3 SEC betting lines from FanDuel Sportsbook, including a number on this game that should tell you something about where the national market has Ole Miss right now.
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  OVERREACTION: A 41-9 Win Nobody Will Remember | All Eyes On LSU In a Week | Ole Miss Cruises 13.09.2026 36min

  Ole Miss 41, Charlotte 9. Home opener, done, and almost nobody will remember it in three weeks. That's exactly why I spent this stream doing what I said I'd do before kickoff: grading the four things I put on the record, out loud, whether the answers were convenient or not. Nobody gets hurt. First-string defense gives up fewer than 10. Everybody banged up rests, Kewan included. Johntay Cook and Caleb Cunningham get real involvement. It was 27-0 at halftime. Charlotte had six first downs and 118 total yards against mostly ones — and that was the number I actually cared about tonight, not the final. Then they put nine on the board after the break, and I get into what that does and doesn't mean. I also predicted 48-14 and said at -47.5 it probably wasn't a cover. It wasn't. We talk about why 47.5-point spreads ask winning teams to do something they have no reason to do. And then the only thing that actually matters: LSU, next Saturday, 6:30 CT, in this building, on ABC. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⏱️ IN THIS STREAM The four-item scorecard, graded out loud Who actually played — and one name that still isn't on the depth chart The Caleb Odom call I made pregame 48-14 vs 41-9, and what the number was really asking for LSU: eight days, two polls that disagree, and Golding's real test ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔴 MONDAY ON THE FLAGSHIP All four graded again with the tape. Some of these you can't answer in real time — snap counts aren't a live-TV statistic. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🦈 JOIN THE EVERYDAYER CLUB Ad-free episodes + the members-only Discord: https://lockedonolemiss.supercast.com 💬 FREE LOOM DISCORD: / discord 📰 THE EVERYDAYER — the daily newsletter: https://olemisshub.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🎧 LISTEN TO LOCKED ON OLE MISS New episode every weekday, free, everywhere you get podcasts. Locked On Ole Miss is part of the Locked On Podcast Network — your team, every day. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📌 CORRECTIONS Anything I get wrong gets fixed right here after the fact. If you catch something, put it in the comments. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Odds referenced are from FanDuel and were accurate at the time of recording. Must be 21+ and present in select states. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #RebelNation #CollegeFootball #OleMissFootball #LSU #LockedOn Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Poncho Outdoors Go to https://ponchooutdoors.com/LOCKEDON and enter your email to get $10 off and free shipping on your first order Odoo Great organizations win because operations matter. And that’s why you should get Odoo. Try for free today at https://Odoo.com/lockedon. Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. From the opening whistle to the final kick, Let There Be Goals on FanDuel. Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started now. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)
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  Ole Miss Can Win By 40 Tonight And Still Have A Problem | Charlotte Pregame LIVE REPLAY 12.09.2026 30min

  Charlotte at No. 9 Ole Miss. Home opener. 6:45 CT / 7:45 ET on ESPN2 — and we're live two hours out. Ole Miss is favored by 47.5, which is the biggest number in Charlotte football history and the least interesting thing about tonight. So we're talking about what this game is actually for: the official depth chart and the real news buried in it, what a "good night" looks like when the scoreboard is meaningless, and why Pete Golding has never once in his head coaching career walked into a stadium as a favorite. Plus: Charlotte lost at home to The Citadel as a 20-point favorite, and HOW they lost it is the only part that matters tonight. Chat's open. Bring your score prediction and bring the one thing that would make you unhappy even if we win by 40. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⏱️ WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO What tonight is actually for — and why the margin isn't the point The depth chart: who's listed first, who's OR'd, and who isn't on it at all Charlotte, honestly — the Citadel tape, the 5-foot-8 corner, the $1.7 million The four-item scorecard I'm grading out loud on Monday Your questions, live ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔴 POSTGAME STREAM Back live 15–30 minutes after the final whistle. Same channel. Subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss it. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🦈 JOIN THE EVERYDAYER CLUB Ad-free episodes + the members-only Discord: https://lockedonolemiss.supercast.com 💬 FREE LOOM DISCORD — game chat is live right now: / discord 📰 THE EVERYDAYER — the daily newsletter, every morning: https://olemisshub.com ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🎧 LISTEN TO LOCKED ON OLE MISS New episode every weekday. Free and available everywhere you get podcasts. Locked On Ole Miss is part of the Locked On Podcast Network — your team, every day. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Odds referenced are from FanDuel and were accurate at the time of recording. Must be 21+ and present in select states. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #RebelNation #CollegeFootball #OleMissFootball #LockedOn
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  Ole Miss Needs 50 And A Defensive Stand | Locked On Bets Breaks Down The Number 12.09.2026 26min

  Game day, and the biggest Saturday of the young season. Steven Willis is joined by Kevin Rogers of Paramount Sports and Locked On Bets to handicap a card with three SEC-versus-Big Ten matchups on it. The frame for the whole weekend: this is benefit-of-the-doubt week. Mississippi State-Minnesota, Texas-Ohio State, Oklahoma-Michigan — three conference-versus-conference results that will still be getting cited in November when the committee is separating teams with the same record. Go 3-0 and the SEC gets the benefit of the doubt. Go 0-3 and it doesn't. On Texas and Ohio State: the Longhorns outgained the Buckeyes 336 to 203 in Columbus last season and lost 14-7, because the offense couldn't finish in the red zone. What's different now is help — Hollywood Smothers from NC State and Cam Coleman from Auburn. On Michigan: Bryce Underwood threw for 170 yards against Western Michigan, and 47 of those came on the play after the game should have ended. Rogers also has thoughts on a 27-point favorite storming its own field, which he says he never saw once at Florida State. Plus Georgia Tech getting 12.5 from Tennessee and why Brent Key is 5-3 as a dog, Alabama laying 10.5 on the road at Kentucky in the conference opener, and Mississippi State as a road favorite in the Big Ten. And on Ole Miss-Charlotte, the number nobody wants to touch: Rogers lays the 47.5 — but points out the cover has a defensive condition attached. Ole Miss needs 50 to 55 points AND Charlotte held under 10. That's the same thing this show has been asking for all week from the other direction. One more thing worth noting: this is the third guest in three days who has told Steven that Ole Miss is not looking ahead to LSU.
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  Todd Wade: I've Never Seen Anything Like Trinidad At Ole Miss | Keys to Charlotte 11.09.2026 27min

  Ole Miss legend Todd Wade watched the Louisville tape twice, and he came back with the most specific diagnosis anybody has offered of what's wrong with the Ole Miss running game. His read: pass protection was excellent — Trinidad Chambliss got hit a couple of times and that's football — but the run game is stalemates and turn-back blocking rather than drive blocking. And he corrected the popular explanation along the way. The story going around is that Ole Miss linemen were early or late getting to the second level. Wade says that's a symptom: on a combo block you have to get movement on the down lineman before you worry about the linebacker, and when you don't, it's the defensive lineman who blows the play up, not the linebacker. The fix is fundamental — play lower, and let your body travel down with that first step. Also from a man who was on the roster in 1997: asked whether he'd ever seen an Ole Miss quarterback make a more NFL-level throw than Chambliss's first touchdown against Louisville, his entire answer was "No. I don't think we've ever seen anything like him at Ole Miss." Plus why Chambliss's scrambling is different from most quarterbacks who run — he's a late, smart runner, and at that point he's effectively an All-SEC running back. On the offensive line personnel: Tommy Kinzler started at right tackle and went out, and Wade thought the replacement was seamless — confident, no mental errors, no drop-off he could find on a second viewing. Then the disagreement worth listening to. Steven suggested a good number of players will have one eye on LSU this week. Wade, from experience, said that's not how it works inside a season — and that the glaring problems from Louisville are their own motivation. And why the biggest jump in football happens between Game 1 and Game 2, which turns out to be about conditioning more than scheme. Prediction inside — Wade's number covers.
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  A 35-Point Win Might Still Be A Bad Night | Ole Miss vs Charlotte | Rebs Seek Get Right Game 11.09.2026 27min

  Ole Miss is a 47.5-point favorite over Charlotte in Saturday's home opener, so this isn't a show about who wins. It's about what a win has to look like. Steven Willis makes the case that there's a version of Saturday where Ole Miss wins by 35 and it's still a bad night — and lays out how to tell the difference. Pete Golding is going to call a deliberately simple defense, and that's not disrespect, it's a diagnostic: the only way to test communication is to strip everything down and see whether eleven people can line up correctly against an offense that can't hurt them. Blow an assignment in that setting and it stops being a scheme problem and becomes a personnel decision — and the diagnostic isn't just for the starters. Also: Golding has coached four games as a head coach and all four came against ranked opponents. Saturday is the first unranked team he's faced from that chair, and handling a game you're supposed to win by seven touchdowns is a genuinely different job. And the argument nobody else is making — why Louisville was an anomaly rather than a trend. Louisville sits on the Bobby Petrino coaching tree, and that tree has historically given Golding fits. The familiarity runs both directions, which is exactly why it evens out. Put that next to the Arkansas game in 2025 and the Texas A&M game in 2023 and you get one or two of these every season.
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  They Beat A Ranked Team With Their C-Game | What Ole Miss Fixes Before LSU 11.09.2026 11min

  Ole Miss survived Louisville 41-38 on a Lucas Carneiro 48-yarder as time expired, and by Monday a fanbase that just beat a ranked team on a neutral site was talking itself into a crisis. Steven Willis joined The 24th Floor on ABC 24+ to make the case for calm — and to hand Saturday a scorecard. The receipts first: Ole Miss came out of that weekend with the SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week and the SEC Special Teams Player of the Week, 41 points, 31 of them in the second half, and a win over a ranked opponent. That was the C-game. Then the honest part. Most of what Louisville did came on a handful of explosive plays, many of them busted coverages, and there is a roster explanation underneath it: Shareef Denson, the starter at strong safety, never played. Antonio Kite, the starting corner, was hurt six plays in. Half the back end was unavailable or shuffled. Pete Golding called it communication rather than a talent gap, and Steven takes him at his word — with the caveat that it has to be fixed or Lane Kiffin will have a field day in a couple of weeks. Plus the offensive question nobody else is asking: the Ole Miss offense showed up the moment Kewan Lacy went out, and that is not a coincidence. The case is that John David Baker was scheming to get Lacy the football rather than folding him into an offense that already worked. And four things that would make Saturday against Charlotte an actual step forward. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 [FILL FROM CASTMAGIC AFTER RECORDING] 📌 FOUR THINGS I WANT TO SEE AGAINST CHARLOTTE 1. Nobody gets hurt. 2. The defense holds Charlotte to single digits. 3. Every injured player rests — Kewan Lacy included. 4. Johntay Cook and Caleb Cunningham get more involved in the offense. 📌 AND THREE THINGS FROM LOUISVILLE 1. Deuce Alexander announced himself. Two long scores, and the first one came on a straight NFL throw — released a window early, against three-deep coverage, directly in the seam, with the receiver running into it in stride. His end-zone celebration was a Karate Kid nod to Jameson Williams, which is also the comparison that fits. 2. Caleb Odom is the second weapon. Nothing in the first half, then a 35-yard touchdown and the first-down catch on the final drive that set up the winning kick. Ole Miss needed a receiver to emerge opposite Deuce and one did. 3. Don't panic. Last season this program struggled to run on Georgia State, looked bad against Kentucky, and got in a shootout with Arkansas — then beat LSU and played in the national semifinals. September evidence is real, but it is not a verdict. 🎥 EVERYDAYER CLUB EXCLUSIVE: Coach Corey Burton's All-22 breakdown of Deuce Alexander's touchdown is up now for members. 📺 THE 24TH FLOOR — ABC 24+, where this hit originally aired 🦈 EVERYDAYER CLUB — ad-free, plus members-only Discord. 7-day free trial: https://lockedonolemiss.supercast.com 🌐 THE OLE MISS HUB — https://olemisshub.com 💬 THE LOOM PRIVATE DISCORD, FREE — https://discord.gg/KF3dtcQJhC 🎧 EVERY PLATFORM — https://link.chtbl.com/LOOleMiss?sid=YouTube Locked On Ole Miss is part of the Locked On Podcast Network — your team, every day. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #OleMissFootball #SEC #CollegeFootball
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  SEC SQUAD – Week 2 is LOADED with BIG Matchups | Ohio State-Texas! OU-Michigan! 11.09.2026 41min

  SEC powers brace for Week 2 challenges as Oklahoma eyes a statement win over Michigan and Texas seeks redemption against Ohio State. Can Arch Manning and Cam Coleman ignite the Longhorns’ offense, or will Julian Sayin’s Buckeyes spoil the party in Austin? Alabama faces a trap game at Kentucky, while Tennessee’s rushing attack looks to overpower Georgia Tech’s struggling trenches. Host Chris Gordy and the Locked On Podcast Network’s SEC experts debate whether Arkansas can upset Utah, if A&M’s Marcel Reed will silence doubters, and why Mizzou’s Jamal Roberts could set career rushing marks against Kansas.
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  Charlotte Podcaster CRAZY pick for Saturday | Ole Miss Is A 47.5-Point Favorite | LSU Looms for Rebels 10.09.2026 29min

  Charlotte comes to Vaught-Hemingway on Saturday as a 47.5-point underdog — the biggest number in the program's history, bigger than the spread when they went to No. 1 Clemson in 2019. Steven Willis is joined by Hunter Bailey of the Highway 49 podcast, who has covered the 49ers since 2018, for the Know Your Enemy crossover. The headline: Charlotte lost at home to The Citadel, 43-41, as a 20-point favorite. But the way they lost is the scouting report. The Citadel ran for 260-plus yards on them — an FCS school — and did all of it after halftime, scoring touchdowns on their first three second-half drives. And on third and fourth down, The Citadel dialed up cover-zero blitzes that worked. Bailey's expectation is that Ole Miss watches that film and brings six almost every snap. Then the matchup that decides how early this gets out of hand: Charlotte's corners. CB1 Jamil Croft Jr. is a Kansas transfer who led the defense in snaps. CB2 is 5-foot-8, and The Citadel's bigger receivers won the 50-50 balls against him. Asked whether anybody on Charlotte's roster can run with Deuce Alexander, Bailey didn't hedge. Plus: the money (roughly $1.7 million, and this game was originally supposed to be played in Charlotte), the crowd noise Charlotte is pumping into practice after three false starts on their own goal line last week, and why Ole Miss should treat this as a get-right game for a secondary that gave up most of Louisville's offense on a handful of busted coverages. Two days to Charlotte. Nine to LSU. Maybe.
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  Caleb Odom Is Why Deuce Alexander Got Loose | Ole Miss Rebels vs Louisville | Pete Golding vs Charlotte 09.09.2026 28min

  Ole Miss beat a ranked Louisville team at a neutral site and the fan base spent two days arguing about the first half. Steven Willis is joined by Ole Miss legend Bill Flowers to explain why you can step off the ledge — and where the real concern actually is.
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  Ole Miss EXPLOSIVE in Opener | Steven Willis on the Chuck Oliver Show 09.09.2026 10min

  Steven Willis Joins the Chuck Oliver show to talk Ole Miss beating Louisville as we all try to see what that game means.