The Ole Miss football team’s matchup with the newly top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide turned into a blowout, as expected, but there’s no denying that there was something different about this loss.
Every football coach in America will tell you over and over that there’s no such thing as a moral victory. A win is a win and a loss is a loss, but taking a look back at Saturday, Rebel fans can be as happy as one could possibly be about a 59-31 loss.
The Rebels walked into Bryant-Denny Stadium with true freshman quarterback John Rhys Plumlee behind the steering wheel and led 10-7 after one quarter, giving the Tide their first deficit of the season.