Aside from the first two games and opening 17 minutes in Berkeley, you may have noticed that Ole Miss’ offensive performance report card is littered with F-minuses and “Are you still enrolled in school?” with a request for a parent-teacher conference as soon as possible. After scoring 16 points and rolling up 250 yards in those initial 17 minutes against Cal, the offense has scored 3 points and scrapped together 422 yards in the last 103 minutes.
There have been a few spurts of non-misery, but those are always undone by a streak of mistakes. For instance, at Cal, the offense collected 11 penalties, with 842 of those being false starts, which led to longer second and third downs.