It's easy to buy into optimistic offseason hype. Ole Miss fans eagerly lapped up the summer talk that a Rebel team that was awful at running the ball in 2014 was making the necessary adjustments to turn the ground game around in 2015. Javon Patterson and Robert Conyers were going to bring reliability to the interior of the O-line; Jordan Wilkins and Akeem Judd were the physical power backs that had been missing; Hugh Freeze was emphasizing "dirty runs" (stop giggling) and having his backs line up tighter to the QB to get them to the line of scrimmage quicker.
Ole Miss needs to fix its running game to have a shot at the Playoff
