Ever since last year’s 4th-and-25 debacle, Ole Miss fans, players and coaches have had the 2016 Arkansas game circled on their calendars with large, red, tentative strokes. Can Hugh Freeze and company exorcise the BERT Devil Magic? We shall find out Saturday night on ESPN.
At the very least, we can fairly comfortably assume this year’s fracas will not require seven damn overtimes to decide a winner. Bielema lacks that ineffable Houston Nutt flare for the insane, even if he carries his own peculiar sort of charm. That WOOSH you just heard was the collective inhale of Rebel nation the world over, by the way.