The SEC giveth, and the SEC taketh away.
After dropping a 37-7 blowout to Mississippi State, the now-No. 24 LSU Tigers were teetering on the brink of irrelevancy. But the Southeastern Conference, ever the unpredictable mistress, suddenly ebbed in LSU’s favor, with back-to-back wins over then-No. 21 Florida and then-No. 10 Auburn. With a renewed sense of purpose, the 5-2 Tigers are next in line to visit Oxford this weekend for a bout with the struggling Ole Miss Rebels.
Hugh Freeze, the former Ole Miss head coach, left behind a program in chaos. After four consecutive top-20 recruiting classes, including a top-five group in 2016, the Rebels’ 2017 class fell out of the top 30.