By the time Ole Miss defensive coordinator Wesley McGriff met with Oxford-area reporters Monday, he had done his homework on the Rebels’ next opponent.
“We’ve been looking at them very carefully for two weeks now,” McGriff said.
“Them” is the South Carolina offense, a Jake Bentley-led unit scheduled to take on Ole Miss at noon, Saturday, inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The Rebels (5-3, 1-3 SEC) fell to Auburn on Oct. 20 and have been off since. An open date on the schedule allowed McGriff to take a deeper dive into a foe Ole Miss hasn’t faced in nine years.