| 14 January 2012
Ole Miss travels to Auburn for another crucial SEC matchup today. The Rebels need to take advantage of a rebuilding Auburn program on the road. As we all know and has been written, said and widely acknowledged, road wins are hard to come by in the SEC. The Tigers are one of the worst teams in the conference and present a real opportunity to get one. Ole Miss plays each SEC West team twice and it needs a sweep against at least one of them it's to get past that .500 conference record ceiling, where each of Kennedy's teams have hovered or stayed below for his previous five seasons. Getting past that .500 threshold, while daunting for a unit that has struggled to score most of the season, is nonetheless crucial if the Rebels hope to get a sniff of the NCAA Tournament. Will today be the day one of those young guards like Jelan Kendrick, LaDarius White or Jarvis Summers finally find some rhythm? Will Nick Williams continue the aggressive play that got Ole Miss 18 points Wednesday night? That's got to be the hope. While Murphy Holloway was able to carry Ole Miss to a win against Arkansas, he can't do it alone, especially on the road. That's what I'll be watching today. Which player will take Holloway's lead and step up? If one does Ole Miss would have its first back-to-back wins since early December, and will have some needed positive energy headed into a date with rival Mississippi State next week. As cliche as it may sound, it's another big game today on the Plains.
PLAYOFFS: This is an exciting weekend of NFL Football! With the Saints, Giants, Packers all still alive I get to watch all my favorite teams in do-or-die games, fighting to get to the Super Bowl. Add to that the thrill of watching Tim Tebow take on the Patriots in wintery Boston tonight, and a chance for redemption against the villainous (to me anyway) Tom Brady, and it just doesn't get any more dramatic. The Broncos had their win streak snapped badly by New England a few weeks back and Tebow imploded. All of that on the heels of Tebow's heroics from last week make tonight's game must-see TV! Literally. Some are speculating the prime time event will get the highest NFL ratings EVER! Follow that with tomorrow afternoon's rematch of the 2008 NFC Championship game between the Giants and the Packers on Lambeau's Frozen Tundra and the chance to see Eli Manning possibly lead his team back to the Super Bowl with a win against the league leading Packers when just a couple weeks ago the Giants seemed done and PINCH ME this is setting up to be an incredible weekend of football. I haven't even mentioned the Saints, P-Willy... oh man...
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