The Daily Mississippian – September 14, 2012

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BY DAVID COLLIER thedmsports@gmail.com

With thousands of fans flocking to town this weekend, it’s easy to see the excitement that’s swirling in Oxford. Ole Miss welcomes the No. 14 Texas Longhorns for a nonconference clash in Saturday night’s primetime matchup.

When Ole Miss announced the addition of Texas to the football schedule in August 2007, Rebel and Texas fans couldn’t wait for the matchup. Here it is five years later, and the excitement level is at an unprecedented high.

The Rebels (2-0) will take on the No. 14 Longhorns (2-0) of the Big 12 in Saturday’s ESPN primetime showcase at Vaught-Hemingway

Stadium at 8:15 p.m.

Ole Miss hasn’t had a home win over a ranked nonconference opponent from a major conference in the regular season since defeating Notre Dame 20-13 on Sept. 17, 1977. It’s gives the Rebels a huge chance for an eye-popping win.

“We’re very excited about this week,” Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze said in Monday’s press conference. “We have one of the nation’s best teams coming into Oxford. Our kids, fans and coaches are excited about the opportunity that it presents.”

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Homecoming queen, Col. Reb elected Courtney Pearson was named the first black homecoming queen in the history of Ole Miss, along with newly elected Col. Reb, Austin Harrison, in yesterday’s personality runoffs.

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Members of the 1962 Ole Miss football team.

UNDEFEATED 50 Years Later Success in times of adversity: The story of the 1962 Ole Miss football team

BY ADAM GANUCHEAU thedmnews@gmail.com

On Oct. 1, 1962, James Meredith became the first black student at The University of Mississippi. Before and after his official enrollment, violent riots and hate shook the campus and took the focus off of what Ole Miss was known for at the time — the most successful football program in school history.

THE FOOTBALL Ole Miss head football coach Johnny Vaught built a program that teams across the country feared. In 1959, Vaught led the Rebels to their first national championship and produced the same result the following season. In 1961, the Rebels lost just two games and finished the season as the fifth-best team in the nation.

Wanting to prove that they could win a national championship after the previous year’s disappointing outcome, the Rebels understood that 1962 was a very important year. Going into the season, the players

knew people would be watching how they would respond following the down year.

“You prepare every season the same way,” 1962 co-starting quarterback Jim Weatherly said. “We prepared just the same as every other season with the same goal as every other season—to win—and that was very important to all of us, especially Coach Vaught.”

What the Ole Miss coaches and players failed to realize was that the eyes of the nation would be on the school for a completely different reason.

THE BUILDUP Meredith’s goal to put pressure on President Kennedy’s administration and gain civil rights for blacks began long before the federal government ruled that Ole Miss had to allow him to enroll. He applied to the university the day that President Kennedy was inaugurated, and he hoped that his goal was close to being met. He was denied admission to the university on two separate occasions before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled See UNDEFEATED, PAGE 4

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(TOP) Courtney Pearson and (BOTTOM) Austin Harrison celebrate after being named Homecoming Queen and Col. Reb, respectively.

BY KELTON BROOKS krbrooks@go.olemiss.edu

Thursday’s runoff election results named Courtney Pearson as Homecoming Queen and Austin Harrison as Col. Reb. With 51.57 percent of the vote, Pearson became the first

black homecoming queen in Ole Miss history.

“I am just absolutely thrilled that she has a chance to represent the Ole Miss family as homecoming queen,” Dean of Students Sparky Reardon See ELECTION, PAGE 6

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COLUMN

My road to the Democratic National Convention

BY KEGAN COLEMAN ktcolema@go.olemiss.edu

Last week Democrats had a chance to come together in massive numbers in Charlotte, N.C., to host our national convention from Sept.

4-7. I had the distinct pleasure of making the trip with the Mississippi delegation.

This year we were treated to powerful party leaders and quite a few upcoming stars, from primetime speakers such as Michelle Obama, Julian Castro, Elizabeth Warren, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden to the president himself. By the end of the week, I left not only more informed, but more energized about my party.

I have received a lot of questions about how I got to take part in the DNC this year. Truth be told, I had to run for this position at our state convention in Jackson, Miss. I’m not a newcomer to elections, so I jumped at the opportunity and succeeded against individuals who, in my opinion, have twice the wisdom of a college student.

Besides being a delegate, I’m involved in the Democratic Party in my hometown of Calhoun City as a treasurer, serve as a co-chair for Young Democrats of Mississippi and have packed in six years on the state executive committee.

I also stay in close contact with the party chairman, Rickey Cole. I’ve canvassed, done voter registration drives, worked with various campaigns, worked on elections and hosted a couple of fundraisers.

Now a little more about my experience at the convention. I set my alarm for 7 a.m. and rolled out of bed at around 8:30. I headed uptown on a very nice shuttle provided by the DNC. Lunch was provided at noon at different locations throughout the week.

Tuesday’s lunch was provided by Entergy, Wednesday’s by The Blue South Project and Thursday’s by Mississippi Power. I can

COURTESY KEGAN COLEMAN

Kegan Coleman represents Mississippi at the Democratic National Convention.

honestly say I had my fair share of filet mignon that week.

Before events took place each day, I had a chance to visit different caucuses: the women’s caucus on Tuesday and the black caucus on Thursday. On Tuesday, the discussion was focused on women’s health, abortion rights and equality for women in the work force and was hosted by various representatives. Wednesday, between the two caucuses, I was invited to a luncheon hosted

by NBC White House Correspondent Chuck Todd.

The black caucus on Thursday was filled as California Congresswomen Karen Bass talked about legislative challenges to voter rights, a discussion that still continues in Mississippi with the recent Voting Rights Amendment of 2011. A note to voters: As of today, Mississippi does not require voter identification at the polls.

The final day of the DNC not only had the president

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and vice president on the schedule, but James Taylor, Mary J. Blige, The Foo Fighters, Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria made appearances as well.

Thursday’s event was also packed because of the venue change from Bank of America Stadium to Time Warner Arena due to weather conditions. This led to a more packed event than anticipated, causing the fire marshall to close off access to the floor entirely by the early start of the night.

The speakers each delivered something different but essential. Words can’t describe the feeling inside of the arena from start to finish, but I know that when attending a national convention, you feel like somewhat of an evangelical of your political party.

I can honestly say I will never forget this experience and I know this will most certainly not be my last national convention. From 5

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p.m. to midnight each night and starting again in the morning, I felt energized, ready to vote, ready to help my party and exhausted all at the same darn time.

My favorite moments at the DNC were not seeing and listening to current leaders, but hearing the message of all the upcoming leaders of the party. This made me feel very optimistic about the future of the Democratic Party.

Many of the speeches, regardless of your political preferences, were aweinspiring, and having the opportunity to see future mayors, governors, senators and representatives take the stage and encourage our base and newcomers to move our country “Forward, Not Back” was unreal to witness and the experience of a lifetime.

Kegan Coleman is a senior public policy major from Calhoun City MS. Follow him on Twitter @KeganColeman.

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COLUMN

You can be a fan of more than one team

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Ole Miss and LSU fans gather in the Grove before last year’s football game.

This is a sensitive issue, I’m quite aware. Native Ole Miss students are hypersensitive to out-of-state students who have not been lifelong Ole Miss fans and have allegiances to more than one football team.

I, having grown up in New Orleans to an LSU alum, hold dual fandom and have been called a traitor for even suggesting that I like LSU. Please refrain from tweeting me things about corndogs; I don’t understand that comment and I fear I never will.

Facebook drama has been simply overflowing in the last week because Texas fans have been more vocal about their dual identities.

They’ve been told that they should either root for Ole Miss because that’s where they go or that they should have done better in high school so that they could have gone to Texas schools.

That’s really quite a silly thing to say because it not only belittles the academic record of our fine institution, but it precludes the possibility that some people actually chose Ole Miss because they liked it better.

You can love a football team and not want to attend that school. I grew up bleeding purple and gold, but I never considered going to school at LSU. It wasn’t even on my radar. In fact, the only school I visited or applied to was Ole Miss, and I knew immediately that this is where I wanted to spend the next four to six years of my life.

But that doesn’t mean I was ready to burn my Tigers jersey. It also doesn’t mean I wasn’t jumping out of my skin to get to Oxford,

get some Grove dresses and cheer on my Rebs.

This sort of thing happens all the time at this school because every year, there is a mass exodus of recent high school graduates from Texas, Georgia and Alabama to Oxford, Miss. People are always going to come in here with strong familial and locality-based football loyalties, and most won’t be

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willing to shed them at the drop of a hat.

We are the South; we don’t take football lightly. But that doesn’t mean they’re not willing to put the same passion and love into their new school and its football team.

Those of you who were lucky enough to grow up as Rebel fans should feel good about the fact that there are so many people who are

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I get to laugh at Ole Miss tents with corndogs hanging all over them alongside LSU tents making jokes about Louisiana Black Bears. I get to see my two favorite teams play a great game of football, and that’s what the whole game is about.

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willing to go so far away from home to come to this school and become Rebel fans. People who want to sing “Sweet Caroline” at the baseball games and run around the Grove in the dark on Friday nights in order to get a spot for the next day. It’s a compliment to Ole Miss and what a wonderful place this really is.

When my two favorite teams come together every year, I am the most excited, ecstatic person you’ll find on campus. Not because I’m holding onto my lifetime loyalties and hoping for an LSU shutout, or because I’m ready to see my Rebels ream the Tigers, but

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that he had the right to be enrolled.

Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett was furious about the federal government’s decision to enroll Meredith.

Barnett made it his personal mission to not allow Meredith to enroll and publicly refuted President Kennedy’s wishes, even if it took force.

On Sept. 29, 1962, the Rebels played the University of Kentucky Wildcats in Mississippi Memorial Stadium in Jackson. The Rebels played a sloppy game up until halftime but were winning 7-0 — something Coach Vaught considered “just as bad as losing.”

While Vaught was desperately trying to inspire some life into his team in the locker room, Governor Barnett was pumping up the crowd of about 40,000.

The crowd, which had heard the news about Meredith, was unaware that Barnett had made a deal with President Kennedy to allow Meredith to enroll. The fans made daunting, racist chants about how Barnett should stop Meredith from enrolling.

Barnett felt the pressure building and caved in.

“I love Mississippi, and I love her people,” Barnett exclaimed over the P.A. system.

The roar of the crowd’s cheers and the popping sound of thousands of Confederate flags virtually shook downtown Jackson. Barnett basked in the glory of the crowd’s approval as he stood at midfield, and he walked off the field to call President Kennedy to inform him that the secret deal was off.

The Rebels’ second half was just as sloppy as the first, but the Rebels did muster another score and squeezed by the Wildcats with a 14-0 victory. Ole Miss’ win was hardly the most important thing to happen in Mississippi Memorial Stadium that day.

THE RIOT The majority of the Rebel football players returned to Oxford on Sunday, Sept. 30. As the bus rolled past the Lyceum, they witnessed the beginning of the riot.

A decent-sized crowd of students had gathered, waving confederate flags and starting a few chants. As the day passed, the decent-sized crowd

became a huge one, and the chants became deafening.

“When the crowd started growing out in front of the Lyceum, I went back to the dorm,” Weatherly said.

“I personally don’t recall any players taking part in the riot, although I did hear some stories.”

According to a few different accounts told later, some of the players did join the riot. Others watched from a distance.

Coach Vaught was actually called upon by university officials to try to calm the crowd. Instead, the coach decided to focus on his team and headed to Miller Hall, the football dormitory. “(Miller) was the refuge for the team,” Weatherly said. “We were able to all stay together under the watchful eye of the coaches.”

“Don’t go out,” Vaught preached to his players. He begged his players to remain focused.

The gunshots and explosions outside the confines of Miller rang out throughout the night, and Vaught’s leadership prevailed over the players’ temptations to join the war in the Circle.

Two people died that night, and about 200 more were injured.

THE ANSWER The walk from Miller Hall to the practice field the next morning was like walking through a battlefield.

Blood-stained sidewalks, broken bricks, shotgun shells and empty liquor bottles were only some of the obstacles keeping the team from getting to practice. Some players recalled that walk as one of the most difficult things they have ever had to do.

Others bit their tongue because they were proud that their classmates stood up the way they did. Regardless of the individual opinions of the players, they knew that Vaught was waiting for them to get to practice.

When they reached the practice field, they discovered thousands of tents that Army troops had set up in order to prepare for more riots.

The football schedule called for the homecoming game against undefeated Houston in just five days, despite rumors of the government shutting down the entire university.

“That next week was unsettling, to say the least,” 1962 running back Louis Guy

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We prepared just the same as every other season with the same goal as every other season—to win.

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1962 co-starting quarterback

said. “In addition to the military that was all over campus, we didn’t know where we were playing our game, if even at all, until Friday afternoon. Plus, we were playing another undefeated team. It’s incredible that Vaught kept our focus

that week.”

The “homecoming” game was eventually played in Jackson, and the Rebels prevailed 40-7. As the season went on, students at Ole Miss eventually became more fired up about the undefeated football team than Meredith.

The Rebels finished the season 10-0 and won a share of the national championship.

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THE AFTERMATH The same students who fired weapons or threw bricks at people on Sept.

30, 1962, cheered on the football team as the Rebels beat Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 1963.

Throughout the fall semester of 1962, the riot was the most important thing that happened at Ole Miss — despite the most successful football season in school history.

Today, generations later, descendants of people involved in the riot line the Walk of Champions, the hallowed path with an archway donated by members of the 1962 football team, to watch their Rebels make their way to Vaught-Hemingway stadium for football games.

The Ole Miss football team, like most other football teams, has many black players, as well as a few black coaches.

In just 50 years, the University of Mississippi has changed to a completely different place.

James Meredith changed the way blacks were perceived at Ole Miss.

Vaught’s team in 1962 not only remained focused through the hardest time in Ole Miss history, but they showed the world there was more on the school’s mind than racism and war.

Many argue that without that football team, there would have been much more violence and bloodshed.

No matter the argument, the success of that team will never be tarnished and will always be appreciated by the Ole Miss family.

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The Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

‘THE PERFECT SEASON’ The 1962 national championship football team will be commemorated several times throughout the day on Saturday beginning with a discussion panel at The Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics.

The panel will be moderated by ESPN writer and Oxford resident Wright Thompson, whose feature story “Ghosts of Mississippi,” the story about the 1962 football team and the integration of Ole Miss, garnered national attention.

WHO

Teammates Glynn Griffing, Louis Guy, Chuck Morris and Sam Owen

WHAT

Panel discussion and continental breakfast for attendees

WHEN

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Panel – 10:30 a.m.

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Free and open to the public

Meet and honor the 1962 team Griffing and Guy will sign autographs at the Rebel Fanfare across the street from VaughtHemingway stadium starting at 5:15 p.m.

Saturday.

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TOP: Louis Guy; BOTTOM: Glynn Griffing

Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines on the undergraduate and graduate level as well as professional education.

During the Ole Miss-Texas football game on Saturday night, the team will be honored on the field at halftime.

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Photos from the 1962 campus riot.

Phi Kappa Phi’s mission is “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”

The University of Mississippi Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi extends well wishes to all student scholars for this semester and this year.

Membership in the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is earned and by invitation only. Invitations are sent out in the fall and spring and formal initiation ceremonies are held in late fall and late spring each year.

The Ole Miss Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi wishes our returning scholars and future initiates great success this academic year!

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I can’t tell you how blessed I feel; I just thank God.

said. “She is a wonderful person, and I think she is a great representative of the university.”

Pearson said it was great for people to see what Ole Miss is really about despite racial stereotypes, especially with the upcoming anniversary of integration.

“It couldn’t have come at a better time for Ole Miss,” she said.

Pearson received 1,477 votes, compared to Ashleigh Davis’ 1,387.

The race for Colonel Reb was also close. Harrision won with 58.57 percent of the vote with a total number of 1,687 votes, to Doug Odom’s 41.42 percent and 1,193 votes.

Both Pearson and Harrision celebrated when the final votes were relayed to the candidates and spectators.

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“I’m really thankful for all the help I received from everyone,” Harrison said.

“This is something I wanted to do for a while now, and I’m just happy it came out successful.”

Pearson took a step back and thanked those most important to her.

“I can’t tell you how blessed I feel; I just thank God,” Pearson said. “We pulled through and campaigned to the final minute.”

“Ole Miss, get ready,” she added. “We just changed the face.”

Eric Holder, the 82nd U.S. Attorney General, will be the guest speaker at the Honors College fall convocation on Sept. 27 at the Ford Center.

BY GRANT BEEBE sgbeebe@go.olemiss.edu

Ole Miss faculty and students are rushing to snag tickets to hear U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speak at the Honors College fall convocation.

Holder will speak at 7:30 p.m Sept. 27 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts.

The event is free and open to the public, but a ticket is required for entry and can be picked up at the university box office.

Out of 1200 tickets available for distribution, 700 were reserved for Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College students and 200 were reserved for faculty.

Zach Newton, sophomore double major in international studies and public policy leadership, is on the Hon-

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

ors Senate. He has already picked up his ticket and is looking forward to hearing the attorney general speak.

“I’m really excited to go listen to Eric Holder,” he said. “The last really big name as far as government officials to come speak was Colin Powell.”

All of the Honors College tickets were distributed, Douglas Sullivan-Gonzales, dean of the Honors College, said in a newsletter sent to students Wednesday.

“The Honors College tries to set the debate on campus — with our students, with our faculty and with our convocations,” Sullivan-Gonzales said. “This year represents the 50th year of integration.

It is an incredible civic moment to understand how our nation has reconciled itself

to opportunity.”

Holder is expected to address students for 25 minutes and spend the majority of his time answering questions and engaging students in discussion.

Sullivan-Gonzales said this opportunity will be a “national moment” with 20 state attorney generals expected to be in attendance, along with other public officials.

JoAnn Edwards, speech professor and director of forensics, believes Eric Holder’s presence at the university will “extend learning beyond the classroom.”

“To be in the room with such individuals, and then to engage them in conversation, at this time in history surely is a prime educational opportunity,” she said.

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ious for the matchup.

“I’m amazed our fans are so excited about this game because it’s been a hard ticket,” Brown said. “We’ve got so many people calling and asking, and trying to find extra tickets. Ole Miss people are excited about it. (Former Ole Miss quarterback) Archie Manning is a great friend of ours. Some of our boosters and Archie got together to make this game happen. So it’s a fun game. Glad that both teams are undefeated. And it will be the toughest test we’ve had to this point.”

Ole Mis and Texas have squared off six previous times with the Longhorns holding a 5-1 advantage in the all-time series. The lone Ole Miss win came in the 1958 Sugar Bowl when the Rebels won 39-7.

Saturday’s meeting is the first in Oxford between the two schools.

The Longhorns have an abundance of talent around, but the defense in particular is the strength of the team. Texas is ranked 26th in the nation in total defense (293.0 ypg) and is led by defensive ends Jackson Jeffcoat and Alex Okafor.

Ole Miss sophomore quarterback Bo Wallace will have to keep tabs on Jeffcoat and Okafor, who have each recorded a sack so far this season. Wallace has thrown for 438 yards and five touchdowns with an interception in two games this season and has led a Rebel offense that ranks sixth in the nation in pass efficiency, ninth in rushing (282.5 ypg) and 10th in total offense (551.5 ypg).

Freeze’s offense has done well so far, but it will get its first SEC-like test on Saturday.

However, Texas defensive coordinator Manny Diaz, who is familiar with Ole Miss from his coaching days at Mississippi State, knows his defense will have to make multiple adjustments during the contest.

“You’re chasing ghosts a lit-

in the nation on his football team. He certainly doesn’t mind bringing pressure and bringing it from a lot of different places.”

On defense, Ole Miss ranks first in the SEC with 20 tackles for loss and nine sacks. The defense will have their hands full with the Texas offense led by sophomore quarterback David Ash, who is 36-of-49 on the year with 377 yards and three touchdowns. On the ground, Texas sophomore running backs Joe Bergeron and Malcolm Brown are a load, each averaging over six yards per carry.

“We just have to be ready when the ball is snapped,” defensive line coach Chris Kiffin said. “They’re going to do a lot

of stuff pre-snap to mess with the (defensive backs’) and linebackers’ eyes. It’s just getting our cleats in the ground and getting ready for that ball to be snapped.

“Once it’s snapped, that offensive line isn’t giving us anything we haven’t seen. It’s the same blocking scheme we see week in and week out. It’s just the stuff pre-snap that’s going to mess up the back end guys.

We’ve showed them everything they’ve got, and hopefully, they respond well.”

Kiffin said there’s a different feeling around the football facilities this week with the talk of Saturday’s game looming around campus. It’s a huge opportunity for the Rebels to get a marquee win on a national

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“It’s a chance to show people that this is a completely different team,” redshirt freshman linebacker Denzel Nkemdiche said. “And (show them) that Ole Miss football has been brought back to life.”

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tle bit,” Diaz said. “It can drive you a little crazy. You don’t know what they saw from that other team. You don’t know what their personnel was like.

They have the same issues.

Part of playing at this time of year is being able to adjust.”

Those adjustments will also be made on the offensive side of the ball. Freeze is familiar with Diaz’s defense having faced him at Middle Tennessee, and he knows his offense will have to be ready to see blitzes.

“Probably plays more man now that he’s at Texas than he did when he was at Middle Tennessee,” Freeze said. “It probably has a lot to do with the fact that he has some of the best corners and skill guys

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Four Downs: Ole Miss Rebels vs. Texas Longhorns In this week’s edition of a Four Downs, The Daily Mississippian football beat writers Bennett Hipp and Matt Sigler, sports editor David Collier and managing editor Austin Miller answer four questions regarding the week’s matchup.

1. Do you agree with the Trae Elston suspension?

Bennett Hipp (@bennetthipp): No, I don’t. I’m completely for player safety, but Elston’s hit wasn’t a dirty hit and didn’t have any ill intent behind it. One of the rules cited by the SEC said that a play cannot “target or initiate contact with the crown of the helmet,” but the crown of Elston’s helmet wasn’t involved in the hit. The ruling seems like a very arbitrary decision in re-

sponse to the tragic play in the Tulane-Tulsa game.

I’m all for suspending players who commit dangerous hits, but this clearly was nothing more than a player making a play. Big hit? Yes. Flagrant and suspendable hit? Absolutely not.

Matt Sigler (@SigNewton_2): Still on the fence about it. The SEC is looking out for the safety of players, which I agree with. However, I felt the hit didn’t deserve such a strict penalty.

David Collier (@DavidLCollier): I’ve watched the replay several times, and I still don’t think it’s a suspendable hit. In my opinion, a player should not be suspended if he is not flagged on the play. I’m for player’s safety, but the rulings are not consistent from play to play.

Austin Miller (@austinkmiller): Do I under-

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Hipp: I expect it to be a lot like last week’s, to be honest. Ole Miss slowed down the tempo a little bit against UTEP, and doing the same against Texas makes sense as the Longhorns have much better quality depth than the Rebels. I expect a lot of quick passes and draws to combat the pass rush of Jackson Jeffcoat and Alex Okafor, with some trick plays and shots down the field mixed in. Establishing the running game will be key.

Sigler: I think Ole Miss will have to scheme more than they did the past two weeks. The overall speed of Texas is a tricky challenge and will force the Rebels to come up with ways to counter it. Thus, I think you will see a different game plan but with the foundation already set up by the basic offense.

Collier: Yes, to an extent.

The basic play-calling should be similar to the first two weeks, but I look for Hugh Freeze to open things up a little bit to keep the talented Longhorn defense guessing.

As far as tempo goes, I think Freeze will slow it down for the most part due to depth issues, but he will speed up the tempo on a couple of drives to see how successful it could be.

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turnovers. And to force Texas quarterback David Ash and the passing game to make plays.

3. Who wins the quarterback battle between Ole Miss’ Bo Wallace and Texas’ David Ash?

Hipp: Ash has been asked to manage the game, as only two Texas pass plays have gone for more than 20 yards.

I assume that will continue as the Longhorns rely heavily on running backs Joe Bergeron and Malcolm Brown.

Wallace will be relied on to produce the bigger plays

and create more offense, but could have the lower completion percentage and higher turnover number against the very good Texas defense compared to Ash. Overall, I’ll say Wallace has a slightly better performance.

Sigler: I’ll give the edge to Bo. So far he has executed Freeze’s plans well, and I think he will do the same come Saturday. However, it will be a tough challenge this week being up against a toptier defense.

Collier: Bo Wallace will have the better game because he will have more opportunities. If Ole Miss wins, it will be because Wallace had a huge game. With David Ash taking snaps for Texas, it provides a great chance for the Rebel defense to cause some turnovers. Ash doesn’t provide a ton of experience, and a rowdy crowd could get in his head.

Miller: Ole Miss needs Bo Wallace to win this battle to win the game. He’s the team’s leading passer and rusher, and Texas will get af-

ter the quarterback all game long. He has to make plays with arm or his feet.

For Texas, quarterback play is the biggest question mark, along with the kicking game.

And this is only Ash’s second career road game as a starter.

4. Other than quarterback play, what is the key to the game?

Hipp: I mentioned it earlier, but a key matchup will be Texas’ defensive ends against the Ole Miss offensive tackles. Left tackle Emmanuel McCray and right tackle Pierce Burton will have their hands full with Jeffcoat and Okafor, who are two of the top ends in the country. The Texas defense under Manny Diaz is very aggressive blitz-

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That’s a lot of pressure for first-year offensive tackles Emmanuel McCray and Pierce Burton. Look for a lot of screens, draw plays and running backs and tight ends helping out in pass protection.

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wise, but if they are able to generate pressure with just the front four, it’ll be a long day for Ole Miss. McCray and Burton will tasked on preventing the two ends from disrupting Wallace’s timing on throws and the offense in general.

Sigler: Being able to deal with the speed of Texas. The Longhorns have good allaround speed at every position and will force Ole Miss to deal with something that they haven’t this year.

Collier: The game will be won in the trenches. If the Ole Miss defensive line can stop the powerful Texas ground game and the offensive line can give Wallace enough time to get throws off, the Rebels will be in the game.

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Hipp’s Tips: Ole Miss vs. Texas In this week’s installment, The Daily Mississippian football beat writer Bennett Hipp will give keys to the week’s matchup.

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he has developed since last season.

Third-Down Efficiency Defensively, Ole Miss ranks 76th in the country in opponent third-down conversion percentage (40 percent).

On the other side of the ball, offensively, Texas ranks fifth in third-down conversion percentage (61.29 percent) through two games.

Ole Miss needs to keep Texas out of third-and-short situations, forcing Ash to pass and keep the ball out of the hands of bulky running backs Joe Bergeron (6-foot1, 230 pounds) and Malcolm Brown (6-foot, 223 pounds)

in short-yardage situations.

Big 12 an Advantage for Texas?

Unlike Central Arkansas and UTEP, Texas will come in having a better handle on what Ole Miss is going to run and look like offensively.

The Big 12 is filled with teams who stay in the shotgun extensively, use motion and multiple formations and get the ball to playmakers using bubble screens and similar plays.

The difference will be how Texas handles the small wrinkles that make Freeze’s offense different from what Texas has already seen. Also, how much of the offense has Freeze held back for Texas?

Ole Miss’ offense may not be foreign to Texas, but if there’s an early score because the Longhorns are trying to adjust to a wrinkle, it could make a big difference.

Empty the Bag Outside of a blowout, Ole Miss really can do no wrong Saturday.

With a sellout crowd, primetime ESPN game and tons of recruits in town, this is Freeze’s first big chance to showcase Ole Miss to the country and show that the football program is on the way back up after two years at the bottom.

For the Rebels, it’s a free chance to take a shot at knocking off a perennial power and pulling off a pretty large upset.

Because of all that, Ole Miss would do well to pull out all the stops. Aggressive offensive play-calling, trick plays, creative blitz packages, etc., all make sense to use against Texas.

Win or lose, it will show that there is plenty of playing time available in Oxford, and that it can be achieved in an aggressive, fun-to-play system on both sides of the ball.

In a rebuilding season, Ole Miss has nothing to lose by emptying the bag of tricks and taking its best shot at Texas.

For continuing coverage of Ole Miss football, follow @thedm_ sports and @bennetthipp on Twitter.

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Test Ash Early Texas quarterback David Ash has put up solid numbers during the first two games, but he hasn’t been able to affect the game by throwing downfield. The Longhorns have had only two pass plays go for more than 20 yards. Ash, who is only a sophomore, could be on edge early on the road in what promises to be a raucous environment. Disguising coverages or creative blitzes early on could rattle Ash and create an early turnover.

How Ash holds up against a defense that is better than Wyoming or New Mexico will begin to show how much

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