The Daily Mississippian - November 3, 2015

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Volume 104, No. 51

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William Hunt, 4, traded candy for cash at Lee Family & Cosmetic Dentistry’s Candy Buyback program, where children sold their excess Halloween candy to the dentistry for a dollar a pound. The candy will be shipped to troops overseas.

MAGGIE MCDANIEL

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For four years, the Oxford community has contributed to a sweet cause that has increased in popularity over time. Lee Family & Cosmetic Dentistry hosted its fourth annual “Candy Buy Back” at its office in Oxford on Monday.

The purpose of the event is to buy candy back from trick or treaters and send the donated candy to troops overseas.

Every year, Lee Dentistry looks

forward to their annual candy buyback after Halloween weekend. The event is under the national organization “Operation Gratitude,” which sends care packages to troops overseas.

This year, Lee Dentistry prepared for the event by setting up tables, chairs and boxes for candy and waiting patiently for children to get out of school and come with their parents to drop off candy at the office.

For every pound of candy, the donor received one dollar and a

goodie bag with a toothbrush and other surprises.

Lee dentistry became involved in the national organization because they wanted to help the troops in any way they could. According to front desk hygiene coordinator Buffie Jordan, each year the event becomes more and more popular. Jordan said her favorite part about the event is seeing kids make donations to U.S. troops.

“They get so excited knowing that they get to help someone or give something of themselves and

pass it along to the troops,” Jordan said. “I know that makes them feel really good. It makes me feel good to see them excited about it.”

Last year, the office raised 80 pounds of candy, and Jordan hopes to see them raise 100 this year.

Cadet Catherine Bean, senior ROTC member at the University of Mississippi, sat at the donation table representing the Halloween candy buyback. Bean said she

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State residents can vote in Mississippi’s 2015 General Election from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. Offices up for election this year include governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general and state senators and representatives.

Voters are required to present photo identification to vote in person. To find a voter booth near you, visit lafayettecoms.com.

The ballot will also feature Initiative Measure No. 42 and Alternative Measure No. 42a, concerning the state mechanisms for support and maintenance of free public schools.

The initiative is the sixth to be placed on the ballot since the initiative right was added to the state constitution in 1992.

The initiative would amend Section 201 of the Mississippi Constitution to require that the State provide an adequate and efficient system of free public schools. This concept was introduced by the Mississippi Adequate Education Program in 1997. This initiative would shift funding decisions from the Legislature to the court system.

The alternative measure is the first provided by the legislature since the adoption of the initiative system in Mississippi, according to the Clarion-Ledger.

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The Meek School of Journalism and New Media is sponsoring its first Ole Miss New Media Data Day, where senior executives from Facebook and LinkedIn will discuss data and how it is used in today’s technology-driven world.

Data Day will be a day-long event beginning at 9:30 a.m., with a repeat performance of the sessions at 1 p.m., Thursday in the Overby Center auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Data Day is aiming to answer questions on consumer privacy, how analytics will impact careers in data-related fields, how companies and individuals can use data to do better at business and more.

With each passing day, digital media becomes more a part of our lives, and businesses aided by data are seizing the opportunity to reach and track audiences like never before.

Eric Schnabel is a director at Facebook Creative Shop.

“In the last 10 years, there’s

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been a technical revolution that [has] changed human behavior and media consumption,” Schnabel said.

Schnabel helps run a team at Facebook which consists of creative directors and strategists who work with clients to build campaigns on Facebook and Instagram.

“Facebook has 1.6 billion people and Instagram has 400 million,” Schnabel said. “Both platforms are only as valuable as their ability to show people content that they like. We use the things that people choose to watch, share, like and comment on to figure out what’s

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This misrepresentation of church and state HOLLY BAER

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On Thursday, Oct. 29, the city of Collins received a letter of complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation in regards to Christian statues in a publicly maintained and operated park.

I spent the first 12 years of my life living in Collins, and the vast majority of my maternal family still lives in the town.

A quick view into the dreaded comment section of the local news channel shows horrendous vitriol from the mouths of those who love Jesus and say they are his warriors.

They say: “Those nonbelievers need a city of their own to move to. Far far away from us.” With a rousing agreement: “They will have their own city, it’s called HELL.” They say: “I think the city THE DAILY

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should take the complainer down... So no, leave it up..And GOD Bless AMERICA.” They say: “how disgusting whoever filed this complaint should be run out of wherever they normally stay go to some country where there are other like-minded people and leave our country and our faith alone.”

From the hellish comment section, you’d think that Mississippi is the center of a Godfilled theocracy. In the past few months, my former high school received complaints because of an anti-atheist rant by a history teacher, and my former school district received a cease and desist letter regarding marching band music.

Each of these things were met with loud angry protests from Christians, saying that this was clearly discrimination. The reality is much simpler.

For the first time, Christians

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are being required to follow the law, and they are no longer allowed to show preferential treatment to Christianity.

Being a non-believer in Mississippi is rough. We’re constantly being told that Christianity is under attack while simultaneously being treated as broken people by some members of the church. We’re told that Christianity is the single most important thing, while one of the most Christian states has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy, new HIV infections and gonorrhea and chlamydia infections.

This isn’t meant to bash Christianity or Christians in general.

Many Christians are good, kind people who work very hard to make the world a better place.

But many Christians say awful things about anyone who doesn’t believe. Many Christians take complaints about legal violations as personal attacks on

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Jesus. Some Christians believe an angry mob will solve any problems by eliminating those complaining.

Unfortunately, these people are just as Christian as the good people. Sometimes, the good Christians will say that these cruel people aren’t really Christians, but that isn’t fair.

We don’t get to label them “non-Christians” just because they’re mean. Even if good people could write them off as non-Christians, that continues the cycle that bad people can’t be Christian, and that all non-believers have to be corrupt and bad.

As a non-believer, I’m not convinced. If Mississippi is a hotbed of religious beauty, then it makes religion look even less appealing.

Holly Baer is a senior religious studies major from Flowood.

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TUPELO (AP) — A man who’s known for flying a 4-foot-long Mississippi state flag on his car has been accused of bombing a WalMart because the chain stopped selling the flag, the police chief said Monday.

The explosive made a loud bang but did no damage when it was thrown early Sunday into the 24hour Wal-Mart in Tupelo, Police Chief Bart Aguirre said Monday.

He said bomb technicians reported that the package held enough explosive to damage the store if it had been assembled differently.

Marshall E. Leonard of Tupelo, a northeast Mississippi city of 34,500, was jailed on a charge of detonating an explosive, and police were searching his car and home, Aguirre said.

Wal-Mart is among retailers that stopped selling merchandise bearing reproductions of the Confederate battle flag — which makes up the upper left section of the Mississippi state flag — after the June 17 killing of nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

“He’s a strong supporter of keeping that flag flying. ... This is his way of bringing attention to that,” Aguirre said.

Leonard did not yet have an attorney who could comment Monday, Aguirre said. His bond hearing probably will be held Tuesday, and the judge will appoint an attorney if Leonard, who lives alone and has no job, cannot afford one, the police chief said.

Aguirre says Leonard allegedly lit a newspaper-wrapped package and threw it into the store around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

“An employee was sitting the vestibule taking a break. He told the employee to run — that he was going to blow the place up. He throws this package into the front entrance of Wal-Mart. He flees and the employee flees,” Aguirre said.

Leonard was arrested about 2 a.m. for running a red light near the Wal-Mart, Aguirre said.

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thinks the event is brilliant and knows that the soldiers are thankful for the donations.

“This is a chance for them to feel that they are back at home,” Bean said. “It’s a little taste of home with these sweets.”

Bean said she may only be a volunteer for the event, but if she were deployed overseas, she would be appreciative of the Oxford community.

“I am so thankful that we have people in this community to spend the time and donate towards the military,” Bean said.

Ole Miss School of Education professor Joel Amidon has taken his three children to the Halloween buyback for years.

“Anytime that we can have our kids contributing and helping out others is something we want to embrace,” Amidon said.

“I am happy that Doctor Lee keeps doing it ever year, and it probably keeps our kids a little healthier too.”

Lee Family & Cosmetic Dentistry are still accepting candy donations.

important to them and what they may want to see.”

Schnabel said with the emergence of new digital media and data mining, businesses no longer have to develop a single message that can be served in the same way to as many people as possible.

The data gathered on consumers allows the businesses to better customize content for individuals.

Sean Callahan will be representing LinkedIn at Data Day. He is senior manager of content marketing at LinkedIn. Callahan uses data to assist marketers in reaching the right audience.

“Using LinkedIn data, these marketers can target their messages by job title, by location, company name, company size and a host of other demographics,” Callahan said. “The content is so relevant that it often doesn’t seem like our members are being marketed to, because the content delivers information they

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Sean Callahan (right) Eric Schnabel (left) will speak at Data Day Thursday. want.”

Callahan said he believes the modern marketer must possess not only creative skills, but also a myriad of data-driven and analytical abilities – a new marketing landscape that Mad Men’s Don Draper wouldn’t recognize.

“Ideas remain important, but ideas that work and generate results are more important. In the digital world you can tell fairly easily and fairly quickly what’s working–and what’s not,” Callahan said.

“A marketer doesn’t merely come up with ideas and hope that they work. We now come up with ideas and test them to

prove that they work.”

With simple data sets – like those from an email blast – available to every company, no matter the size or industry, there is unprecedented access to amazing amounts of data that can help companies determine who their best customers are and how to reach them.

“Data can provide great insight into how customers are behaving, what kind of messages they respond to, and how well marketing is working,” Callahan said. “The companies that put it to work, those are the ones that are going to thrive.”

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Movie Review: ‘Bridge of Spies’ MARY MOSES HITT mhitt@go.olemiss.edu

RATING: A

“Bridge of Spies” earns the three-word description “audience satisfaction guaranteed.” The film screams mainstream entertainment with its exploration of America as the place that out-negotiates Communist countries and gives even a Soviet spy a fair trial. Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg (“Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan”) manages to turn the Cold War into a “feel good” movie, but his dramatization of this tense period of American history has plenty of moral undertones to add pleasant layers of depth to the film.

“Bridge of Spies” marks the fourth collaboration for Spielberg and Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks (“Forrest Gump,” “Philadelphia”) and is completed with a script by Oscar-winning screenwriters the Coen brothers (“Fargo,” “No Country for Old Men”), which should be satisfaction

enough for audiences to trust the execution of this film.

Given his filmmaking history, Spielberg’s newest project unsurprisingly tackles humanistic issues while using war as the backdrop. However, the battle around which “Bridge of Spies” centers is much different than those seen in “War Horse” and “Saving Private Ryan.” The United States of the ‘60s is engaged in an information war with the Soviet Union. Trust is hard to come by, and the fear of nuclear weapons is looming over both countries.

The film opens in a small, grungy apartment, where Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is painting a self-portrait. The expertly directed “chase” sequence that follows is easily forgotten after experiencing the excitement of the rest of the movie, but it evokes an eerie feeling of violation from the presence of spies brought to our turf that should not be forgotten.

This Cold War drama is based on the life of James B. Donovan

(Tom Hanks), a straight-arrow American lawyer whom the government approaches with an inglorious request. Washington wants Donovan to be the defense lawyer for the now-captured Rudolf Abel. America is supposed to give every person a right to a fair trail, but given the time period and situation, it only wants the semblance of this right for Abel because national security is at stake.

Donovan refuses to be a governmental puppet, however; he determinedly does his duty to his country as a lawyer and fights for the Constitution to be upheld. He insists that the judge see that if the United States executes a Russian on American soil, facing repercussions from the Soviet Union might be far worse than those of the American public if Abel is imprisoned. While his actions are honorable, Donovan’s defense of Abel makes him the most hated man in America, which quickly escalates to his and his family’s receiving hate mail and death threats.

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Throughout the film, Donovan asks Abel with the deep concern, “Aren’t you worried?”— to which Abel quizzically responds “Would it help?” The cool nature of Abel always seemed to reaffirm Donovan in his purpose and illustrate the deep connection between these two characters and the chemistry between the actors.

The virtuous character of James Donovan provides Hanks with the perfect opportunity to tap into his “Catch Me if You Can” acting notes and deliver a powerful and thought-provoking performance.

This type of character takes tal-

ent to portray, but its frequent appearance in Hollywood only complements the unique, memorable character of Rudolf Abel.

Mark Rylance’s performance as the calm, philosophical spy from Russia with a British accent who was more concerned with his artwork than his pending execution, stole the show.

The climax of the movie is the negotiation of the prisoner exchange of Abel for U.S. pilot Gary Powers (Austin Stowell). Russia and the U.S. are forced to find a

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continued from page 4 way to agree on something and who better to handle these negotiations than Donovan himself. To make the task even more daunting, Donovan must travel to the Russian Embassy in East Berlin to make the deal, where the Soviet Union and Berlin were engaged in a battle of their own. The agonizingly tense negotiations that took place show the intense lack of trust between the nations, as these men seemed to calculate and recalculate how much information the each country knew about the other.

When Donovan finds out about the wrongful German imprisonment of American student Frederic Pryor (Will Rogers), he goes against the CIA’s wishes and insists on a two-for-one prisoner exchange, or the U.S. will make no deal at all. Objections of the unfairness of this trade are raised from both the German Democratic Republic and Russia, but even spending time in a German prison doesn’t dissuade Donovan from his mission. The following dawn the tension is thick on the so-called “Bridge of Spies,” designated as the place for the prisoner exchange, and the platform where these three countries will finally see if they can trust each other or if patriotism will lead only to betrayal.

Whiskey Meyers bring tour to Proud Larry’s DIXON STONE

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East Texas band Whiskey Myers will make their debut in Oxford at 9 p.m. Wednesday at Proud Larry’s.

Self-described “rock n’ roll with a little bit of country twang,” Whiskey Myers is strongly reminiscent of Lynyrd Skynyrd or the Allman Brothers in their sound and style approach.

“When writing, we revert back to what we’ve been taught and how we grew up,” bassist Gary Brown said. “We try to throw in our values and make something relatable.”

Whiskey Myers currently has three albums out—“Road of Life,” “Firewater” and “Early Morning Shakes.” The band stays loyal to its east Texas roots, which is prominent throughout all three albums and can be easily heard in “Ballad Of A Southern Man” or “Lonely East TX Nights.” The soft and familiar country lilt heard throughout the songs blends seamlessly with the power and vitality of classic rock.

Brown said he feels the band has grown rhythmically, forming its current sound organically throughout their six-year stint as a group.

“Our style has matured since the ‘Firewater’ record, and certainly since the ‘Road of Life’ record,” Brown said. “The songwriting and energy is a little bit more meaningful than it has been before. The idea is to always grow as musicians and continually get better as a group.”

The band comprises five members—Brown, lead vocalist Cody Cannon, lead guitarist Cody Tate, rhythm and lead guitarist John Jeffers, and drummer Jeff Hogg.

“We all grew up together,” Brown said. “We’re two sets of cousins. Some of us have been friends since we were 2 or 3 years old.”

Whiskey Myers’ message of “honest music” and “relatable characters and situations” has received nods from major publications such as “Rolling Stone” and “The New York Times”, and their tours have ranged from the East to West Coast and all throughout Europe. Oxford is third on the band’s current 26-stop tour, reaching from the deep South all the way to the United Kingdom. Brown said he believes the group accomplishes a series of goals when on a tour of this scale.

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ready have,” he said. “It also gives us a chance to hone our craft as group. That’s kind of what a tour is to us, being out there and working on what we do best.”

When asked where the group plans to be as a performing band in the coming years, Brown leaves a certain amount of ambiguity in his predictions.

“I’ve pretty much given up on trying to predict what we’re going to do. It always changes. As a goal for our band, we’re just trying to get our name and sound out there as much as we can, and hopefully we can continue to do so for as

long as possible.”

Brown did reveal the group had plans to begin work on their fourth album in the coming months.

“We’ll be going into the studio in the beginning of December and hopefully coming out with a new record in the first half of next year.”

Fans can expect a powerful and soulful performance from Whiskey Myers on Wednesday.

“We’ll be high energy. They’ll be out of their seats, moving around.

Just an overall rockin’ good time.”

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Earlier this year, the Rebels went on the road and defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide.

They continued their run of Alabama dominance, defeating Auburn this past Saturday.

It was the first time Ole Miss has beaten both schools in the same season since 2003.

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like they were sleep-walking and did not take their opponent too seriously.

The loss to Memphis seemed to be a much-needed jolt of caffeine. With Laremy Tunsil back on the offensive line and the “landshark” defense playing up to its potential, the ultimate goal of getting to Atlanta for the SEC championship game is still very much alive.

The Rebels must win out in order to make the Atlanta dream a reality. As it looks right now, the Rebels are going to be favored by Vegas in every remaining game. The only game where the Rebels could possibly be an underdog is against LSU at home on Nov. 21.

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Rebel defense looks forward to Tony Conner’s return BRIAN RIPPEE

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After the loss to Memphis, reality set in for Ole Miss— particularly for their defense.

After missing 30 tackles and allowing 495 yards of total offense, the “landshark” defense simply was not getting the job done. The defense had to be better if this team was to have a chance to survive their remaining SEC schedule.

Fortunately for the Rebels, they have. The defensive resurgence is a big factor in the Rebels adding back to back conference wins and remaining in good position to win the SEC west.

“We really got our confidence back,” Mike Hilton, senior safety, said. “The senior leadership has really started to take over, and making sure guys are motivated and focused on what we’re trying to achieve.”

Hilton had to move to the Huskie, a lynchpin position in the Rebel defensive scheme, in wake of Tony Conner’s absence.

“That Huskie position is kind of like a star position,” Trae Elston, senior safety, Tony Conner, number 12, will return to the defensive line in Saturday’s game against Arkansas after a four-game absence. said. “You’ve got to have in- explosive plays. So, that is recent weeks, and as a result, to their regular position.

“It will be a big plus, a lot stincts in general as a player. the good and the bad about has been able to help out on You get to do a lot. You get the truth of the game,” Freeze the defensive side of the ball a of guys want Tony back of to play, man. You get to play said. “But on 66 plays we little more, a possible reason course. He is a big play guy for were very good on the defen- for the improvement, espe- us,” Hilton said. “We know he zone, and you get to blitz.” cially on critical downs.

The Ole Miss defense held sive side.”

Freeze stressed the need to “Schematically, we’ve realeach of their last two opponents to under 20 points. eliminate the number of big ly just cut down a lot. I startIt has also forced opposing plays allowed but was pleased ed giving some more of the quarterbacks to complete un- with the defensive perfor- play calling duties to Dan so I could see if I could assist der 43 percent of their passes mance as a whole.

Getting off of the field on on the other side, and we just in the two-game stretch, a testament to an improvement in third down had been the de- started cutting down,” Freeze fense’s biggest issue this year, said. “Making sure our kids the secondary.

Auburn ran 73 plays on Sat- but that was not the case on understood this is exactly urday, and with the exception Saturday as the Auburn of- what we want to run.”

Looking forward, the Rebof a few explosive plays, the fense was 2-15 on third down and were 0-2 on fourth down. els expect a boost with the defense was dominant.

Ole Miss head coach Hugh addition of Conner, and many “66 of those plays we held a very good football team to Freeze has given up some of members of the Rebels sec170 yards and gave up seven his play calling duties in the ondary will be able to return

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is hungry to get back out here, and hopefully he will go this week and it will just give us more confidence.”

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Freeze confident in recent play in preparing for Arkansas CODY THOMASON

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The road woes that plagued the Rebels against Florida and Memphis seem to have been fixed with great defensive games in back-to-back weeks against Texas A&M and Saturday at Auburn, which Ole Miss won 27-19.

“I was real proud of our kids and our staff, going out and handling a hostile environment pretty well,” Hugh Freeze, head coach, said. “Defensively, 73 total plays, 66 of those plays we held a very good football team to 170 yards. We gave up seven explosive plays. That is the good and the bad of the game.”

Recently, Freeze approached his offensive plan differently in a move that has allowed him to focus more on the defense and help lead to its improvement on third down. Co-offensive coordinator Dan Werner called the majority of the plays Saturday, and it seemed to pay off for the

offense. The Rebels put up 29 points on 558 total yards of offense as a result.

“I started giving a lot of the (offensive) play calling duties to Dan (Werner) so I can go and see if I can assist on the other side,” Freeze said. “We started doing that and now we have played really great defense these last two weeks. Dave (Wommack) and his staff have done a great job planning, and our kids have executed most of the time.”

Freeze still has a say in the some of the play-calling, which he reiterated Saturday after the game and at the weekly presser Monday. Whenever Freeze feels like a play needs to be called, Freeze can interject and make his call.

“You judge where your team is at, and see where you can assist the most,” Freeze said. “I just felt like I needed to spend a lot more time with our team. It always has been a joint effort. I am involved still. These are the

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Head Coach Hugh Freeze reviews the Auburn game with media at Tuesday’s press conference.

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packages that we are carrying.”

Taking the reigns of the offensive play-calling has taken up a good portion of Freeze’s preparation with the team during practices. Now that he and Werner split the play-calling, the head coach of the Rebels can now focus on other aspects of the game and make sure his team has the proper intensity and preparations come game time.

“Something that is a disadvantage with the defense is when I go to defense, I am involved with that. That’s when they are talking about the next

series,” Freeze said. “I’m on the defensive channel. They know the packages. They know what we like in those packages and we’ll rank them. It has been beneficial thus far.”

Last year’s Arkansas game was the Rebels’ worst performance of the regular season. The team was battling injuries and ended up losing 30-0, and Freeze is ready for another shot at the Razorbacks.

“I’m a competitor and an offensive coach. As soon as we were able to turn our attention from Auburn, that was on my mind,” Freeze said. “I like get-

ting another shot at that. It motivates me.”

Although Arkansas had a disappointing start to their season, going 4-4 with losses to to Toledo and Texas Tech, Freeze said the Razorbacks tend to get better as the season goes on and this year was no exception.

“It will be an SEC fistfight.

It will be a physical game,” Freeze said. “They can control the clock, and they have good schemes on both sides. We have a big test ahead of us. It’ll be a close, physical battle on Saturday.”

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