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Students compare perception of flag in moderated discussion CLARA TURNAGE
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A dozen students gathered in room 404 of the Student Union Thursday for a town hall-style conversation on the Mississippi state flag. No one raised his or her voice, no one spoke angrily; it was a quiet discussion about individual perceptions, and it was just what Ole Miss needed, Eloise Tyner said. Tyner is a member of the committee on inclusion and cross-cultural engagement and deputy attorney general of constitution and code for the Associated Student Body, who helped organize and moderate the event. “I think these conversations are important so that everybody with every point of view still feels welcome in the Ole Miss family,” Tyner said. Tyner said she had the idea for the meeting in her Southern politics class when her professor said the decision the University made in removing the flag might lose momentum or even increase division between students if campus unity is not preserved. “I wanted it to be an intimate setting,” Tyner said. “We just came from a contentious debate where people were so focused on convincing each other that they weren’t focused on hearing each other. It’s integral for an
Ole Miss family like ours that we continue to handle this like family. We talk to each other. We really care about what the other person has to say, especially if they believe something different from what I do.” Tyner said continuing this discourse at the individual level is crucial for maintaining the unity on which the University prides itself. “I believe these conversations, especially between people who disagree, are so important,” Tyner said. “Or else you’re going to have embitterment and entrenchment and people turning away from their family.” Tyner asked Marvin King, associate professor of American politics, to moderate the discussion. King asked the students to speak in their groups on certain topics surrounding the state flag - such when the flag became pertinent to him or her and how each person felt when student governments voted to remove the flag from campus. The questions highlighted how differences in culture, ingrained beliefs and race can change the meaning of symbols to individuals – specifically the Confederate symbol in the Mississippi state flag. After each topic, students had the
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Rebels host NCAA tournament tonight COLLIN BRISTER
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The Rebels soccer team will take on the Murray State Racers at 7:30 p.m. today at the Ole Miss Soccer Stadium in an NCAA tournament contest. The Rebels are 13-5-2 on the season and have defeated ranked teams such as Texas A&M, South Carolina and Auburn. The Rebels are coming into the NCAA tournament on a two-game losing streak, but have won five of the previous seven. If the Rebels were to win, they would take on the winner of twoseed Clemson and 15-seed Fur-
man. If the Rebels were to face Clemson, they would travel to South Carolina to take on the Tigers, but if Furman upsets the Tigers, they would host Furman with a win. The Rebels share the bracket with North Carolina, who has garnered 22 national championships in program history with the most recent coming in 2012.
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Above: Dominique Scott speaks in a small group at Thursday’s event. Below: Eloise Tyner sticks Post Its of different opinions on the wall during the moderated discussion.
UM annual Brain Brawl this weekend ALICE MCKELVEY
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High school students from across the Southeast will be competing in Ole Miss’s annual Brain Brawl this Saturday. Forty-two teams from Mississippi and its neighboring states will partake in a quiz bowl tournament to test their knowledge on topics such as history, science, literature and popular culture. “Brain Brawl is one of those competitions where anything can happen,” Matthew DeLoach, director of academic competitions, said. “A
lot of these teams are young, and Brain Brawl is probably their first actual tournament. I expect Lamar Hall will be generating a lot of brain power on Saturday.” Sophomore Andrew Lund at Lamar High School in Meridian said it will be a fun yet challenging day for his first tournament. “This is my first time ever doing the Brain Brawl, so I’m looking forward to it,” Lund said. “I think it should go well because we’ve been practicing a lot in preparation for it, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see
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The recent student protests at the University of Missouri are part of a growing insistence amongst activist groups in America that black lives matter. Unfortunately, those student protests also reveal that the honoring of black bodies is hardly a public priority unless those bodies are shoved beneath helmets and packed into padding for public entertainment on SEC Saturdays. Citing the University of Missouri’s administration’s long-term negligence of minority issues and a refusal to acknowledge minoriTHE DAILY
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ty student oppression, Mizzou’s black students, fed up, demanded for weeks— and, on Monday, succeeded in forcing— the resignation of university president Tim Wolfe. Led by Concerned Student 1950, an activist group named with a nod to the first black student to attend the University of Missouri in 1950, students refused to spend money that would give the university any extra revenue. They protested. They organized sit-ins. One student even held a hunger strike, claiming that it would end either with Tim Wolfe’s resignation or his own death. I admit that I was skeptical. In the case of the University of Mississippi, it ain’t nothing to get a chancellor up out of here— if you’re the IHL Board, at least— and subsequently to be jaded by the echoes of the bells of rural racism that sound behind the apocalypse horn of positive societal change. I could only watch, sympathetic but still somewhat jaded, fearing that white supremacy would downplay black pain and step in the way of much-needed progress for a community reeling
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from racial unrest. But then, when several of the 42 black men on the Mizzou football team pledged last Saturday not to play again until Wolfe resigned, there was action: Wolfe resigned. And then, Twitter reaction: people were rude. Many Twitter commenters, mostly white, called for the expulsion of those players from the team so that they could be replaced by new players who would act, in their view, in a manner loyal to Mizzou’s best interests. Luckily, reading comprehension affords us the ability to understand those comments as a request for those black men to be loyal to the status quo and white comfort instead of the necessary change needed at Mizzou for it to function as well as it should. Asking black students who play football to ignore racism, to suspend the part of their identities so often under attack to become colorless cogs in a machine that masquerades as post-racial is just an exercise in insidiousness substantiated by willful blindness. Though the black talent on football teams
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is bought, but not paid, the young men there are not workhorses for the comforts of white supremacy— that is, slaves. But when the helmets are off, the scholarships expired, they are still indeed black. Though it is a relief that Mizzou’s coaches, “even the white ones,” in their own words, support those players who organized for the resignation of Tim Wolfe, it is unacceptable that whiteness too often only has compassion for black entertainers and black entertainment, but not the abuses pummeled against blackness itself. Fantasy football isn’t just played out on the internet amongst avid sports fans. Instead, it thrives inside stadiums and the bubble of comfort that insulates those privileged enough not to experience institutional racism from the real world of black people who aren’t rich, or famous, or athletes without jerseys on their backs to identify how much you should care about them. Sierra Mannie is a senior classics student from Canton.
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Students talk in small groups Thursday at an event the Associated Student Body organized in order to discuss the Mississippi state flag.
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on Saturday.” More than 140 other students from around the region will join Lund in competing for the title of champion. Registration begins at 8 a.m. in the lobby of Lamar Hall and the first match will take place at 9 a.m., also in Lamar. Some teams will be arriving from as far as five hours away just to participate and try to claim the championship. The event also serves as an opportunity for Ole Miss students to receive community service hours. College students will be volunteering as timekeepers and scorekeepers throughout the day. Meliah Grant, a sophomore communication sciences and disorders major, volunteered at last year’s Brain Brawl.
“I signed up to help out last year just to receive CAC hours for the honors college, but I ended up having a really great time keeping score and watching those kids compete,” Grant said. “It was so cool to see how much these high school kids knew. Some of it was about stuff I’d never even heard of.” The 42 teams will be broken into brackets of six based on their school size. These brackets will be formed in round-robin style competition, unlike the championship, which will have single-elimination rounds. DeLoach said competitions like this are not only fun to watch, but also help increase the scholastic reputation of the University. “I am happy to host these intelligent high school students on the Ole Miss campus and hope that they will choose our University to pursue their college degree,” DeLoach said.
continued from page 1 chance to tell one compelling statement that arose from their discussions. Galina Ostrovsky, a freshman undeclared major, spoke up after one of the topics, saying the decision to remove the state flag showed a good side of the University. “We can outgrow the stereotypes as a University - the stereotypes that (say) we are behind the times,” Ostrovsky said. Dominique Scott, a junior sociology major, said the removal of the state flag was an institutionalized action on improving inclusivity. King said the discussion highlighted lingering tensions, but in a way that they may be resolved. “This is about bringing everyone back together,” King said. “We need to have more of these conversations in every building on campus.”
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Mugg cakes offer a sweet treat said. “Support local.” Mugg Cakes has no brick and mortar or physical building for the business. Brown works out of a commercial kitchen but has no actual storefront. She has promoted her business and made it successful through networking. “I work the markets Tuesdays and Saturdays. That’s where I got my start (in Oxford),” Brown said. “Then it started to get around town by word of mouth.” Since then, she has approached local businesses about selling her cupcakes. She now has Mugg Cakes available at a few different establishments including Cups, the YoknapaTaco food truck and Oxford Canteen. Corbin Evans, owner and chef of Oxford Canteen, said he hopes Brown and her Mugg Cakes will
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From classic flavors like chocolate and red velvet to something a little more unique like honey lavender and pumpkin orange-spice, Mugg Cakes is bringing a new kind of cupcake to Oxford. In 2011, St. Louis native Karrian Brown decided she needed a change of pace. She resigned from her job in the healthcare and funeral services profession to pursue her dream of running a cupcake business. “I decided to do something fun,” Brown said. “They say follow your dreams and follow your passions, and that’s what I did. It’s something when your reality starts to match your dreams.” The name of Brown’s business has both literal and sentimental meaning. When starting Mugg Cakes, Brown said she needed something to set her cupcakes apart—to make them more than just another cupcake. “The mug is the uniqueness to our company. It became important to me because you have people who have had mugs for centuries,” Brown said. “They become collectors’ items. That was something that caught my attention, to say ‘Hey, let’s put a cupcake inside of a mug and see what happens.’” Brown said her nickname growing up was Mugg, so, when they came up with “Mugg Cakes,” it seemed like the perfect fit. Brown, her husband and three children moved to Oxford a little over a year ago and have not looked back. Brown has never been happier than she is now running Mugg Cakes and said that a big part of that is the support she has received from her friends and family.
become more popular. He features them on the menu every week on “Cupcake Friday.” Mugg Cakes will also be available at the Barn Trading Company in the Oxford Farmers Market. With so many options to choose, it is hard for a customer to pick which Mugg Cake to try. Brown said she likes to stay on the classic side with a chocolate cupcake while Derek, the expert taste tester, said all of them are his favorite. “My extra special favorite would now probably be the pumpkin spice,” Derek said. Brown said she hopes to continue selling her Mugg Cakes in local businesses, but also does parties and events. She requires at least 24 hours notice and a minimum of a dozen cupcakes.
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“I started baking for family and friends, and it took off from there,” Brown said. One of her biggest supporters is her husband Derek, who stands behind her whenever she decides to pursue something new. “Let’s do it,” Derek said. “That was my initial reaction and it has been my reaction ever since. Every time she wants to take a new step, I say ‘let’s do that’.” Perhaps one of the most supportive roles Derek plays for his wife takes place in the kitchen; not near the stove or the mixer, but at the table ready to taste whatever new combination Brown has concocted. “I just taste. I know my role and I play it well,” Derek said. Brown is constantly mixing different flavors to come up with new cupcakes. She says her customers play a huge part in keeping her inspired to try new things by making suggestions to her about what they would like to see, or rather, taste. Brown is
no stranger to trying new things when it comes to her cupcakes, even if it takes her a few tries to get the mixture just right. “Every batch I’ve ever tried has flopped at least once or twice,” Brown said. “The wildest were these green cupcakes. They were for a Dr. Seuss thing. They were green, but like really green.” In addition to the classic cupcake flavors, Brown comes up with new cupcakes daily, giving each of them their own name such as the “Muggkin,” a pumpkin cupcake, or the “Mug Pie,” an apple pie cupcake. For the foundation of her cupcakes, Brown has taken her grandmother’s recipes and revamped them. She combines techniques and tricks from her grandmother, her own experiences and Google to make the perfect cupcake. Brown also uses local ingredients in her Mugg Cakes. “I do get farm fresh products from the local farmers,” Brown
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Dig for treasure this weekend at the Oxford Consignment ALEX PRESLEY
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Imagine pushing through hanger after hanger, perusing through hundreds of items, when you come to a dead halt. You see a familiar logo, made up of five gold letters: Prada. It’s a trendier style from a couple of collections ago, but it’s the ultimate find. All it needs is a new owner to help it live up to its former glory. This weekend, people will have a chance to find their new-again dream garment at Oxford Consignment’s 2015 Fall/Winter Sale at the popup location of 618 McLarty Road. The sale will include clothing, shoes and accessories for ladies and gentlemen. Friends and business partners Amberlyn Liles and Myra Grissinger founded Oxford Consignment in 2012. Both women hold full-time jobs and see the business as a hobby. Oxford Consignment is not a constant store; it comes alive twice a year - once in the fall/winter season and once in the spring/summer season. “The goal is for customers to
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be able to buy and find from the best,” Liles said. “For example, you have a pair of Uggs that fit a little too tight. You won’t earn back retail price, but 70 percent of what they sell for— and someone else will get a bargain. It’s so much
fun to watch customers check out. It’s a win-win situation.” When it comes to putting value on an item you want to sell, Liles said it is important not to get hung up on what you paid for it originally. “Some people can get at-
tached for what they paid for retail,” Liles said. “It’s important to think, ‘If I went to a consignment sale, what would I pay for this?’” Liles said she has seen unique and interesting items come and go through Oxford Consignment. At the last sale, a limited edition Sharon Stone Amfar Louis Vuitton bag traded owners. The upcoming sale will be the biggest yet, with 64 consignors participating so far. There will be something for everyone in a wide range of sizes and styles. Oxford Consignment also hosts home décor sales. The next décor sale is likely to take place in early 2016, but the date will be formally announced on their website. Oxford Consignment strives to find high-quality items, so clothing must be fewer than 3 years old and able to bring in a minimum of 5 dollars. Consignors should make an appointment online before bringing in clothing, and the deadline to register is Nov. 13. The consignor agrees to make a 70 percent profit on items, and they will receive
a check in the mail within 10 days after the sale. Sellers are to provide tags for the items they wish to put up for sale. Clothing should be clean, ironed and in best possible condition. The complete set of guidelines for selling are on Oxford Consignment’s website, oxfordconsignment.com. With such a huge sale set to take place, Oxford Consignment is also in need of volunteers. Help is needed with handling and managing clothing, assisting with sizing and answering questions from customers. Volunteers get the advantage of getting first pick of the selection before the general public. Come to Oxford Consignment this weekend to hunt through a limited-time inventory, save on designer items and possibly find an exciting new addition to your closet. “We never know what we are going to get,” Liles said. “It’s like Christmas.” The sale will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Some prices will be reduced Sunday.
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WITH THE REBELS OFF ON THEIR BYE WEEK, WE HERE AT THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE OUR FOOTBALL EXPERTISE AND APPLY IT TO THE REST OF THE SEC. I’M NOT TELLING YOU TO TAKE THESE PICKS TO VEGAS, BUT I’M NOT TELLING YOU NOT TO, EITHER.
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Cody Thomason: Georgia hasn’t been the same team since star running back Nick Chubb went down. They have some good backs, like Sony Michel and Keith Marshall, to fill in, but without Chubb the offense isn’t very strong. Auburn has the game at home and should be able to win this one. Prediction: Auburn 27 Georgia 21 Brian Rippee: Auburn seems to be trending in the right direction after a horrible start. A strong showing against Ole Miss followed by a road win at Texas A&M prove that. Georgia is a mess right now, especially at quarterback. Prediction: Auburn 35 Georgia 21 Collin Brister: Auburn is not a good football team. Georgia is not a good football team. When two not good football teams get together, they combine for an 11 o’clock kickoff on CBS. The last time Georgia played at Jordan-Hare Stadium, in 2013, at Auburn, Auburn hit the “Prayer at Jordan-Hare” to win. Auburn should probably pray more this week. Prediction: Georgia 21 Auburn 20
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Cody Thomason: Florida took a hit when quarterback Will Grier was suspended for the remainder of the year, but they’ve stayed competitive and clinched an SEC East title. The Florida defense is still great, and meanwhile South Carolina is in the middle of a coaching change and shouldn’t be too much of a contest. Prediction: Florida 37 South Carolina 13 Brian Rippee: Florida is coming off of a 9-7 win at home against Vanderbilt, and with the way their offense is playing, this game looks like an opportunity for a slip up. The problem is that South Carolina gives up nearly 430 yards per game. Florida escapes, but this may be closer than some think. Prediction: Florida 20 South Carolina 13 Collin Brister: Florida won an ugly game last week against Vanderbilt, but that is what winning teams do: they win. Florida will play South Carolina this weekend, and while the Gamecocks are playing better, Florida’s defense will be too much for them. Prediction: Florida 24 South Carolina 13
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Cody Thomason: After beating LSU last week, Alabama definitely looks like the best team in the conference, especially defensively. Mississippi State does have the conference’s best quarterback in Dak Prescott, but they also have yet to get a marquee win in the SEC this season, losing to LSU and Texas A&M. Alabama has the upper hand in this matchup. Prediction: Alabama 38 Mississippi State 23 Brian Rippee: This is by far the best game of the week. Both of these teams appear to be peaking at the right time, and this one will be close. Dak Prescott’s resumé is pretty impressive, and the only thing missing is a win over Alabama. I’m afraid he comes up just short. Prediction: Alabama 28 Mississippi State 24 Collin Brister: For all of the good that Dan Mullen has done at Mississippi State, the one thing that is lacking is a win over Alabama. Dak Prescott gets a shot at home with the SEC West dreams still alive for Mississippi State. Alabama is coming off of a physical game with LSU. Prediction: Mississippi State 23 Alabama 21
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Cody Thomason:Neither team looks particularly good at this point in the season, but Vanderbilt looks worse. The defense for Vanderbilt is pretty solid, but the offense is atrocious at this point, and while the Wildcats’ offense hasn’t performed as expected, running back Stanley Williams should still perform well. Prediction: Kentucky 20 Vanderbilt 10 Brian Rippee: Kentucky has lost four in a row after starting 4-1. Three of those losses have come by at least 20 points. Vanderbilt nearly derailed Florida’s season last week in the swamp. An improved Commodore defense frustrates Patrick Towles and carries them to a win. Prediction: Vanderbilt 24 Kentucky 17 Collin Brister: It’s basketball season in Lexington, and after the undefeated season was snapped just a few games short the Wildcats will be looking to get back on track. Vanderbilt will be a solid team this year, with sharp-shooter Riley LaChance returning for the Commodores. The Wildcats, however, will have senior leadership in Alex Poythress and Junior Marcus Lee. Prediction: Kentucky 76 Vanderbilt 68
Cody Thomason: Arkansas has turned out to be a surprisingly good team near the end of the season, and LSU is coming off of their first loss of the season, but the Tigers still have the advantage in this matchup. Heisman candidate Leonard Fournette should be able to bounce back and have a big day en route to a Tigers victory. Prediction: LSU 30 Arkansas 24 Brian Rippee: This is an intriguing match up. Arkansas pulled a win out of thin air in Oxford last week, and LSU was run over by Derrick Henry in Alabama. The Razorback offense will provide another test for LSU, but I think the Tigers rebound in a close one. Prediction:LSU 27 Arkansas 20 Collin Brister-The Razorbacks had a solid performance last week in their win over Ole Miss. The Tigers will be beat up and licking their wounds this Saturday. Unfortunately for the Razorbacks, the Tigers still
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I’m sorry, Rebel fans need to root for MSU and LSU COLLIN BRISTER
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The student section cheers on the Ole Miss Rebels at a recent football game.
Ole Miss lost control of their SEC West destiny last Saturday, but they are still very much alive in winning the SEC West - if they win out. Sure, they’d have to luck out and win a tiebreaker, but the teams that they most likely wind end up tied with are either A) still on the Rebels’ schedule, or B) would lose the tiebreaker to the Rebels. The only team that the Rebels would lose a potential tiebreaker to would be the Arkansas Razorbacks. Arkansas has LSU, Mississippi State, and Missouri left on their schedule. Rebel fans are not going to like my next two sentences. This weekend, Ole Miss fans need to root for Mississippi State to beat Alabama. This weekend, Ole Miss fans need to root for LSU to beat Arkansas. Yes, I understand the
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hesitancy in rooting for LSU and Mississippi State. To be honest, it doesn’t seem fair that, after the heartbreaking loss Ole Miss fans endured last weekend, they have to now root for their arch rivals. That’s cruel. But they need to. If Mississippi State and LSU both win this weekend, Ole Miss controls their destiny again in the SEC West. Is that likely? I contend it’s more likely than what people want to believe. In the three previous years, the week after Alabama played LSU they either lost or found themselves in dog fights. In 2012, Johny Manziel marched the Aggies into Bryant-Denny the week after Alabama defeated LSU and came out victorious. In 2013, Mississippi State played Alabama to a 20-7 loss in a game that Dak Prescott missed due to injury. In 2014, Mississippi State played Alabama to a five-point loss in a game that decided the SEC West.
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Would it shock anyone if Dak Prescott beat Alabama? It certainly wouldn’t shock me. A common theme in teams that defeat Alabama is that their quarterback is mobile. Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide team has lost to the following quarterbacks under Saban’s watch: Tim Tebow, Cam Newton, Johny Manziel, Nick Marshall, Trevor Knight and Stephen Garcia. All guys that can run. Dak Prescott and Chad Kelly are clearly the best two quarterbacks in the SEC. Kelly was able to take his team into Bryant-Denny Stadium and defeat Alabama. I won’t be shocked on Saturday afternoon if Dak Prescott does the same thing. The Rebels also need LSU to beat Arkansas, but that result isn’t as pressing. There are scenarios that would allow the Rebels to still win the SEC West if the Razorbacks win out. The Rebels will finish ahead of the Razorbacks in the standings if they win out as long as Alabama doesn’t fall victim to Auburn and Texas A&M doesn’t lose to the mighty Vanderbilt Commodores. With that being said, it’d be best for the Rebels if they saw an LSU victory over the Razorbacks. That would guarantee that the Rebels would choose their own fate when it came to the SEC West. Here comes the tricky part for the Rebels. They have to beat LSU. They have to beat Mississippi State. While Ole Miss does admittedly always play LSU close, sans 2011, the outcome hasn’t come out in favor of the Rebels too often. The Rebels did take care of LSU the last time Les Miles came to Oxford on a last-second Andrew Ritter field goal. If the Rebels were to beat LSU, they would have to win at Davis-Wade Stadium in the Egg Bowl. Ole Miss is 3-9 in their last 12 in Starkville and have not won since Eli Manning’s 2003 team beat Mississippi State in Jackie Sherrill’s last game. The Rebels don’t have good fortune when it comes to Starkville, and will need to reverse this. Also, let’s pretend for a second that Mississippi State does beat Alabama. Let’s then pretend that Ole Miss defeats the Bayou Bengals. Let’s then pretend Mississippi State defeats Arkansas later that night. I know, I know, that sounds like Peter Pan and his imagination, but that brings us the all to real scenario of: An Egg Bowl SEC West Championship. God bless us and this state if that happens.