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VITTER TO CONSIDER REMOVAL OF MEEK’S NAME MAGNOLIA BOWL The Council of Academic Administrators voted to remove the SHOWDOWN name of Ed Meek from the School of Journalism and New Media Ole Miss Football after the Graduate and Undergraduate Councils both voted heads to Baton to do so. The proposal now heads to Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter, Rouge to face who will decide whether or not to make a recommendation Louisiana State to the state Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees, University which will have the final vote to remove the name. SEE PAGE 8 SEE THEDMONLINE.COM FOR CONTINUING COVERAGE UM community reacts to Kavanaugh hearing
PHOTO COURTESY: AP | ANDREW HARNIK, POOL PHOTO COURTESY: JIM BOURG, ABACA, SIPA USA (SIPA VIA AP IMAGES) Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a sexual assault, is Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday. sworn in to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday.
Kavanaugh and senators, both “The details of that night — that Thursday. He said there is a “frenzy JORDAN HOLMAN Democrat and Republican, during bring me here today — have been on the left” to block his confirmation. [email protected] the hearing, which is part of his U.S. seared into my memory, and (they As the hearing came to a close Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Supreme Court confirmation process. have) haunted me episodically as an Thursday evening, the Ole Miss Kavanaugh delivered emotional This past summer, Ford wrote adult,” Ford recalled before the Senate history department hosted a Gender testimonies before the Senate a letter to a senior Democratic Judiciary Committee on Thursday. History Pop-Up in Bishop Hall Judiciary Committee on Thursday, lawmaker, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Kavanaugh upheld his rejection of featuring a discussion centered regarding Ford’s allegations that in which she outlined how Kavanaugh Ford’s allegations during Thursday’s around the hearings and other topics Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her assaulted her more than three decades hearing. like the #MeToo movement. more than 30 years ago. ago during their time as high school “This has destroyed my family and students in suburban Maryland. my good name,” Kavanaugh said on Tensions were high between SEE KAVANAUGH PAGE 3 Oxford businesses see decreased sales tax revenue
Antonow said. “The state Oxford Sales Tax Revenue for Each Fiscal Year and Percentage Gained or Lost CHRISTIAN OSBORN will receive the revenue, and [email protected] then it will be distributed back to the cities. This won’t 2008 $6,036,322 The 2018 fiscal year happen until the end of the 2009 $5,756,524 4.64 percent loss marked the first time since year, and it will be phased 2010 that sales tax revenue in, gradually.” 2010 $5,464,500 5.07 percent loss collected in Oxford declined. Sales tax for the state The decline is due, in of Mississippi is seven 2011 $5,822,718 6.56 percent gain part, to the rise of online percent. Under the new shopping, according to law, 18 percent of sales tax 2012 $6,479,753 11.28 percent gain Oxford Alderwoman Janice revenue collected will be 2013 $7,069,861 9.11 percent gain Antonow. She said that, redistributed from the state before the recent enacting back to its cities. 2014 $7,457,265 5.19 percent gain of a state law that allows According to the Mississippi to collect sales Mississippi Office of the State 2015 $8,142,926 8.42 percent gain tax from online retailers, only Auditor, sales tax revenue brick-and-mortar stores were for the city of Oxford totalled 2016 $9,146,938 12.33 percent gain required to pay sales taxes. $9,721,820 for the 2017 $9,721,820 6.28 percent gain “A (state) law was passed fiscal year. In 2018, revenue 2017 where all online purchases do have to be taxed,” 2018 $9,679,239 .44 percent loss SEE REVENUE PAGE 3 GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION: HAYDEN BENGE PAGE 2 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 28 SEPTEMBER 2018 OPINION
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LIAM NIEMAN COLUMN arts & culture editor ELIZA NOE assistant arts & culture editor When oppression runs dry [email protected] We have a long history of illustrates the direct involvement? According to HAYDEN BENGE bias in the United States. correlation of parental income Alexander, the difference does design editor Our skepticism of skewed and higher standardized test not come from the intellectual [email protected] representational statistics scores. Are the children of superiority of higher- in any situation seems well the rich simply just more income students versus their ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA founded. There must be intelligent? Not exactly. lower-income counterparts. opinion and design editor prejudice involved. Right? There is a significant Much more important is [email protected] As our awareness of bias correlation between income how students spend their becomes more institutionalized and test scores from summers. Alexander’s study and our mechanisms for kindergarten through high determined that continual SARAH HENDERSON selection become less corrupt, school. However, it isn’t educational stimulation online editor the disparity between exactly clear that income throughout summer breaks [email protected] participants and their group has much to do with it. was much more impactful IVANA NGUYEN JOSH BAKER representation requires a Karl Alexander, a sociology when determining educational social media editor [email protected] much deeper level of study. professor at Johns Hopkins testing achievement and [email protected] Blind auditions for orchestral University, reached a different postgraduate success. When positions started eliminating conclusion in his 2007 study examining the school year Bias is often the assumption ADVERTISING selection bias in the 1950s. titled “Lasting Consequences of gains in testing ability, made when a controversial SALES MANAGER What about today? A modern the Summer Learning Gap.” surprisingly, the middle- story or an uncomfortable Rebecca Brown example of this is the same “We find that cumulative income students took a slight study that points to a [email protected] “blind” effect of women’s (testing) achievement gains lead over both high- and low- supposedly clear narrative participation in chess. The over the first nine years of income testers. emerges. Occasionally, it is proliferation of online ratings children’s schooling mainly Complex entities like SALES ACCOUNT what it appears to be: prejudice for the highest levels of chess reflect school-year learning, America’s education system EXECUTIVES disguised as objectivity. would seemingly eliminate whereas the high (income)– aren’t single-variable issues. Sofi Ash Take the 1896 Supreme the underrepresentation of low (income) achievement gap They contain hundreds, if not Cameron Collins Court ruling in Plessy vs. female players. However, at ninth grade mainly traces to thousands, of moving parts — Ferguson, which affirmed Sam Dethrow an inverse effect happened. differential summer learning each easily capable of tearing public segregation in the Isaiah Pugh Men still are overwhelmingly over the elementary years. down the entire structure. court’s worst ruling in history. Michael Rackers overrepresented in the top 100 These early out-of-school When dealing with such Interracial marriage remained global chess rankings. summer learning differences, volatile and complex problems, illegal until 1967, with the What about educational in turn, substantially account it is important that we leave S. GALE DENLEY stigma lasting much longer. On opportunities? Statistically, for achievement-related ideology at the door. Maturity STUDENT MEDIA CENTER the other hand, gender bias in and by perception of the differences by family’s must become the most valuable hiring decisions has also been PATRICIA THOMPSON public, higher-income socioeconomic status in high tool in our modern landscape. slow to evaporate, requiring Assistant Dean/Student Media students typically dominate school track placements extraordinary measures — Daily Mississippian Faculty standardized testing scores (college preparatory or not), Josh Baker is a junior such as blind auditions for Adviser and are far more likely to high school noncompletion and economics and mathematics professional orchestras — to attend college. The New four-year college attendance.” major from Houston, Texas. result in higher levels of York Times published a story So, what is to blame? successful female candidates. in 2009 which graphically Income? 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“I was not surprised at the this degree, there would be not have visited recently and KAVANAUGH allegations themselves, and I several (members) who would REVENUE “don’t realize how much we continued from page 1 was even less surprised that not hold up to scrutiny.” continued from page 1 have to offer.” The visitor’s many are standing by him,” “That being said,” Keller center is offering double-decker Durrett recalled. “The subject of noted, “I think that Dr. Ford’s bus rides on Fridays before “How didn’t (these was $9,679,239, which is a sexual assault is a very touchy testimony should be strongly home football games and on allegations) come up?” Susan 0.44 percent loss. The number subject for me, and I’ve quickly considered by the committee.” Oct. 19, the evening before the Stearns, an assistant professor represented a downturn become very disappointed in President Donald Trump Auburn game, it will be bringing of history, asked the room. in what had been a time of how quick we are to brush off restated his support for back Square Jam. “People go through extensive consistent growth. allegations as ‘women trying to Kavanaugh in a tweet Square Jam was an annual FBI background checks to Throughout the last eight get famous.’” Thursday night. event that took place on the be rugby coaches. How did a years, Oxford has seen yearly Jacob Keller, a senior “Judge Kavanaugh showed Oxford Square that featured potential Supreme Court justice growth in the amount of sales accounting major who America exactly why I a basketball court placed not have this come up?” tax revenue collected — until describes himself as a nominated him,” Trump between the courthouse and Shennette Garrett-Scott, now. moderate conservative, agrees tweeted. “His testimony was Neilson’s Department Store. assistant professor of history The decrease in revenue does with Durrett’s sentiments. powerful, honest, and riveting. It is returning after a two-year and African-American not appear to be significant hiatus and will display a dunk Studies, discussed the possible until it is accompanied by the contest as well as a 3-point implications of investigations fact that between 2013 and shootout held among the into allegations of sexual assault I was not surprised at the 2017, Oxford’s sales tax revenue members of the Ole Miss men’s at Thursday night’s pop-up. experienced a 37.5 percent allegations themselves, and I and women’s basketball teams. “These investigations can be increase. The largest revenue Hedges also brought up exploitative,” Garrett-Scott said. gain between two fiscal years was even less surprised that the importance of supporting “Like Anita Hill, today Dr. Ford ‘ was from 2015 to 2016, when Oxford’s hotel industry and was being grilled by senators, many are standing by him. The the amount jumped from urged weekend visitors to trying to prove her story. The $8,142,926 to $9,146,938 — a subject of sexual assault is a attempt to seek lodging within truth is (that) people we are 12.33 percent gain. the city as opposed to staying entrusting to find justice for The lack of revenue could very touchy subject for me, in surrounding areas, if at all these victims are often, in fact, be bad for businesses that rely possible. exploiting them, as the system and I’ve quickly become very heavily on tourism dollars “We want to get the message in place is really a structure of to make ends meet. At the disappointed in how quick we out that when there are hotel power that protects people.” city level, new methods and rooms available in Oxford Many students at the event marketing strategies are being are to brush off allegations as for big weekends, fans are said they believe the current created to attempt to attract encouraged to consider staying generation is effecting change ‘women trying to get famous.’” visitors to Oxford. in town to take advantage of and that, hopefully, the outrage “As far as marketing efforts Cole Durrett what we have to offer rather from the #MeToo movement, Senior classics and English double major go, we do a lot on social media. than finding lodging in a Weinstein case and Kavanaugh and member of College Democrats We have also started to target neighboring city,” Hedges said. allegations will change not only fans from the visiting schools “I don’t believe the women Democrats’ search and destroy The Oxford Tourism Council the way women speak up about (during football season) that are lying, but I wonder if strategy is disgraceful and this is also implementing special sexual violence but also how may not have been to Oxford we can judge a person’s process has been a total sham marketing projects to attract well society listens. before but (that) may have character by actions that were and effort to delay, obstruct, more visitors. Groups that meet Two more women, some interest in doing so,” said committed decades ago,” and resist.” eligibility requirements and Deborah Ramirez and Julie Mary Allyn Hedges, director of Keller said. “Can we assume The Senate Judiciary have an interest in choosing Swetnick, have recently come the Oxford Visitor’s Center. that people never change? I Committee will vote to send Oxford to host an event may forward with allegations Hedges said the visitor’s would say that if we (were to) Kavanaugh’s nomination to the apply for a grant that is funded against Kavanaugh. As a center is exploring options to investigate the past lives of full Senate on Friday. by the 2 percent tax on lodging result, the Democrats on the get people to Oxford that may every member of Congress to and prepared food. Senate Judiciary Committee asked President Trump on Wednesday to withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination. In return, Kavanaugh agreed to testify at yesterday’s hearing. Cole Durrett, a senior classics and English double major and member of College Democrats, expressed his disgust with Kavanaugh and disappointment with the justice system.
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Students hire consultants to advise sorority recruitment
word of advice is preparation,” sororities. This entails not BRI SELLERS Grant said. wearing sorority T-shirts, [email protected] There are various recruitment removing Greek-letter car consultation groups, such as decals and refraining from If you’ve driven down Sorority GreekChic and GoGreekGirl, as attending their chapters’ Row during rush week at Ole well as individuals available for functions until bid day. Miss, you’ve likely seen young hire across the country. Most Olivia Vanderleest, a senior women lining the streets wearing have an hourly rate of $80 to biology major and recruitment clean dresses, big hair and high $125. This cost can cover many counselor, said that hiring a heels. But in recent years, you things ranging from a social rush consultant can be harmful might have noticed a few extra media review to a wardrobe or helpful. people waiting outside the assessment, and it is not limited “Are (rush consultants) helping chapter houses. to the consultant traveling to to calm (PNMs’) nerves and Although you’re likely to spot the potential new member’s answer questions, or are they some anxious mothers who are university during rush week. trying to shape someone into hopeful that their daughters GoGreekGirl posted a few what they think a certain sorority become legacies — these are anonymous success stories on its is looking for?” Vanderleest said. not them. These outsiders webpage, including one from an “The latter is disingenuous in the are rush consultants — hired Ole Miss student. sense that they (PNMs) may not guns who groom would-be “Rush is very competitive at end up where they really fit best.” sorority members during the our campus, and I was so nervous Vanderleest said she suggests recruitment process. about everything because no that potential new members According to the website for women in my family had gone looking to have questions Rushbiddies, a recruitment Greek,” reads the Ole Miss answered should save money and PHOTO: consultant group based out student’s statement. “(My rush CHRISTIAN JOHNSON ask their recruitment counselors. Ole Miss students going through Panhellenic recruitment walk behind Barnard of Birmingham, the service consultant) treated me like a little “Get your info for free Observatory during rush week. “evolved from the concern of sister and ensured that all my from a woman who actually two Panhellenic-minded women paperwork was in place and that I here questions, because that Recruitment counselors are went through recruitment witnessing the best and most knew how to best approach each might affect me during rush, and sorority women at Ole Miss at her respective school,” outstanding high school girls not stage of recruitment.” my consultant has no affiliations who have gone through an Vanderleest said. being informed or prepared for Kenzie Hollis, a freshman to Ole Miss.” interview process and have Sorority member and senior sorority recruitment.” business major preparing for Though every woman been chosen to give advice hospitality management major Rushbiddies’ founder Pat recruitment, said she made registered for rush at Ole Miss is to and answer questions for Danielle Foster said she doesn’t Grant said being prepared is key the right decision by hiring a assigned to a small group with a “potential new members.” think hiring a professional would to the process, and that’s what consultant. She chats by phone student recruitment counselor, This year, I was one of be helpful. she hopes to provide her clients. with her rush consultant, who also known as a gamma chi, the women selected to be a “A chapter is not giving a bid to “If you are considering taking lives in Birmingham, Alabama. to answer her questions, some recruitment counselor and was a coach, they’re giving it to a girl part in sorority recruitment “It has actually made it a lot students still have doubts about assigned 12 women to mentor. they met during recruitment,” when you attend college, my one less stressful having her,” Hollis conversations getting back to These recruitment counselors Foster said. “I think the process said. “I’m afraid to ask people the chapters. are disaffiliated from their should just be 100 percent you.” WEEKEND NETFLIX GUIDE: ‘NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN’ & ‘DALLAS BUYERS CLUB’ ANDREW OSMAN This week, I watched two award-winning movies that I should have watched much sooner: “No Country for Old Men” and [email protected] “Dallas Buyers Club.” Luckily, both films were added to Netflix in 2018. If you haven’t watched these movies yet, you need to get to it before they disappear.
PHOTOS COURTESY: IMDB Watch: “No Country for Old Men” Watch: “Dallas Buyers Club” Directed by the Coen Brothers, “No Country for Old Men” was “Dallas Buyers Club” (2013) is another similarly popular movie, but I figured there the 2007 Academy Award winner for Best Picture. It takes place in are still many people that haven’t seen it. Like “No Country for Old Men,” this West Texas in the early 1980s. A hunter in the middle of the desert, film is also set in Texas in the ‘80s, but the premise is very different. Homophobic, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), discovers a drug deal gone wrong and wannabe cowboy Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is diagnosed with HIV a cash stockpile to the tune of $2 million dollars. Rather than report but, because of the stigma attached to it, aggressively denies the infection until it is the incident to the police, Llewelyn chooses to keep the money for impossible to ignore. himself. Incidentally, psychopathic hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Upon accepting that he is HIV-positive, he quickly begins seeking a cure for Bardem), is sent after the money, and a chase begins. himself — and shortly finds himself smuggling drugs into the U.S. When an FDA Rather than jumping into the action, the Coen Brothers take their investigation led by Richard Barkley (Michael O’Neill) cracks down on Woodroof’s time to introduce the characters and setting slowly. However, action operation, things get complicated for him. begins quickly and doesn’t let up until the end of the movie. Woodroof’s development throughout the story is what made the movie great The acting in the movie is great, and it is seen best in to me. He begins as a racist, homophobic electrician with problems with alcohol, Bardem’s role as the hitman. Chigurh is exactly what a villain drugs and sex. However, an unlikely partnership with a transgender woman named should be: remorseless, cold and extremely witty. At the same Rayon (Jared Leto) leads to tolerance from a formerly bigoted man. time, the film itself is vivid and bright, which makes Chigurh’s McConaughey’s acting is top-notch in this movie. He delivers powerful dialogue actions feel so much darker. and fits the image of what I imagine a Texan to be like in the ‘80s. His presence The ending of this movie had me thinking long after the final added a sense of realism to the story. scene. Not only does it provide a beautifully captured and I expected this movie to be more of a comedy and less of a drama, but I was exciting chase, it also leaves viewers with a powerful message. very wrong. Although it has its comedic relief, “Dallas Buyers Club” is much more This was an awesome find on Netflix, and those who haven’t powerful than I expected it would be, and I would suggest it to those who like a seen it are missing out. compelling story with strong acting and development of characters. THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 28 SEPTEMBER 2018 | PAGE 5
Southern scholars go behind the ‘kayfabe’ of pro wrestling
LIAM NIEMAN [email protected]
“How many in here are wrestling fans?” Christopher Stacey asked as he stepped out into the corridor created by rows of tables in the Tupelo Room of Barnard Observatory. Roughly half of the two dozen people in the room raised their hands. “How many in here are sports entertainment fans?” he asked, raising his voice before coming to his ultimate question: “Is there a difference?” This is how Stacey opened “Three Histories of Pro Wrestling in the South,” a series of talks by Stacey and two other scholars of the South, Chuck Westmoreland and Charles Hughes. Students, faculty and Oxonians alike showed out for the lunchtime lectures on Wednesday — PHOTO COURTESY: WWE some coming with sandwiches The Junkyard Dog. and several coming with than 15 minutes. The scholars “Building off some of the questions. buzzed from talk to talk, lenses that my colleagues are Stacey, an associate playing off each other’s energy talking about, I found that, professor of history at like professional wrestlers in actually, there is a rich story — Louisiana State University of the ring. and an interesting one — about Alexandria, was on campus Westmoreland, an associate how African Americans have to argue the point of his final professor of history at Delta engaged with pro wrestling question — that there was State University, posited that as performers and audience little or no difference between scholars should view and members,” Hughes said. pro wrestling and sports think about pro wrestling as Hughes argued that entertainment. a sport, which in turns opens pro wrestling played into To underscore his point, many avenues for academic stereotypes of black people Stacey showed a viral video inquiry. but also served as a space for of a man tearfully thanking a “Through sport we can get resistance. Even among racist panel of pro wrestlers. a window into issues of race, storylines, one wrestler, the “I just want to thank each gender, regionalism, politics, Junkyard Dog, emerged as and everyone one of y’all class, labor and many other a hero of black resistance in for all you’ve done to your aspects in a scholarly setting,” his fights against an explicitly bodies,” the man says in the Westmoreland said. neo-Confederate character video. “It’s still real to me, For Westmoreland, pro throughout the South. dammit!” wrestling is not only a Pro wrestling, Hughes Though fans bemoaned scholarly interest — it’s said, had more practical the exposure of pro wrestling personal. implications in the South, fakery, also known as “Growing up as a kid in such as the desegregation of “kayfabe,” Stacey said that southern Virginia, Saturday arenas at the behest of black this change in marketing morning in the 1980s meant performers and the hiring benefited scholars because one thing: wrestling at noon of black workers behind the it “opened Pandora’s box” of on WTVR,” Westmoreland scenes. In the 1990s, pro data for wrestling historians said. “And then, if my parents wrestling storylines even to explore. Before that, the would let me stay up late, featured storylines that aligned behind-the-scenes shows, after the 11 o’clock news, with the “hip-hop wars,” podcasts and books that another wrestling show would which were stoking white fears inform their work didn’t exist. come on.” throughout the U.S. Throughout the hour, the Hughes, who teaches and These lectures were the scholars talked with and about directs the Lynne and Henry third event in a four-part each other, referencing one Turley Memphis Center at series of brown bag talks another’s works and proving Rhodes College, said his work about sports in the South that they were familiar with focuses on “the intersection of hosted by the Center for the them. These scholars didn’t popular culture and American Study of Southern Culture. For see their ideas in isolation racial politics.” He used his the next event, Amira Rose but as parts of a broader time on Wednesday to directly Davis will discuss on Oct. 24 conversations about history, address the connections how “black women athletes sports and the South. between pro wrestling and have been hypervisible yet The talks were short, with race that Westmoreland oft-ignored symbols of various none clocking in at more hinted at. political struggles.” REBEL RADIO 92.1
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Soccer faces third top-25 opponent in Texas A&M
offensive side of the ball — the JOSH CLAYTON team’s last four goals have [email protected] each been the result of a free kick or a corner. Conference play will Along with the Aggies’ strong continue for the Ole Miss attack, CeCe Kizer and the soccer team tonight, as the Rebels will face a suffocating Texas A&M Aggies travel to defense that has allowed only Oxford for a 7 p.m. matchup. five opposition goals all year. The Rebels’ first two SEC The Texas A&M goalkeeper, matches were tests against Cosette Morche, has 17 clean top-25 teams Tennessee and sheets during her time in Auburn. But the No. 5 Aggies College Station, including nine might be the biggest challenge this year. of the gauntlet yet for Ole Miss. The Rebels made a statement The Aggies dropped from their this past Sunday by giving No. No. 2 ranking after their only 9 Auburn its first loss of the loss of the season at Arkansas season. Sophomore Channing last Thursday. This defeat Foster scored the Rebels’ first snapped a school-record, goal; then, Kizer took over the 25-match unbeaten streak and game, scoring two goals in the a 10-game win streak. second half. Kizer’s first goal The Aggies will come into came within the first seconds Oxford behind junior forward of the second half, and her Ally Watt, who has eight second goal was an absolute goals this season, and senior feat in the 77th minute, as defender Kendall Ritchie, who Kizer weaved through the has seven assists. Texas A&M entire Auburn defense to score. thrives on the set piece on the “She dribbled 70 yards and
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COLUMN Key matchups will decide Magnolia Bowl winner
problem. Jon Ledyard of The JOSH GOLLIHAR Draft Network has Brown, [email protected] Metcalf, Lodge and Knox all Saturday nights in Death in his 2019 first-round NFL Valley are not for the faint Mock Draft. of heart. If something wild On the other side, LSU or weird can happen in a also has elite playmakers. college football game, it can Linebacker Devin White and happen on a Saturday night cornerback Greedy Williams in Death Valley. should expect to hear their For the second time this names called really early in season, the Rebels will face April’s draft. Sophomore a team ranked in the top safety Grant Delpit is not five of the AP Poll. The first draft-eligible, but he is true road test of the season touted as one of the upper awaits the 3-1 Rebels, as they echelon of defensive backs in are set to face the LSU Tigers the country. in the 10th annual Magnolia From what the Ole Miss Bowl contest. offense faced versus an One key matchup could inexperienced Crimson decide the game. Ole Miss Tide secondary, expect the has as highly touted a wide opposite from LSU. These receiver corps as anybody. three standouts have a A.J. Brown, D.K. Metcalf, combined 59 games played. DaMarkus Lodge, Braylon Methodically moving the Sanders and Elijah Moore ball up and down the field all give defenses fits on a when facing this group is regular basis. Lodge and unrealistic. Phil Longo needs Sanders are the deep threats. to take his normal share of Moore and Brown are shots. The first play of the savants in the slot. Metcalf game against Alabama was makes the difficult look drawn up perfectly. He needs like clockwork. And just his team to hit on a few of when the defense covers those to have a chance at an the receivers, Dawson Knox upset. FILE PHOTO: BILLY SCHUERMAN presents a whole different Defensive tackle Austrian Robinson prepares to tackle quarterback Danny Etling in Ole Miss’ 24-40 loss to LSU last season. SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 7
PICK ‘EM: COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK FIVE Every week during the football season, the DM’s sports editors, Justin Dial and Ben Miller, along with a guest picker, will take a look at a few of the biggest college football games of the week and predict their winners. This week’s guest picker is Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter.
OLE MISS VERSUS NO. 5 LSU NO. 7 STANFORD VERSUS NO. 8 NOTRE DAME JD: Notre Dame got a big win in week one over a Michigan team that boasts one of the best
Justin Dial, sports editor: defenses in the nation. That was with Brandon With Texas Tech now No. 25 in the polls, the Wimbush at quarterback. The Irish are now Rebels currently have a win over a top-25 program. starting Ian Book — a much better option, under They get their second top-25 win on Saturday over center. Notre Dame wins big, 44-21. the Tigers, 38-28. BM: I’m going to go with Stanford here. I say this Ben Miller, assistant sports editor: solely because Notre Dame seems to always blow Rebs, no contest. 45-38. it in their biggest game of the year, which is what this will end up being. 27-21. Jeffrey Vitter, chancellor: I think we’ll come on strong and beat the Tigers by JV: Both alma maters, but my heart is with the 10. Plus, I’m looking forward to getting treated to Irish. ND by 14. an oyster loaf by my brother, David, after we win.
NO. 4 OHIO STATE VERSUS NO. 9 PENN STATE FLORIDA VERSUS NO. 23 MISSISSIPPI STATE SOUTH CAROLINA VERSUS NO. 17 KENTUCKY
JD: Heisman candidate Dwayne Haskins JD: Mississippi State — and Starkville as a JD: Kentucky is the real deal. Wildcat is tearing it up on the field in 2018 and, whole — is going to be crazy on Saturday. running back Benny Snell is probably the in the process, is solidifying Ohio State as With the return of former Bulldog head coach best back in the SEC right now, and this a playoff lock. He increases his Heisman Dan Mullen, it’s going to be a very hostile team will go as far as he takes it. South chances in Happy Valley and leads Ohio environment for the Gators, and Mullen’s Carolina won’t be able to contain him. State to a 27-21 victory. former team is seeking revenge. State wins Kentucky wins 28-17. convincingly, 38-14. BM: Dwayne Haskins and his Buckeyes BM: South Carolina hasn’t beaten the are way too hot to fall right now — even BM: As much as I would like to say that, for Wildcats since 2013. During the past five to a team with another top offense. Both the second week in a row, the Bulldogs are years, Kentucky has fielded some pretty defensive units will have their hands full, going to lose to weak opposition, Florida is weak teams in those wins. This is not one of but the Buckeyes will prevail, 34-28. just too weak. In what is truly one of the worst those years. Benny Snell and his Wildcats years for Florida Football in recent memory, win, 35-17. JV: I have to go with Penn State. Plus, my State wins big, 42-13. daughter Audrey got her master’s degree JV: I was impressed by the Wildcats last there. JV: Definitely a game worth watching! I’m not week. They should win by 10 at home. sure who will win, but it’ll probably be pretty loud.