After Ole Miss cruised to a 38-27 victory over Mississippi State in the 112th meeting between the SEC's Magnolia State representatives, claiming their second consecutive Egg Bowl victory and bringing Hugh Freeze's record against the Bulldogs to 3-1, I felt a level of relief about Ole Miss football that I hadn't felt since the 2009 Egg Bowl. In that contest, Houston Nutt's first and Sylvester Croom's last, an underrated Ole Miss team clobbered Mississippi State 45-0 in a moment that felt like a nail-in-the-coffin situation for the Bulldogs program relative to Ole Miss.
I had the exact opposite feeling after Houston Nutt's 2011 Rebs lost 31-3 to Dan Mullen's third year program in Starkville.