Going into last Saturday’s AdvoCare Zaxby’s Shiner Bock Lone Star State Forever Showdown Shootout against Texas Tech in Houston, I was convinced Ole Miss would return to Oxford as the owner of a new trophy that would sit next to David Cutcliffe’s 14 Independence Bowl trophies in the auxiliary trophy case in Storage Room C. In fact, I had enough confidence in a win that I wagered some of my monies on Ole Miss to win outright (DON’T NEED YOUR +2.5 CHARITY, VEGAS).
While my staff counted all of my cash later that day and placed it in duffel bags, I took measure of what I witnessed earlier and thought about whether those scenes changed my outlook for the remaining 11 games.