Going into the Ole Miss game, I had the same question on my mind that I would guess many of you did. How would the Mizzou defense look without its leader, all-world linebacker, Cale Garrett?
While the replacements in the middle, Cam Wilkins and Jamal Brooks, acquitted themselves well — they finished with eight tackles between them — they didn’t exactly pop. But, as many of us believed might happen, weakside linebacker Nick Bolton picked up much of the slack, finishing with ten total tackles, nine of them solos.
And... he popped.