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Hugh Freeze has Ole Miss off to a 3-1 start. But now comes the hard part -- the Rebels' SEC schedule -- where the new coach faces old trouble.
Ole Miss becomes the final SEC team this season to kick off conference competition when it visits Alabama Saturday night. The Rebels carry an archive of streaks into the game -- all bad.
Ole Miss has lost 14 consecutive conference games, 11 straight against SEC West rivals and 10 in a row in league road games. And of all the SEC road games for the Rebels, the trip to Tuscaloosa has proven the rockiest. Ole Miss has lost on its past 10 trips to Bryant-Denny Stadium and owns a 1-24 record in Tuscaloosa (the lone victory came in 1988.)
As for Freeze, his eight predecessors at Ole Miss all lost their first conference game, a legacy of losing that started after Billy Kinard's victory over Kentucky in his SEC debut in 1971.
On the other hand, No. 1-ranked Alabama has won eight in row over Ole Miss and can wrap up its fifth straight perfect September with another win over the Rebels. The Crimson Tide is on a school-record streak of its own: Saturday's 40-7 victory over Florida Atlantic was Alabama's seventh in a row by at least 21 points.
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Ole Miss becomes the final SEC team this season to kick off conference competition when it visits Alabama Saturday night. The Rebels carry an archive of streaks into the game -- all bad.
Ole Miss has lost 14 consecutive conference games, 11 straight against SEC West rivals and 10 in a row in league road games. And of all the SEC road games for the Rebels, the trip to Tuscaloosa has proven the rockiest. Ole Miss has lost on its past 10 trips to Bryant-Denny Stadium and owns a 1-24 record in Tuscaloosa (the lone victory came in 1988.)
As for Freeze, his eight predecessors at Ole Miss all lost their first conference game, a legacy of losing that started after Billy Kinard's victory over Kentucky in his SEC debut in 1971.
On the other hand, No. 1-ranked Alabama has won eight in row over Ole Miss and can wrap up its fifth straight perfect September with another win over the Rebels. The Crimson Tide is on a school-record streak of its own: Saturday's 40-7 victory over Florida Atlantic was Alabama's seventh in a row by at least 21 points.
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