re: Gumps... Why is history decades old more important than history a year old?

Losing on the road to Bama this weekend won't be the end of the Ole Miss program.

Bama is the premier program in college football.

This weekend the Rebels will go and see how we fare against the team everybody considers to be the gold standard year in and year out.

If we lose, so be it. I won't be shocked if we win or lose this game.

This Rebel team is talented and still hungry so I'm excited about the year ahead. Everybody will be dickriding Bama if they win. We all know that.

Rebel fans are excited because we have a lot of reasons to be excited. We think we have a good shot because we do have a pretty good shot at beating Bama again. It won't be easy but there's little reason to be all skerrred of Bama if you are an Ole Miss fan today.

If the Rebs lose a close game to Bama then that will be disappointing but it won't be the end of the world at all. We still have LSU/AU/A&M left. This is the SEC and this weekend is just one game. The west is brutal so I don't think anybody will come out undefeated anyway.