ShareThisThis is why you love Southeastern Conference football.This is why I love SEC football.Ole Miss 31, No. 4 Florida 30.Because right when you think you have everything figured out, you don't. That's precisely what SEC football is all about.Saturday's victory couldn't have been a better example of why Ole Miss was more than happy to hire Houston Nutt after Arkansas forced him out the door.Granted, the Razorbacks had their reasons. Nutt wasn't a great recruiter, and his successor, Bobby Petrino, understands this better than anybody.And because Nutt didn't ever recruit a great quarterback -- the jury is still out on former Hogs' QB Mitch Mustain, who's fourth on the depth chart at Southern Cal-- Nutt fell in love with the run. It was easier for Nutt to recruit running backs.But the one thing master motivator Nutt can do is make a team believe it is better than it really is. Until Saturday, the most recent proof was his last game at Arkansas, when the Hogs marched into Tiger Stadium and knocked off No. 1 LSU, 50-48 in three overtimes last November.Think about it. In a span of a week, Nutt and his staff were able to pick the Rebels up off the ground after they gave away a game (six turnovers) to Vanderbilt, 23-17, went to Florida's fabled Swamp, rallied from a 17-7 deficit and beat the No. 4 team in the nation, thus becoming only the second team to beat UF in Gainesville under coach Urban Meyer.There was no way Florida was overlooking Ole Miss, not after last year's game in Oxford. The Gators hung on for a 30-24 win, and had to run quarterback Tim Tebow 13 times in the fourth quarter to preserve the victory.This time around, Ole Miss made every big play in the second half. There weren't many Gator chomps from the stunned Florida fans after Dexter McCluster's superb 40-yard TD run off the "Wild Rebel'' formation and quarterback Jevan Snead's 86-yard fourth quarter scoring strike to Shay Hodge.And don't forget the Rebels' defense that created Florida's first three turnovers of the season and hounded Tebow all afternoon.(Contact Ron Higgins at rhiggins@commercialappeal.com.)(Ron Higgins writes for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn.)
Ole Miss over Florida shakes up SEC predictability
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