Through only two games, Alabama has been better statistically

The Friday night event will take place from 6 p.m. -8 p.m.at the Pavilion Club inside The Pavilion at Ole Miss. Through two games, he has provided steady production, throwing for 405 yards and four touchdowns.

-LT Rod Taylor has stepped in for Laremy Tunsil at left tackle, but the junior is rotating with true freshman Greg Little, a five-star signee.

It will be the Rebels’ first morning game of the season, and the second contest captured by the worldwide leader in sports’ flagship channel. Markell Pack led in receiving with 46 yards and a touchdown in 3 catches while Evan Engram had 43 yards in 2 receptions. The Rebels’ nickel corner, Conner has the versatility to keep up with slot receivers in coverage and be a physical presence in run support – dual abilities the Rebels struggled to make up for in Conner’s’ absence a season ago.

As mentioned above the Crimson Tide may be defending National champions and have started this season 2-0 to retain the number one seeding, but last year’s championship run came about after a loss to Ole Miss.

Before Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace led a game winning drive in Oxford in 2014, and Senquez Golson made the game saving interception, it had been 11 years since Ole Miss had defeated Alabama (2003), back when Eli Manning was still the quarterback of the Rebels. Meanwhile on the mound, Will Stokes is back as one of the leaders in the bullpen along with three 2015 Freshmen All-America honorees: Brady Feigl, James McArthur and Andy Pagnozzi. “After the season ends, you go through the summer and start preparing for next year”. Ole Miss then has a bye before two straight weeks in the Yellowhammer State: first at Alabama and then at Auburn.

Tide coach Nick Saban is hoping that his players have learned from the mistakes that have cost his team the early season setback in each of the last two years.

Heading into this one, Alabama is looking to clean up some of its issues with penalties. Hurts was solid against USC in the opener and helped lead the Crimson Tide to a big win over Western Kentucky last week as well. “I talked about this after the game and after viewing the film”. “We definitely need to clean up our game”.

“I think their speed and quickness is a lot faster than they’ve been”, Kelly said. It’s incredibly hard to stop an offense that can hurt you with two different runners on any given play. There’s no player this affects more than quarterback Jalen Hurts.

Valdosta at North Alabama: The Lions have been idle since falling 31-12 to Jacksonville State in their opener. Your fate is to lose, and often, you don’t have much say in how it goes down.

That’s the thing, we get these opportunities from week to week.

The Tide has rolled big-time in its first two games.

This game means more to the Rebels than the Tide. Freeze notes that won’t be easy. In fact, Kelly’s poor play late in the second quarter through the second half is part of the reason the Rebels lost.

Chad Kelly is capable of putting up huge numbers for the Rebels if the Crimson Tide allow him time.

“First, I think they recruit very well, as we all know”, Kelly said. “We’ve gone through the skill portion of the fall, but now we get to have everybody out on the field at one time, and I think everyone is excited about it”.

“Now, going onto another great team like Alabama, we really have to harp on protecting the ball, and that starts this week in practice”.