Take any SEC team. Look at Clemson…. for example with Nebraska. As you can take any SEC team and insert name and get the same results. Its how the conference dynamics have shaped over the last few years. Much like the Big 12 is about the Spread and passing.

SEC teams are about the run and defense is about selling out to stop the run. Teams that can pass and play a bit of pass defense win. Teams that can not stop the run lose. That is the realities of the SEC the most overrated conference in NCAA followed quickly by the PAC 10.

The truth is that if Tech plays its game and is smart in the passing game, Tech wins hands down. But Tech has to watch out for the early sell out blitzes and 8 man fronts which have caused Tech trouble in times passed. See Virginia, and Minnesota as examples of this.

These teams will bring high pressure early to rush the QB and prevent any form of the running game early on. This is typical standard SEC and for that matter most of the conferences like the PAC 10, Big 10, ACC and Big East for sure.

Tech has to be smart early on not to allow the heavy push up front from the overloaded looks. But run not screens but play actions early on to set up the deep pass and the run.

If Tech plays smart, then Tech should play lights out for Ole Miss and try to put up 70 in the bowl game. This would do more for the Tech program than anything else.

Tech has a cotton bowl game that does not benefit Tech in the general scheme of things. They are facing a 20+ ranked team as a #7. This show disrespect in all honesty. Tech should have had a better team to play who is ranked better than Ole Miss.

So if Tech does not totally distroy Mississippi, then Tech looks bad and it only serves to give the Papers and the AP and ESPN more ammunition to make fun of Tech.

Tech has to totally destroy Mississippi in order for there to be respect given to Tech. of the other top 10 teams, Tech is not given the respect like the others. Its bad enough to have Utah jump past Tech in the BCS because of the AP and Coaches polls when they are not at the level of a #6.

But then that is the breaks. Tech is 11-1 with no respect and given the kind of references reserved for an 8-4 team. Tech has more to at stake than Mississippi in this game. Look to Holiday bowl with Tech and California where California was upset and over looked a #21 Tech team at the time.

We can not have the same kind of result. Tech has to prove that this season was not a one shot wonder which is what most of the AP writers are calling it and what ESPN pundits are saying.

Tech has to not just win the game but demolish ole Miss.

This is easy if you know the basics of the SEC. Stuff the run and make the QB have to win passing. If Ole Miss’s Rebel OB Snead has to carry the team on his throwing ability then Ole Miss will be lucky to put up 10 points.

Ole Miss beat Florida by selling out to stop the run. They sent 8 to 9 players to stuff the run and rush Tebow. Tebow is not good enough of a QB to carry Florida on the strength of his arm which is something I hope Oklhoma picked up on.

But Ole Miss lives and dies with the Run. They cannot stop the pass to save their lives. The question is not to allow the 8 man front when they use it to disrupt our offense.

See Clemson vs Nebraska in their 8 and 9 man front to counter the Spread of Nebraska. Mississippi has hinted that they will use something simular. Is that just rummor or wishful thinking. Houston Nutt has said that he plans on loading up the line to bring massive pressure on Harrell and will use a little of the Florida scheme with what he sees with the Oklahoma win over Tech.

Thus there it is. Mississippi who is an overachiever this year will try and steal this one from the Raiders. Thus Tech has to play lights out especially with all the trash talk about Tech and the Big 12 not just from SEC hick idiots but from the AP and ESPN morons as well.

Snowball effect works in our favor this time (think OSU game). Harrell has a huge day as he and Mr. Crabtree play in front of hometown fans. Seniors go out on a high note and properly finish off the best season in history!

Tech – 52
Ol Miss – 31

Its not Drugs….. Its called calling a Spade a Spade.

I said that Tech has to show up with a game plan against the SEC type of team. Tech did not show up and the defensive game plan sucked!

Tech came in thinking they had it in the bag without much effort. But they got beat and had their ass handed to them on a silver plate.

SEC teams like the PAC 10 are about the run. Tech did not stop the run and allowed Ole Miss to run and run and run which allowed them to get their passing game going.

Sneed proved that if he had to pass to win the game Ole Miss loses. But that is the realities of the game. I saw Ole Miss game plan a mile away and gave it prior to the game.

What makes me sick and mad, is that if I saw it, then what the hell! I am not getting paid the big bucks but I would have worked to stop the run at all cost forcing Ole Miss into a pass to win game. When Tech got Ole Miss in to 3rd and long Sneed was 42% in getting the first down.

Although knowing what they are going to do and getting the players to stop it are two different things. But once again, our secondary sucked on pass coverage deep when we had 2 and 3 deep zones. So I say again, Fire the Secondary coaches and get some one better who can teach and show our boys better methods of coverage!