Episode Details

Pete Golding has beaten four ranked teams in his first six games as a head coach. No coach in the history of college football has done that. No. 17 Tulane, No. 2 Georgia, No. 24 Louisville, No. 7 LSU.

He has never lost to a ranked opponent.

And Ole Miss is still getting points on the road Saturday from a team whose best win is Auburn. Spencer McLaughlin could not explain it on his own show, and neither could I.

One day to Florida.

Steven Willis joined Spencer McLaughlin on Locked On College Football to work through why the fourth-ranked team in America is an underdog, the one box-score line that tells you who won, and what happens to every old narrative about this program if Ole Miss walks out of The Swamp with it.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 "I'm scared. I am terrified. Down to my core."

1:46 Why is Florida favored? The emotional-letdown theory

3:00 Florida's 98th-ranked pass defense against Chambliss

3:50 The one box-score line that tells you who won

4:24 Spencer's 2023 Washington comparison, and why it breaks

5:00 Pete Golding's record against ranked teams

5:28 "I would feel like a complete and utter fool"

5:50 Ole Miss has the better team and the better quarterback

6:15 Why a 3:30 kickoff is the best thing that happened all week

6:40 Kewan Lacy, and real doubt about Saturday

7:03 The Deuce Alexander throw into a six-foot window

7:32 The last chance saloon for the old Ole Miss narratives

8:18 Ole Miss can run for 250 or throw for 450

8:40 Two predictions, one point apart

8:57 The secret is keeping Florida under 30

9:20 The front seven when it isn't being nerfed

📌 THREE THINGS

1. FOUR RANKED WINS IN SIX GAMES, AND NOBODY HAS UPDATED THE FILE. Per Sports Illustrated, Pete Golding is the first coach in college football history to beat four ranked teams in his first six games. Tulane, Georgia, Louisville, LSU. He is 5-1 overall and has never lost to a ranked opponent. Spencer McLaughlin had it as 5-1 against ranked teams — close, and low.

2. THE ONE LINE TO WATCH. Jadan Baugh at 27 carries for 125 yards means Ole Miss won. At 25 carries for 190, Florida won. Two carries and 65 yards apart. The first is 4.5 a carry from a back averaging 8.5 — Florida gets the clock game it wants and still has to grind. The second is a track meet in one direction.

3. THE LAST CHANCE SALOON. Steven's line on the show: this feels like the last chance for the old narratives about Ole Miss to exist, because they have to change if Ole Miss wins. A program that beat Georgia in a playoff quarterfinal nine months ago is still being priced like the old version of itself.

🎙️ Originally aired on LOCKED ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL with Spencer McLaughlin

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