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00:00 But with Ole Miss in the Peach Bowl,
00:03 this turned out to be the perfect location for Ole Miss.
00:07 We talked about the Cotton Bowl,
00:09 we talked about matchups with potentially Texas,
00:12 and all these sexy matchups out there.
00:14 We talked about what could benefit Ole Miss the most.
00:18 And we settled on this fact that
00:22 if Ole Miss needs to win their bowl game,
00:25 and it doesn't matter which bowl they're in,
00:27 winning the game is going to be paramount
00:29 for the Ole Miss Rebels in this football game,
00:32 and it would have been the case
00:33 even if they had went to the Citrus Bowl.
00:35 Just win the game. Get that 11th win.
00:39 That is where momentum is.
00:41 That is where you kind of can make your bones.
00:45 Get that 11th win.
00:47 But we talked about how it was going to be important
00:50 with the win to get some little bit of leeway.
00:54 So you kind of needed to beat a national brand.
00:57 And Iowa, as great as it is,
00:59 Ole Miss would have went into that game
01:00 as a 13-point favorite.
01:02 They just would have.
01:04 I think Brett McMurtry, Murphy, at the Action Network
01:08 had them at 13 points favorite in that game
01:10 whenever they were saying that Ole Miss
01:12 was like the bona fide choice
01:15 to get into the Citrus Bowl in January.
01:20 And that would have been fine,
01:22 but if Ole Miss would have won that game,
01:24 they're probably eighth or ninth.
01:26 You know, if you look at national perception,
01:29 if you win your bowl game,
01:31 you get a bump depending on who it is.
01:33 It's just the way it works.
01:35 If you look at it, Ole Miss beat Texas Tech
01:38 in the Cotton Bowl in 2008.
01:41 Ole Miss came into the 2009 season
01:44 ranked third or fourth in the country
01:46 because of what was coming back.
01:49 That narrative story that Ole Miss is going to take
01:53 during the offseason is only going to be possible
01:56 if Ole Miss wins the bowl game.
01:58 Ole Miss needs to win the bowl game,
02:00 and Penn State's a good team, okay?
02:02 Understand that they struggle a little bit offensively,
02:05 but their defense is salty.
02:06 This is a Manny Diaz defense.
02:08 We went against Manny Diaz when he was at Mississippi State.
02:11 They're attacking. They flow very hard.
02:14 All of that stuff is what Penn State does.
02:17 They have a couple of really good defensive ends.
02:20 They're really nice at stopping the run.
02:23 They're a top-five defense in the country.
02:25 Now, they're from the Big Ten, which most of the good teams
02:29 play defense and run the football because of the weather,
02:31 but Penn State does that.
02:35 So we're going to look at what Penn State does really well
02:39 as this gets closer to the bowl game
02:41 because we're about four weeks out from that.
02:43 We got a lot of stuff we're going to get on.
02:44 We're going to have crossovers
02:46 with the locked-on Nittany Lions host, all of that stuff.
02:50 We'll get to that in due time.