... finishing 2008 with an impressive win in the Cotton Bowl against Texas Tech and a solid 9-4 (5-3 SEC) record, the excitement in Oxford prior to head coach Houston Nutt’s second stanza has been electric.

 

The AP’s Top 25 Poll had the Rebs in at No. 8 with only Florida and Alabama ranked ahead of them in the SEC.  Sports Illustrated had them ranked at No. 6 and put them on the August 17th cover, calling them BCS party crashers.

 

Nutt, no stranger to party crashing, has a long history of being the giant kil...

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