Mark Ingram likes Ole Miss to keep the momentum rolling in Saturday night’s showdown with Texas.
The former Alabama star, who has played in plenty of high-profile games himself, weighed in on the No. 7 Rebels’ trip to Austin for a ranked SEC clash against No.
19 Texas. The matchup brings together two of the sport’s biggest quarterback names - Ole Miss’s Trinidad Chambliss and Texas’s Arch Manning - but it also features two teams heading in very different directions.
Ole Miss enters at 5-1 overall and 3-1 in the SEC, carrying a top-10 ranking into one of its biggest tests of the season. Texas, meanwhile, has taken a sharp tumble from No. 1 in the country to No. 19 after back-to-back 27-24 losses to Oklahoma and Florida, both of whom were unranked at the time.
The Horns are 4-2 and trying to stop the slide in primetime Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC, while also avoiding a 1-3 start in conference play.
On The Triple Option podcast, Ingram made his choice clear.
“I’m looking at Ole Miss here. Is Ole Miss being slept on?
You know, they might have the best quarterback in the country. Now, they go on the road, a Texas team that was playing desperate.
Life comes at you fast. They were just ranked No. 1, now they lost back-to-back games and the potential to get even worse,” Ingram said.
“Colin Simmons, ankle injury, their best defensive player. This thing could be spiraling out of control.
I think it’s gonna be a close game early.
“I trust this (Ole Miss) offense. I think they’re going to be able to score more points than Texas. And I feel like Ole Miss goes into Texas and wins the game.”
While Ingram backed the Rebels, the Kalshi market has its own read on which team has the edge in what could be a defining win for either side.
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