2010 Cotton Bowl: Mississippi vs. Oklahoma State
Free Pick: Oklahoma State +3 -110 odds
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Ole Miss came into the season with a Top 5 national ranking and SEC championship dreams. Instead, Houston Nutt’s Rebels suffered a pair of early season losses when their offense was unable to move the football at all against South Carolina and Alabama. The Rebels suffered two more losses later in the year against Auburn and Mississippi State. In those two defeats, the Rebels biggest weakness was on the defensive side of the football; unable to stop the power rushing game in both instances, with their best defensive lineman, Greg Hardy, out for the year. QB Jevan Snead is no gamebreaker, the SEC’s leader in interceptions this season, struggling with his accuracy, his decision making and his confidence. Shay Hodge and Dexter McCluster were both legitimate playmakers, but this offense lacks many complementary pieces. Oklahoma State has those complementary pieces, as evidenced by their nine win season despite losing star receiver Dez Bryant to ineligibility and star running back Kendall Hunter to injury. The Cowboys came up very short against the two best defenses they faced – Texas and Oklahoma. But Okie State moved the football up and down the field against nearly every other defense they faced, scoring 30+ on eight different occasions. Ole Miss won this bowl last year; we’ll call for a lesser performance this time around against an Oklahoma State team that came up short in the Holiday Bowl last December. 2* Take Oklahoma State.

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