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'Thank God for Mississippi': A weekend with little precedent

Death, taxes and one of the Mississippi schools finishing last in the West. For a long time, that was the constant in the SEC. Times have changed, and the state welcomes two top-12 matchups on Saturday.
By Olin Buchanan
October 2, 2014
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This week's games
Texas A&M at Mississippi State; Alabama at Ole Miss; LSU at Auburn; Florida at Tennessee; Vanderbilt at Georgia; South Carolina at Kentucky

SEC's eyes fall on Ole Miss, Miss. State

“Thank God for Mississippi.”

That’s a common adage that over decades was once uttered quite frequently, particularly in the American South.




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