re: Vegas line for Tiger regular season wins this year was 8

Ole Miss is not a good team this year. They are an average team. They beat a Texas team that, the the week before, had lost to a very average BYU in the most humiliating way possible. The Texas defense, to start the season, could not stop the run at all. After the Ole Miss loss they fired their DC and things have improved somewhat.

And calling Texas undefeated in the Big-12 isn't terribly meaningful when they so far haven't played 3 of the teams in the top half of the division. The only win they have over a decent team is Oklahoma, and that's a team with their own set of problems.

Meanwhile Ole Miss has feasted on a bunch of average to bad SEC team and lost to every good team they faced. They aren't a good team, and especially weren't a good team when we faced their 3rd string defense. The problem is that we, also, aren't a particularly good team. Some parts of the team are very good, sometimes, but lately we definitely haven't been a good team.

The SEC is largely down this year, and we are in the middle of the pack in a down year. Getting to 9 wins instead of 8 isn't going to change that fact. Hell, 3 SEC teams are already at 9 wins, and one of them is Missouri.