No. 12 Ole Miss (5-2, 3-2 SEC) hosts Auburn (4-3, 2-3) at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi, on Halloween afternoon with kickoff set for 12:45 p.m. ET. Both teams are coming off losses to ranked opponents: Ole Miss fell 34-27 at Texas, while Auburn was beaten 38-17 by LSU after upsetting then-No. 1 Georgia the previous week.
The Rebels will be without star running back Kewan Lacy, who dislocated his shoulder against Texas, placing more pressure on quarterback Trinidad Chambliss (1,926 passing yards, 16 touchdowns). Auburn counters with dual-threat quarterback Byrum Brown, who has accounted for 1,842 total yards this season.
Ole Miss has won the last two meetings, snapping a six-game winning streak by Auburn in the series. The latest odds list the Rebels as 11.5-point favorites with an over/under of 57.5 points; Ole Miss is -455 on the money line.
The SportsLine Projection Model, which simulates each FBS game 10,000 times, projects 57 combined points and leans to the under on the total, hitting 52% of the time in simulations. The model also indicates one side of the spread hits well over 50% of the time. The model enters Week 9 on a 68-59 run on top-rated college football picks.
