There are now just five teams in the SEC with three or fewer losses.
No. 19 Ole Miss (6-4) saw its College Football Playoff hopes disappear on a rainy Sunday in Norman, Oklahoma, as Oklahoma got a 24-17 win over the Rebels. The game was played a day later than originally scheduled after Ole Miss — much to the chagrin of Oklahoma athletic director Roger Denny — was unable to fly to Oklahoma on Friday after its charter plane crew timed out because of the FAA’s nationwide ground stop.
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Ole Miss recovered an onside kick with less than a minute to go after cutting OU’s lead to seven with a field goal. But the Rebels didn’t have any timeouts and Trinidad Chambliss’ Hail Mary into the end zone as time expired fell incomplete.
Oklahoma (6-4) stretched its lead to 14 in the third quarter as the Sooners essentially prevented the Rebels from having the ball. Oklahoma opened the second half with a 12-play, 70-yard TD drive that took 6:33 off the clock. After Ole Miss ran four offensive plays and punted, Oklahoma then embarked on a 14-play, 52-yard drive that ended in a missed field goal after taking nearly eight minutes of game time.
By the time Tate Sandell’s kick sailed wide, over 90 seconds had elapsed in the fourth quarter.
Ole Miss needed just 97 seconds to cut Oklahoma’s lead back to seven at 21-14 thanks to a 26-yard TD pass from Chambliss to Caleb Odom. But then Oklahoma was back to its time-of-possession ways.
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The Sooners drained nearly seven more minutes off the clock as Sandell made a field goal for a 10-point lead.
Just five SEC teams have legitimate playoff hopes
Week 11 was not a good weekend for the SEC teams on the periphery of the playoff. In addition to the Rebels, No. 17 South Carolina, No. 21 LSU and No. 22 Missouri all suffered a fourth loss. And No. 11 Kentucky lost its second straight game to fall to 7-3 overall.
With Georgia, Alabama, Texas and Tennessee penciled into the playoff with two weeks to go, only the Wildcats can still harbor legitimate postseason hopes among everyone else. And Kentucky will probably need some help to make the 11-team field. Wins over Missouri and Louisville in the final two weeks of the season probably won’t be enough without losses from teams above them.
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