So.. What's the buzz in Oxford, MS?

Well.. Coach Orgeron and his distinctive vocal stylings have created quite the musical sensation...

Check Out the Music Video for 'The Coach O Song'

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These players stepped up during Saturday's Egg Bowl:

Ole Miss receiver Mico McSwain: McSwain finished the day with modest numbers (two carries for 15 yards and three catches for 29 yards), but I was impressed with his toughness. He bailed out quarterback Brent Schaeffer several times. Early in the second quarter, Schaeffer fired high in traffic, McSwain hauled in the pass by making a good adjustment. He then turned upfield, juked a defender, and gained 11 yards. McSwain made another nice catch with defenders around him in the third quarter for a gain of seven. Both of those catches came on drives that ended in Ole Miss field goals. Those points would not have been on the board without McSwain's grabs.

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My final memory of our final regular season game will be the diehard Ole Miss fans standing and singing in their endzone seats. They were watching the Mississippi players carry the Golden Egg off Hollingsworth Field just a few yards away from where the final field goal missed.

Everyone wearing red and blue seemed to forget that the Rebels just finished a 4-8 season. There will be no Bowl Game this year. It doesn't matter. The Egg Bowl is all these people cared about today.

And isn't that what this journey has really been about? Sure, we've paid attention to the football players and coaches, but really, we've been impressed with the thousands of fans who attend every game, regardless of their favorite team's record.

What a way to end our regular season. A classic rivalry, one of the oldest in college football. Fourteen points in the final 3:29. A fourth and inches stop by Mississippi State trailing by three points. A desperation Bulldogs drive that began at the Ole Miss 48 yard line with 42 second remaining. A 51 yard field goal attempt with hopes of forcing overtime that fell wide to the left. A three-point win for the home team, the Rebels of Ole Miss, 20-17.

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It keeps getting better and better each week.

Last Saturday, I was blown away by The Quad at Alabama. Today, it was The Grove at Ole Miss that topped all tailgates I've seen thus far.

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The Egg Bowl will pit the two worst offensive teams in the SEC against each other. Ole Miss (3-8 overall, 1-6 SEC) hosts Mississippi State (3-8, 1-6) for nothing more than pride. It's an opportunity for both of these teams to end the season on a high note and carry momentum into 2007. While we are not looking at great teams, we are looking at a great, historic rivalry, and we'll see some great players in this year's Egg Bowl.

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Two weeks remain on our adventure through the Southeast and the heart of college football.

We've crossed every SEC campus off of our list, except for one. And this morning we packed up the truck and headed to the only school we had not seen yet - the University of Mississippi.

Last week we had Iron. This week we get Eggs.

The Egg Bowl - Ole Miss and Mississippi State's annual showdown - means as much to the state of Mississippi as the Iron Bowl does to Alabama.

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