Locked On Ole Miss - Daily podcast on Ole Miss Rebels Football, Basketball & Baseball

Michael Katz of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal spent six weeks and eleven interviews on one Kewan Lacy story — and the centerpiece is a single high school run that every person he talked to brought up unprompted.

Game day. No. 9 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium, 7:30 ET on ABC — the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the Week 1 schedule.

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00:00 Strong defensive line prospects

03:58 Louisville run game challenges

07:41 Discussing Ole Miss front 7

10:20 Why the shirt is popular

16:23 Starting research while on vacation<...

Steven Willis joined the Can't Miss Matchup segment to preview the only game between two ranked teams this weekend — and gave the scouting report on Will Echoles that nobody in the national media has.

Two days to kickoff. No. 9 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium, 7:30 ET Sunday night on ABC.

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0:00 [FILL FROM CASTMAGIC AFTER RECORDING]

📌 THREE THINGS
1. Will Echoles is the name to know. He's from Houston, Mississippi, found as a low three-star by defensive line coach Randall Joyner, and he'd grown into a near five-star by the time he s...

Everyone's been reporting that the SEC went to federal court to stop LSU from playing three former Ole Miss players. That isn't what the filing does — and understanding the difference explains everything about where this is heading.

One day to kickoff. No. 9 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium, 7:30 ET Sunday night on ABC.

⚠️ Recorded Friday at noon. This story has moved daily.

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00:00 LSU statement and political reactions

06:12 Concerns about LSU situation

09:37 Previewing the Louisville game

12:35 Poncho's versatile and...

Kevin Rogers of Locked On Bets and Paramount Sports joins to break down all five SEC openers that matter — including a neutral's honest read on how close Ole Miss actually was last season.

One day to kickoff. No. 9 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium, 7:30 ET Sunday night on ABC — the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the Week 1 schedule.

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00:00 Auburn's recent performance and challenges

04:50 Alabama's Quarterback Transition

07:02 Alabama's struggling running game

10:33 Poncho's Natty Back Guarantee and Offer

14:53 Clemson's quarterback struggles

18:41...

Steven Willis joined Ruben Diaz and Richard Denson on The 24th Floor to preview Ole Miss and Louisville — and shared something that hasn't been on Locked On Ole Miss yet.

Two days to kickoff. No. 9 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium, Sunday night on ABC — the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the entire Week 1 schedule.

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0:00 [FILL FROM CASTMAGIC AFTER RECORDING]

📌 THREE THINGS
1. The 306-carry question is answered. John David Baker was asked whether Kewan Lacy runs it that many times again and said no — they do not want that and they are...

Todd Wade — Ole Miss legend and NFL veteran — says the thing nobody's saying about Louisville's rebuilt offensive line: the cost isn't just protection. It's leadership.

Two days to kickoff. No. 9 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium, 7:30 ET Sunday night on ABC — the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the Week 1 schedule.

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00:00 Challenges with Offensive Line Changes

03:51 Importance of team leadership roles

08:21 Discussing game strategy and rankings

11:44 Poncho's versatile Ole Miss shirts

15:43 Improving the running game

17:22 Potential in the running game...

The season is finally here. Steven Willis lays out three reasons Ole Miss beats Louisville on Sunday — and says Jeff Brohm's name in every one of them, because Brohm has built a career on beating teams that were better on paper.

Two days to kickoff. No. 9 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium, Sunday night on ABC — the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the entire Week 1 schedule.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Why Ole Miss will win

03:19 Louisville's offensive line challenges

07:30 Jeff Brohm's game strategy analysis

12:35 Poncho's Natty Back...

Steven Willis joined Locked On SEC to preview the only game between two ranked teams this weekend — and named the right tackle nobody in that press room asked about.

Two days to kickoff. No. 9 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium, Sunday night on ABC.

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0:00 [FILL FROM CASTMAGIC AFTER RECORDING]

📌 THREE THINGS
1. The right tackle. Tommy Kinsler is likely to take the first rep, with a real caveat attached — he's around 350 pounds and Ole Miss plays fast, so Carius Curne needs to be ready and a platoon is live. Terez Davis...

SEC powerhouses brace for shocking upsets as the 2026 college football season kicks off. Can Auburn avoid history as the first SEC team to lose on Disney+, or will Baylor spoil Byrum Brown’s anticipated breakout? Heated predictions fly as Arkansas, Alabama, and Vanderbilt set expectations—and the debate over the league’s top new quarterbacks intensifies.

The SEC Squad digs into quarterback controversies, Heisman dark horses like Keelon Russell and KJ Jackson, and the challenges facing new head coaches Alex Golesh and Ryan Silverfield. Key matchups including LSU vs. Clemson and Ole Miss vs. Louisville promise fireworks, as the pa...

Dalton Pence of Locked On Louisville came on to tell Steven Willis that this week's central take doesn't hold up — and then named the matchup that flipped his own prediction.

Three days to Louisville. No. 9 vs No. 24 in Nashville, Sunday night on ABC, the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the Week 1 schedule.

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00:00 Podcast crossover introduction

03:17 Louisville's performance in big games

06:58 Concerns about Ke'Juan Lacy's workload

11:13 Poncho's game day collection

14:20 Ke'Juan Brown's role in the game

18:19 Focus on defensive strategy

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Spencer McLaughlin has Ole Miss on upset alert. Steven Willis went on Locked On College Football to argue about it — and by the end, both of them had landed on the exact same final score without knowing it.

Four days to Louisville. No. 9 vs No. 24, Sunday night on ABC, the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the Week 1 schedule.

📌 THREE THINGS
1. The Brohm numbers that explain the fear: 10 wins, 9 wins and 9 wins in three years at Louisville — while Purdue, the program he left, has gone 4, 1 and 2 since. Spencer's read is that Brohm is as good a quarter...

Bill Flowers has Ole Miss winning 48-21 — and he'll tell you exactly why the offense could put up historic numbers this season.

Four days to Louisville. No. 9 vs No. 24, Sunday night on ABC, the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the Week 1 schedule.

Steven Willis brings in the former Ole Miss receiver for the weekly legend segment: why Louisville is the perfect Week 1 opponent, why he pushed back on this show's own take about the mismatch up front, the coaching failure he still blames for 2004, and the play he called himself to win a ga...

Every preview of Ole Miss and Louisville this week has been about Clev Lubin and AJ Green. That's the wrong line. Louisville lost ten scholarship offensive linemen this offseason — the most of any position group on the roster — and returns one starter. Jeff Brohm also said out loud on Monday that his interior defensive line is inexperienced and his strength is on the outside. Both of Louisville's soft spots are interior, and interior is exactly where Ole Miss is best.

Four days to Louisville. Seventeen to LSU.

Steven Willis puts four press...

🔴 LIVE [DAY] at 8:00 PM ET / 7:00 CT — Rebel Squad, with Daylan Flowers and Tyler Komis.

Four days until No. 9 Ole Miss plays No. 24 Louisville at Nissan Stadium — the only ranked-versus-ranked game on the entire Week 1 schedule, standalone on ABC Sunday night.

Two people who have been in the building all month, live, taking your questions.

WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO

The job nobody asked about. Right tackle is the only unsettled spot on this roster. Pete Golding publicly put a timeline on it — decide one week, announce the next. Then he took 23 minutes of questi...

Ole Miss eyes a national title push as quarterback Trinidad Chambliss and a revamped defense anchor their preseason No. 5 ranking. Can Chambliss’ dynamic mobility and Heisman-level play elevate the Rebels despite questions on the offensive line and an all-new secondary? Host Andy Dirksen spotlights how Pete Golding has retooled the roster, aiming for SEC supremacy and a return to playoff glory.

Key discussions include the impact of losing both starting tackles to the NFL, the influx of Power 4 transfers in the secondary, and the high-stakes showdown against LSU that has tickets soaring. Special teams ace and standout ru...

Fifteen SEC schools — every member except LSU — spent the last 48 hours discussing expulsion, membership probation, refusing to take the field against LSU, and a federal lawsuit against their own conference-mate. That's Ross Dellenger's reporting. Ole Miss is one of the fifteen. Ole Miss also hosts LSU in Oxford in eighteen days.

Louisville in five days. LSU in eighteen. Steven Willis breaks down what the SEC can actually do — the 48-page bylaws never use the word "expulsion," but Section 4.1.2 lets the presidents impose any other penalty they consider appropriate — plus the 72-hour clock nobody is talking about, an...

John Fourcade says a man who signs a professional contract is done — no do-overs, no coming back. Then he tells the story of the 1987 strike season, when Jim Finks caught him at the airport on his way to sign with the Raiders and turned him around, and he crossed the picket line to play for the Saints. Six days to Louisville. Steven Willis brings in the former Ole Miss quarterback for the weekly legend segment: why Nashville plays as a home game, why he'd cut Trinidad Chambliss's designed carries roughly in half, the question nobody is asking about what's be...

Tom Mars — the attorney who beat the NCAA for Trinidad Chambliss — laid out why he believes the conferences beat the players in court, and it explains exactly why the SEC wrote the rule it wrote. Plus: Jeff Brohm's giant-killer résumé, and why Ole Miss has the smallest point spread of any team in the SEC in Week 1. Louisville in six days. LSU in nineteen. Steven Willis breaks down the eligibility fight from the legal mechanics up — third-party beneficiary claims, why they work against the NCAA and collapse against a conference, and why a brand-new rule with no enforcement history...

The SEC just announced it will comply with the restraining order. That is not a retreat. That's the trap — and the SEC set it.

Steven Willis is joined by Tom Vanderford, the Mayor of Corinth, for game week.

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⚖️ Why complying is the play. Per Ross Dellenger, the SEC is complying. The whole goal is to get this into federal court — and if they get there, they win. And complying now doesn't mean no penalties later. As soon as this clears, they can hammer them: half a season per in...

No depth charts. No position-by-position walkthrough. Everybody else is doing that today and it's unwatchable. Three takes, and you can hold me to all three in January.

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🏈 ONE: Ole Miss is going to win a game 17-13, and it'll be the most important win of the season. For a decade this program was an offense with a tag-along defense — score 40, hope they score 39. Kiffin built an amusement park and the ride was the offense. That's over. The number that tells the whole story, via Tom Vanderford: the 2025 transfer class was ~70% offense a...

People keep asking how I know so much about the Trinidad Chambliss case. Here's the answer: I watched the whole trial. With my own eyes. That isn't something I heard from somebody who heard it.

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⚖️ What the case was actually about — and it isn't what anybody's saying. It was a medical redshirt. Chambliss got hurt at Ferris State, a Division II school. He qualified, he was going to get it, nobody disputed it at the time — four years ago. Here's where it went sideways: D-II medical-redshirt documentation standards are far less exten...

SEC football heats up as new quarterback battles shake up the Power Five landscape. Keelon Russell (Alabama), Faizon Brandon (Tennessee), Aaron Philo (Florida), KJ Jackson (Arkansas), and Blaze Berlowitz (Vanderbilt) lead a wave of fresh starters, but which newcomer has the biggest upside? The expert panel debates ceiling vs. floor in quarterback decisions, the strategic risks behind starting true freshmen, and whether program loyalty or pure talent is driving these high-stakes choices. Playoff intrigue ramps up as the hosts question if a 9-3 SEC team deserves a playoff spot over powerhouses from softer schedules. With non-conference clashes like Oklahoma-Michigan...

The SEC announced what happens if you break their new rule against pro players. It's worse than anybody expected.

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⚖️ The penalties, one at a time — and each is worse than the last. Per Matt Norlander, CBS Sports. The head coach suspended half a season. Not the player — the coach. The school loses its voting privileges on SEC business matters — and that's a bigger deal than people realize. Say expansion comes up and the conference votes on whether Tulane gets in. You're not at the table. A fine of 50% of that sport's annual b...

Seventeen of Louisville's twenty-two starters are transfers. All five offensive linemen came from somewhere else.

Steven Willis joins Brian Smith of Locked On the Portal to break down the Cardinals eleven days out.

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📋 The roster, counted. Brian went through the OurLads depth chart and tallied it: 17 of 22 offensive and defensive starters are transfers. And the detail underneath it matters more than the number — all five offensive linemen. When you miss on high school linemen, it usually doesn't end well. Isaac Brown is on another level — maybe the fastest back in college...

Greg Sankey wrote down exactly what he was going to do months ago — under oath, in a case that had nothing to do with LSU. And I bet he's glad he did.

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⚖️ The sentence nobody quotes. Sankey filed an affidavit supporting the NCAA in the Charles Bediako matter — the first player with college experience to sign an NBA contract and come back. In it he wrote that letting former pros return creates "a competitive disadvantage and fundamental unfairness" for athletes who didn't pursue a professional career. And then the second half: it's a...

How bad does an idea have to be that every conference in America passes a rule against it inside 48 hours?

The SEC dropped the hammer — 16-0, unanimous. Which means LSU voted for it.

Steven Willis is joined live by Daylan Flowers and Tyler Komis for the Rebel Squad.

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⚖️ Sixteen to nothing. When this first got reported, 14 schools were locked in, one was unsure, and one was dug in — and the one dug in was LSU. By the vote it was unanimous, which tells you Greg Sankey's legal team put the...

Michael Katz asked Pete Golding whether Ole Miss had the FBI sweep the building for bugs. The first thing Golding said was "say that again" — with a smile on his face.

First He Said What?!? episode of the year. Golding talked for 25 minutes to close fall camp and gave us more usable material than any availability all month.

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🚨 The FBI answer, parsed. Golding said he's not sure there was a hiring process. That they probably have a current player whose dad just so happens to work for the FB...

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💰 Why I don't think either one plays a snap. Tennessee has a player suspended two games right now over roughly $429 in pre-draft money he already paid back. One flight. These men were in NFL camps, represented by Drew Rosenhaus. If $429 buys a two-game suspension, a five-figure signing bonus isn't a two-game problem. That's my read — but the precedent exists, and somebody has to explain why it doesn't apply.

🧩 Eighty new players, and they're still adding. Katz's point isn't that LSU's talent is bad — it's that expecting roughly 80 newcomers to come together in on...

College GameDay is coming to Oxford on September 19, exactly like we said three months ago. A lot of you have been waiting nine months to say something — and there's a right way to do it.

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🏈 The right version and the wrong version. That set on the Grove is the biggest platform this fanbase gets all year, and the currency has always been the signs, because the good ones travel — screenshotted and on every timeline in the sport by nine in the morning. Be clever, be funny, be specific, make the point in...

I've spent two shows this week building on what Pete Golding said about his defense. Today I want to ask the uncomfortable question about it.

Steven Willis is joined by Tom Vanderford, the Mayor of Corinth, for the last questions of fall camp.

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🤔 How couched is Pete Golding? He said Edwin Joseph reminds him of somebody he coached before and wouldn't say the name — and he was at Alabama, so everybody had fun with that Google search. He said Keaton Thomas is better than some of the linebackers he had...

Chase Daniel was making the case for Trinidad Chambliss and a national title. Roman Harper interrupted him: "Ole Miss isn't winning a title. It's Ole Miss."

That's the argument. Not the roster. The logo.

Steven Willis is joined by Bossman of Biscuits and SEC for the view of Ole Miss from outside Oxford.

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😤 Brand bias, and the receipt for it. Ole Miss has the best quarterback in the country, the best running back in the country and the best kicker in the countr...

Pete Golding called Keaton Thomas the best linebacker he can remember coaching. Golding was the defensive coordinator at Alabama. Read that sentence twice.

Steven Willis joins Jay Smith of Locked On Sooners for a Locked On College Crossover ahead of Ole Miss–Oklahoma in Norman.

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🛡️ "An eraser." That's Golding's word for Thomas — a second-level player who makes mistakes disappear. Ole Miss hasn't had one in years; Chris Paul in 2024 is the last comparison. And Thomas is now five separate sources in ten days: Pick Six, Brett Ciancia, Har...

Two of these guys are in an NFL training camp right now — and they just went to court to get themselves a college backup plan.

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🚨 What actually happened. Thirty-three athletes sued the NCAA in a Louisiana state court and were granted a temporary restraining order the same day. Three are former Ole Miss starters: Dae'Quan Wright (under contract, Cleveland), Zxavian Harris (waived by New Orleans), and Wydett Williams Jr. (under contract, Arizona). Two of those men are currently employed by NFL teams. That's not a transfer. That's not an eligibility appeal. Th...

Georgia and Texas dominate SEC title predictions, but can Brent Venables' Oklahoma or Lane Kiffin's LSU crash the Atlanta party? Local experts from Locked On break down Heisman hopefuls, upset threats, and the high-stakes quarterback battles shaping the 2026 SEC football landscape. Bold calls fly as panelists name surprise playoff contenders, highlight breakout stars and debate the impact of the SEC’s 9-game schedule on postseason odds. Can the Florida Gators knock off a blue blood? Will Kentucky or Mississippi State shock the league? Key non-conference matchups and the potential for a 9-3 SEC team to make the College Football Pl...

Michael Borkey asked Pete Golding a question I've never heard anybody ask a coach — and Golding gave a name. Which is unheard of in modern college athletics.

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🎯 "Is there a player you HAVEN'T been asked about that we should be asking about?" Golding said yes, a couple of guys are going to be elite — and then named Edwin Joseph. As good as any defensive back he's been around in a long time. Versatility, very quick twitch, a knack for the football. And then he said Joseph reminds him of somebody he's coac...

Pete Golding named Edwin Joseph on Tuesday as the player nobody's asking about. Today I got to ask the one man in America who has actually watched him play.

Steven Willis is joined by Brian Smith of Locked On The Portal — who also operates Locked On Seminoles, and covered Edwin Joseph at Florida State.

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🎯 The scouting report. Joseph came out of Chaminade Madonna in South Florida — a program that wins state titles almost every year, and where Jeremiah Smith played. A four-star on the 247 composite, recruited by Auburn, Louisville...

Bryan Brown didn't tell us what the first scrimmage looked like. He told us what it was for — and once you hear it, the whole thing makes sense.

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🎧 "No coaches on the field." That was the test. Brown said the staff played a lot of players specifically to see the ones who hadn't been in that environment — in the stadium, with nobody out there to help them — to find out who can communicate on their own. Which is why that was an NFL preseason opener: Chambliss took one series, Kewan Lacy barel...

Steven Willis is joined by Daylan Flowers of Ole Miss 365 and Tyler Komis of Ole Miss On SI for the first Squad of the year — three people who cover this program every single day, together, live. ON THE TABLE TONIGHT: 🏈 Fall camp. What's actually happening behind a closed practice — the first scrimmage, who's stood out, who hasn't, and what the staff is really evaluating with three weeks to go. 📊 The season. Ole Miss opens at No. 9 in the AP poll. The schedule, the Playoff path, the games that decide it, and where this team realistically lands. 💬 Your comments. This is the part t...

Ole Miss is 9th in the AP poll and I'm not playing the disrespect card — because there isn't one to play. But I am saying something bigger: there's a legitimate chance this program just found its Kirby Smart.

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👑 Nine is fair — and the bigger claim underneath it. Ole Miss finished No. 3 in the final AP poll last season after 13-2 and a Playoff semifinal. But this team has a head coach with exactly three games at this level and a brand-new coordinator. Voters split the difference. Here's what I keep coming b...

A year ago I told him Ole Miss would be a playoff team and he didn't believe me. This week he came back and said he's fully on board.

Steven Willis is joined by Brett Ciancia of Pick Six Previews — who researches all 68 Power 4 teams himself, talking to head coaches and coordinators, now in his 15th season.

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🤝 The reversal. Brett opens by saying it out loud: you called it, I was skeptical, and this time I'm fully on board. What changed his mind — how Ole Miss bonded and...