the final s.e.c. game of the week in the 2009 season here in starkville where the visiting ole miss rebels have a slim 13-10 advantage, moments away from third quarter football. dave neal, alongside my partner andre ware and we came in talking eight bout mccluster and dixon. if you had to go individual battles, mccluster won. >> i think so. but the one difference is the touchdown run by anthony dixon. he has kept mississippi state in this game. they have coralled him, made it tough on him offensively, but it's the one touchdown run that keeps mississippi state one score away from tying this football game. >> dave: in terms of running the football, dixon only had 17

yards on the ground. how do you get him freed up? >> andre: i think you just have to continue to feed him and let him get hot. een good in kickoff returns, in junior college, 32.2 yards and two touchdowns as well per return. >> dave: five of eight with the one interception. anthony dixon at tailback. and a couple

. >> dave: a couple of yards for dixon. you ask how do you get a guy like anthony dixon started. until you hit a couple of passes down the feed, it may be a little tough for anthony dixon to get himself started, because there are so many in the box for ole miss. >> dave: let's check in with kara. >> i had the opportunity to check in with coach mull an few moments ago and asked him how you get that momentum back? >> he said getting the ball to start the second half, being methodical, making some plays, and avoiding giving up the big play. they did that well in the first half, except for that last

touchdown pass to shay hodge. >> dave: there is relf in the game, he has another first down. he's at the 35, down to the 37- yard line. >> andre: relf has been a difference-maker in this football game for mississippi state. watch the defensive end, collapses inside west the fake. >> dave: lee dropped back at the 40! trahan, who already has an interception this afternoon. >> andre: usually a fast

player off the edge, but that foot injury has slowed him down, but sure didn't look like it bothered him that much right there. he is just playing tough for ole miss defensively. had the interception in the first half. boy, he s he playing with some less than ideal circumstances today, though. >> dave: second down. will throw out of the shotgun. green won't get it. johnny brown on the coverage. that will bring on third down and long.

dixon to the 31. that is well shy of the first down. >> andre: if they kicked it from here, it would be a 48- yard field goal. >> dave: dan mullen calling out the kick team. the longest this year is 43. >> andre: boy, that sack really hurt them, because any positive points without the sack would have them a lot closer than where they're sitting to try this. >> dave: off the hold of chris cameron. snap is good, hold is good. here the kick on the way. it's good! no harm down. 48 yards! a new career long for the

junior out of the woodlands, texas. >> andre: well, what good football game. >> dave: so the bulldogs take the opening drive of the second half and tie the game up at 13.

>> dave: tied at 13, the ole miss and mississippi state rivalry going back to 1901. >> andre: you told me, you have been a part of a few . >> andre: you told me earlier the n the week it was going a good football game and a good environment, and it has been exactly that so far. >> dave: there are a lot of

rivalry games that get attention nationally, this one flies under the radar, but it has just as much passion as any rivalry in the country. time to look at our nissan heisman moment. today we're going to look at andre's candidates. we've been trying to pick your brain on who you think might have the odds on favorite chance to win this. >> andre: well, i'll tell you what, colt mccoy put on a performance the other night unlike any we may have seen this season, and not only passing the football, but running it. mark ingram held in check yesterday by the auburn tike tigers, and a little hip injury. we don't know how he's going to respond to that, so getting tight down to the end of the race. >> dave: mccluster, first carry of the second half, gets about a yard or two. tim tebow ready to go as he

wraps up his senior season and his career there at florida's locker room, get yourself points and get right back in this football game and then play s e sound defense. >> andre: right now, they are ahead of the chains at 2nd . >> andre: second down and8. >> dave: endaround. big play by jamar, as he wraps up grande. jamar chaney playing in his final game as a bulldog. he originally signed with georgia.

wasn't able to accept him for some reasons, so called mississippi state and told them he had a great player. how good as mcphee been this year in. >> andre: he has been outstanding. basically played one year of high school football, two years of junior college, and now starting in the sec. he has been great for this defense. >> dave: two-time college all american. led jc players, all of them, the last two years in stats in his junior college career. tyler campbell punts it away,

but flagsen down. i believe that was a delay of game. >> reporter: before the 123457, delay of game, 97 on the offense. five-yard penalty. still fourth down. >> andre: this is one of those chess match deals. i would never accept this penalty if i was a head coach. you're basically trying to back up so you can down the football. i would never accept the penalty. make it uncomfortable for the punter. >> dave: campbell's long this year has been 71 yards. not much of a rush by the bulldogs. it's a wobbly kick. bumpas will have a does to return it. out to the 30-yard line.

mississippi state. >> dave: the tack . >> dave: dixon breaks a couple of tackles. >> andre: he came to camp, was a little bit overweight, got in dan mullen's dog house a little bit, but then he lost the weight and got his quickness back. i think that's what added to his game, his quickness and the size was already there. boy, does he look good as a

runner. >> dave: that handoff todixon. lockett, dixon with some more yards to his credit. >> andre: giving anthony dixon a little breather here, stalworth, the backup checks in. >> dave: third down and 10. here is relf out of the shotgun. he'll keep it on the right side. he'll felt about four on the carry. chris relf has done a really nice job keeping the football on the ground for mississippi state. >> dave: , this is what he does best. run the football in the open

field. showing it inside, and then he's out on the edge. he has tremendous speed to get himself up the field and make positive yards. something that just giving ole miss a little bit extra to account for. >> dave: 77 yards on the ground for relf. inside handoff. excuse me, relf keeps it. still running. he's in ole miss territory at the 49. that will bring on third down and about 3. >> andre: he fooled me, too, big guy. looks like he's giving it to robert elliott down inside, and pulls it right back and turns up the field. what i like is that he gets north and south. not trying to fake anybody out. he's a north and south runner, and that's hard for a lot of young quarterbacks to learn. >> dave: relf cuts it back inside. needs three. now driving his way for the extra yard. cornell and company trying to

get him on the ground, but relf, 6'3", 235, just hard to bring down. and that's a first down. >> andre: i don't know what was said in that locker room, but this bulldogs team has came out in the second half on a mission. they are now back on the move. nice message from dan mullen at halftime. first down and 10. looking for leon berry. and that will give us an opportunity to check in. >> 24 unanswered points now for south carolina.

steven garcia to the freshman, 24-7 gamecocks. >> dave: we'll get back to you in a moment. thanks for the update. now need the 40, lost his shoe in the process.

>> dave: here is relf. boy, he got popped at the 35- yard line. boy, relf is a big boy, isn't he? >> andre: yeah, 235 pounds. actually taller than anthony dixen and weighs about the same. lee is a little bit undersized. then you have relf more of a

running quarterback. he's not that bad, but what he does present, i think it gives them a little more room to throw the football when he's in the game, that the thread of running it, keeps the linebacker close to the line of scrimmage. >> stray hand drags him down. now they -- with -- he had to

help referral. good him close to a first down. and relf convert this first down to keep the chains moving, but basically this has been i'm going to line up and i'm going to be toucher than you. we're going to run the football, this is what we do, stop us. insult to of -- the shotgun, to dixon, to the 15, to the 5. stopped at the four-lard line! it will be first and goal

bulldogs behind the play of anthony dixon. >> andre: watch the stiff arm. makes one guy miss. against a good running back like anthony dixon, he will

make you pay. >> dave: stalworth falls forward to about the three. just the 25th training. >> dave: with relf, you get another threat to get you in the end zone. >> andre: in the end zone, touchdown! and the bulldogs are back out in front! t relf showing a bit of that arm?

. >> dave: let's take a look at our time of possession story in this quarter we and it is owned by the dull bulldogs. >> andre: basically all on the ground. they got down and dirty and said we are going to do whatth we do best. stop us from running the football. couldn't do it on that drive. >> dave: this kick will be taken by grande at the 7-yard line. he runs into traffic at the 30, and dropped at the 33-yard line. let's go back to that touchdown. a couple of guys got wide open. >> andre: yeah, and it's because of the way off to the run the football in the drive

that opens up everything. you have a route right here by green. the play action holding everybody up, and you have two guys wide open in the back of the end zone. is a a nice little lob, and marcus green able to reel it in. >> dave: let's see what ole miss has in store. that play didn't work. wright the first man on the stop.

he told the fans tharp i going i to play a role in revisiting to this program. it helps them in recruiting. there are some recruits here today, and they are feeling a big game atmosphere with this rivalry game. >> dave: intercepted. mitchell, thrown out of bounds at the 39-yard line.

>> andre: one guy, your favorite target, shay hodge, and mitchell read the eyes of jevan snead. >> dave: the third interception for mitchell on the year. >> andre: watch the eyes of jevan snead. never leaves hodge. goes there, and mitchell gonna make him play. you see it there, mccluster on a corner route, they cover it up. >> dave: it's almost like mitchell was running the route. >> dave: turnovers, houston nutt said going into halftime, we have to take care of the football. >> dave: first order of business right now if to you're mullen. you're telling your players take care of the football,

because we have basically got a field goal. if we have a first down, we can kick a field goal and extend this lead in the football game. you don't want to turn it right back over to ole miss and give the momentum back to the rebels. >> dave: dixon met again at the line of scrimmage. tough running against the front to four of ole miss.

>> third down, elliott stopped on the spot. the huge those tackle, 330- pounder out of waynes borough, mississippi. >> you know, it's poker face right there. he's not smiling, not frowning, just poker face. and they don't move the football. two yards, as you described, and it's a little bit too long to attempt a field goal, so you're basically forced to go for it here if you're the bulldogs. >> ole miss having trouble getting their defense on the field. they do get -- i might toss the football here. will throwth. four, man rush. of the middle, wide open is bumphis. he's to the 10, the 5, he's gonna give 'em 6!

>> andre: okay, forget about running the football! the freshman from mississippi has given the bu the freshman from tupelo, mississippi has given the bulldogs the lead.

>> dave: mississippi state mississippi state has played a brutal schedule. you wouldn't know it here in week 13 of the season where they lead ole miss by 14. >> andre: what an outstanding atmosphere. and this is definitely something to build on going forward. you see the series history here. the home team has won 9 of the last 10 match. ups. but, boy, when you start thinking ago going forward, they're not going to a bowl game this year, but they'll be in position next season. >> dave: boy, a short kick, taken at the 15, and the special teams coverage has been phenomenal today for the bulldogs. chris smith hit on the tackle. there's chad bumphis, the man

who had that touchdown reception moments ago. >> andre: this is kind of how it has gone for the bulldogs this half. great effort by the bulldogs here in the second half. >> dave: gain of 16 on the

play. first down. deflection. off one tackle, into mississippi state territory at the 48-yard line. mcphee in on the tackle. and that will do it for their third quarter. that was completely owned and dominated by mississippi state. not only the time of possession scoreboard as well. mississip mississippi state has won 18 straight when leading after the third quarter. we'll see if that streak can stay alive. but something tells me the rebels have a little bit left me the rebels have a little bit left in the tank. g morning, sunshine.

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little bit. they're gonna -- this is gonna be against the defense, against zack smith the safety. >> andre: summerss. >> dave: 48 yards on the touchdown pass. jevan snead now with 18 touchdown passes this season. >> andre: you see the play action fake, keeps the

linebackers in, let's one go, and marshay summers runs right -- marquise summers runs right under the football. >> dave: good throw by snead, and banks is a guy that was a cornerback, a true freshman, due to an injury to zack submit had to come in, wasn't until week 6 that he even got to be a safety, never played safety all year. so he lobs up one on one, and summers just took it to him. >> andre: you don't want to allow ole miss when you have a lead like that to score quickly. you want to make them earn it. that will get you back into the football game. took them 7 seconds to score. now they're right back in it. what a football game. snead showing the i leadership

you need from the quarterback position. >> dave: i've been doing this game for a while, and this is so nice after last year's 45-0 debacle at oxford. this is a lot more fun. >> andre: tough to do it when they're 45-0. >> dave: the third quarter belong all to mississippi state, but ole miss may have taken some of that right back. >> andre: well, you don't want to give up the quick score,

which summers basically just it's a it up right there. -- eight it up right there. still a long way to go. >> dave: mississippi state, their m.o. has to be what they've been doing, just eating up the yardage and the game clark. >> andre: that's right. and relf has been spectacular, and you look at the effort of anthony dixon, the touchdown run he had in the first half, and all of a sudden when you have relf in there and mix him into the equation, it's extra room to run for dixon. >> andre: and now they have to at least honor the pass from relf. >> andre: yeah, he's thrown two touchdown passes in the second half, you better honor it. >> dave: mississippi state in ole miss territory. driving down to the 39-yard line. ingram back-up safety makes the tackle.

>> andre: and i like the approach of dan mullen. we're going to do it until you stop us. high school coach, you hear me talk about him a whole lot, dub harris, we were going to run 21 pitch until you stopped it, and then when you stopped 21, we would run 29, go to the other side with it. >> dave: i feel dub and i are friends. >> andre: loved the man. >> dave: jonathan cornell with 10 tackles today. he came to play. >> andre: yeah, he has. he had the tipped pass that patrick trahan has able to come away with. he's been all over the field for this rebels defense. now, you look at it, they need a stop defensively in the worst way. >> dave: anthony dixon to the top of your screen to to the

far right of chris relf. >> andre: that play clock sunder 5 seconds. they're gonna have to call a time-out. >> dave: and with that, anthony dixon having a little chitchat on the far side with and of the rebel players. it is the egg bowl. ba rebel players. back in a moment.

>> dave: i think he is in shock. that look says it all. this is a double header you do not want to miss. watch mississippi state battle syracuse at the st. pete times forum in tampa.

>> andre: boy, college hoops . >> dave: third down, anthony. they will keep it any the ground. it is ticksen, and that will be a first down. >> andre: an excellent call when you have to five yards, you go to your work horse, anthony dixon, the difference maker on your football team right here, just going to give it to him. nice block inside. you get him one on one with anybody, it's tough to bring him down. >> let's go to rob stone. >> akron and louisville fired their head coaches today, but it appears the vacancy at memphis will be filled by lsu

running back coach larry porter. ls knew to action a little later tonight as they host arkansas ark at 7:00. >> dave: larry porter, good move for him. >> andre: yeah, there will be a lot of movement going on in the next couple of weeks in college football, as guys look to fill vacancies, and try to blaze a key cuting trail a little bit faster, maybe get a jump start on recruiting for memphis. >> dave: and mullen had to jump start it, as quick as he could. last year when he got hired as mississippi state's het coach. >> andre: he jump started things this second half, that's for sure. >> dave: just outside the 20-

yard line. bumphis makes them miss. inside the 15, down to the 13! tillman finally brings him down! but three rebels had a chance to make the tackle and couldn't do it! >> andre: boy, he is tough to get down. but they've got a big concern right now, as the starting center for ole miss is down. watch the block of the quarterback right there. relf working against tillman, the defensive end. and you'll see it. look at the block right there. you don't have to just pancake a guy. you get just enough of him, just up him just long enough, but bumphis, has he had a nice second half in his own right. right now there are concerns, because their leader on the offensive line is down. >> dave: a junior out of mississippi is down on the field. we'll take a break and he is do.

>> dave: back in a moment.

>> dave: mississippi state leading by seven. a player being looked at by the training staff . >> dave: brignone getting looked at. coach go ahead really love him as a leader. -- coaches really love him as a leader. dixon, to the 10, first down. ingram the unen reviewable task too try to -- unenviable task to try to tackle dixon. >> andre: you have to be impressed with mississippi state in the second half.

they have just inflicted their will on this ole miss defense. they have yet to be stopped running the football here in the second half. amazing stuff. >> dave: 237 yards on the ground for mississippi state. now another six on the scoreboard! >> dave: wow is all i can say

to the way mississippi state has run the football today. ole miss came in averaging just 124 yards allowed on the game. ole miss has racked up 268 rushing yards and also put up 34 o been great.

>> andre: yes, three of five in the air for 43 yards and two touchdown passes all coming . >> dave: that kickoff will sale out of bounds, so ole miss will have good field position. let's go back to that touchdown, andre. >> andre: let's take a look at it. going to get a couple of down blocks here. none more important than the block right here that's gonna seal the deal by the left guard. watch 55 seal it up for chris relf, right there. occupies two guys, unleashes the quarterback on the secondary, and he's able to walk into the end zone. grea quarterback on the secondary and he is able to walk into the end zone. . >> dave: 34 points today for the bulldogs. dexter