Fall Report: Ole Miss

OXFORD, Miss. — Some teams avoid talking about it out of superstition, like a no-hitter in progress. Some teams avoid it out of Belichickian conditioning to focus on day-to-day small details, and not get distracted by the big picture — On to Cincinnati.

Ole Miss is one of those teams that embraces it. After wrapping up last Sunday’s 10-inning intrasquad scrimmage, the Rebels met as a team in the outfield, and when the meeting was over, they broke with a shout of, “Omaha!”

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