Ole Miss steamrolled The Citadel in a 49-0 thrashing on Saturday to get to 9-1, and on Sunday the Rebels were installed as huge favorites to roll over struggling Florida in Week 12.
The 6th-ranked team in the country opened as a 13-point favorite at home over the Gators in this Saturday’s 7 p.m. ET kickoff on ESPN. The total for the game was set at 53.5, with Ole Miss at 5-1 in the SEC while reeling Florida arrives in Oxford with a 3-6 overall record and a 2-4 mark in the SEC.
Florida reached another low in a season full of them on Saturday night with a 38-7 loss at Kentucky, with the Gators being held scoreless for the final 3 quarters of a forgettable night in Lexington. UF recently fired head coach Billy Napier, and it is playing out the string in 2025 while Ole Miss is playing for everything.
The Rebels are in the mix for a trip to the SEC Championship Game, but their aspirations are higher than that, with Lane Kiffin‘s team also battling for a College Football Playoff berth and a shot at a national championship.
Ole Miss comes in with a 3-game winning streak after that lone loss of the season to Georgia, and it will try to make it 4 in a row against the struggling Gators.
Here is the opening line for that matchup as well as the rest of the Week 12 slate:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
