Think of this as a midseason report, as it covers every team ranked in the Top 25.

Nine teams from the SEC began the weekend ranked in the Top 25. Let’s start with the team ranked the highest, No. 4 Ole Miss. Playing at home against Washington State, which is so hard-pressed to find competition now that 10 of the 12 teams in the Pac-12 are gone that it has to play the other remaining team, Oregon State, not once but twice this season, Lane Kiffin’s team went into the game as a 32.5-point favorite. Expecting a blowout, it was anything but: Ole Miss barely escaped with a 24–21 win that wasn’t decided until the last play of the game.

No. 8 Alabama faced No. 14 Missouri on the road to win its fifth game in a row, beating the Tigers 27–24. Although the Crimson Tide had possession of the ball

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