Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
The thing is we can and have to IMO beat Ole Miss to continue to improve our standing because we're both in state.

No different than Tennessee and Vanderbilt in that regard.
Yes you do. But dwelling on it and letting it effect you when they do well is one of the reasons things became so "toxic" pre-Leach. We've had a mutually assured destruction approach since the 1910s. and all it really has done is rotate who is on probation every 3-5 years. It's why a friend of mine says the OM/MSU rivalry is like watching two hobos in knife fight over a can of beans. My measure is "Are we doing well, and what can we do to get better". If Ole Miss is doing better than us, it just means that's one more team we need to work to get better than. No different than A&M, Auburn etc.