When you play a team from another state, it never hurts to have players on your team from that state. Remember in 1994 when Vanderbilt had Georgia natives Ronnie Gordon and Jermaine Johnson? Seems they grew up wanting to be Bulldogs, but the Dawgs didn't want them. So they went down to Athens on homecoming and hammered Terrell Davis, Hines Ward and Randall Godfrey by a score of 43-30.
This year, we used three Ohioans to beat Miami, five South Carolinians to beat South Carolina, and eight Texans to beat Rice.
Later this season, we'll deploy 12 Alabamians against Auburn, a whopping 21 Georgians against Georgia, 10 Floridians against Florida, one Kentuckian against Kentucky, and two North Carolinians against Duke and Wake Forest.
But when we go to Oxford this week to play Ole Miss and to Starkville next month to play Miss State, we'll be taking along zero Mississippians.
As far as I can tell, nobody on the team has Mississippi ties. Quarterbacks Coach Jimmy Kiser coached at Memphis for one year, and Memphis is often considered to be part of Mississippi, but of course that's a stretch.
On the other hand, Ole Miss has 13 players from Tennessee.
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