"Obviously, it's the best team we've played by far. Ole Miss, even though they were ranked highly, I think it appears now they're not as quite as good a team as in preseason people thought. We'll have a plan in place. We're certainly not going to be favored against Alabama, but we'll have a plan in place.

"We're a team that hopes we can get it in a close game. It seems like every one of our games have been very close at halftime, anyway. Then we've played pretty decently in the second half in most of them. We'll hope this game follows that script right there."