From the Clark Ford Studio in Oxford, Mississippi, MBW Digital proudly presents the Oxford Exxon podcast.

I'd say thanks for tuning in, but why am I going to give you a round of applause for something that you're supposed to do, to be frank?

And now, here are your hosts, Chase Palm.

And broadcast school is really paid off.

And Neil McCrady.

I deserve to be on TV.

My good friend, Ryan Brown, the next round joins on the show, as he does quite frequently throughout the football season and beyond. Ryan, how are you? Neil, I'm fantastic. You're doing okay? Yeah, I'm doing great. It's been a busy week. I don't know whether I'm braced for like a super busy month of December or what I'm looking at.

We'll get to that in a minute.

Obviously, the focus right now is on Ole Miss and Alabama Saturday at 2.30.

Alabama's an 11.5 point favorite.

I've talked to so many people who think that line's too big.

I initially thought it was too small, and people have talked me out of it, and they've taught me into thinking Ole Miss could cover, and maybe Ole Miss could win because of

Alabama's road woes.

You watch Alabama every week, obviously, because you have to talk about them a lot.

Are the road woes just a – is it a real thing or is it something that we're

just sort of picking on? Is it coincidental or is there something that's happening with that team

where they're not as good as they used to be on the road? No, I think we've got a good enough

sample size to now know it is a legit issue. It's not just occasional. Really, if you go back to last two seasons,

if you combine the last two seasons, true road games, not neutral sign now, not Atlanta or the

college football playoff, but true road games, Alabama has only played one good one, and that was

Mississippi State last year in Starkville. Outside of that, Alabama has been

at times bad on the road. And this year, just as an example, you know, at Texas, Alabama had

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