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Talk of Champions

Bill Smith’s Ole Miss legacy is still kicking strong four decades later

Talk of Champions

OMSpirit

Sports

4.9657 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Ole Miss football great William ‘Bill’ Smith is the school’s representative for the SEC Football Legends Class of 2025. 

Smith joins Ole Miss Spirit contributor Brad Logan to discuss the honor, his career and more. Smith will be one of 16 SEC legends recognized at the 2025 SEC Football “Weekend of Champions” from December 5-6 in Atlanta, Georgia.

The group will also be recognized prior to the SEC title game, which will be held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 6.



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0:00.0

It's all Ole Miss all the time.

0:03.2

Here's your host, Brad Logan.

0:06.0

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0:31.9

podcast. And now back to the show. Now welcome in the Believe in Ole Miss podcast, Brad Logan today

0:37.2

and joined by someone

0:39.0

that we all know and someone we all appreciated back in them. The 1980s, that's of course, Bill Smith.

0:45.5

Very topical today, Bill is your named as one of the 2025 SEC football legends. And I know

0:52.4

that was a really cool honor. Thanks for joining us.

0:54.6

Sure, you bet. Thanks for having me, man. Glad to chat with you. So when you got the call

0:58.8

to be a legend, I know that had to been a really cool call. Awesome. Yeah. I mean, it's very

1:04.3

humbling to be recognized for something you did 40 years ago, you know. I think, you know,

1:10.1

I've won some awards over the years. I think this one is the, that means the most to me. Yeah, you know, as we go back at our time machine, of course, a Little Rock native. You made the decision to come to Ole Miss. What was the, what was your decision-making process when you decided to come to school in Oxford? So growing up in Little Rock, you know, you're, it's Arkansas.

1:30.6

I mean, and this was back, you know, before everything was, every game was on TV.

1:35.0

And so you basically as a kid in Little Rock, you were a Razorback fan.

1:38.5

And that's, they made the decision they didn't want to offer.

1:42.2

They had offered another punter in the same class. So

1:44.8

they decided they wanted me to walk on. Well, I had I had plenty of offers from different

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