‘I’ve had this game circled’: Ole Miss looking to maintain contender status against Alabama
Talk of Champions
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🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Watkins received a hero’s welcome in his return to Louisville over the weekend.
No, not the college he left in the offseason to join Ole Miss football.
He was back at his old high school, Butler (Ky.) Traditional, for its playoff showdown with Bullitt East. The Bears, unfortunately, had their season come to an end, but Watkins, throughout, was swarmed by countless kids and other hometown well-wishers.
“That’s always nice,” Watkins said. “It lets me know I made somewhat of an impact while I was there and the home fanbase kind of roots for you a little bit.”
A day later, however, he was right back to work.
Ole Miss (8-1, 4-1 SEC) was off last week, but on Saturday hosts Alabama (7-2, 4-2) at 2:30 p.m. CT on CBS. The Crimson Tide is fresh off a loss at LSU (7-2, 5-1), meaning the Rebels are looking to keep pace in the SEC West chase rather than seize first-place control outright.
“We all know what’s at stake,” Watkins said. “We got a little bit of a race going on (but) we just want to go 1-0. ‘Bama just happens to be the next team on the schedule.
“Right now we’re playing some really good football. The team’s super focused and super excited to get out and get in this type of environment and go out and perform in front of our home crowd. It’s been about three weeks since we’ve played in front of our home crowd.”
Hear everything Watkins had to say, including the team’s response to recent outside noise, in this edition of Wat’s Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back into Watch Life. |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome back into Watts Life. I'm Vin Garrett at Spirman on Twitter. He's Jordan |
| 0:27.1 | Watkins, current Ole Miss Wide receiver. Hey, buddy. Hey, what's going on? Just living the dream, |
| 0:33.2 | man. How's preparation been for Alabama? You know, I think the preparation has been really good so far. |
| 0:41.1 | I think that's something that we really needed was the bye week |
| 0:43.6 | to kind of get as fresh as possible for a big-time game this weekend. |
| 0:50.7 | Y'all been banged up, and to have that week off, |
| 0:53.0 | could you tell a difference coming back on Sunday? |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah, for sure. |
| 0:57.0 | I think a lot of the guys were running. |
| 0:59.2 | You know, I think that you could tell a difference in the speed, you know, especially |
| 1:03.2 | for the receivers. |
| 1:05.0 | You know, just looking at it and going back and watching film today on practice yesterday. |
| 1:09.8 | I think, you know, a lot of the guys were a lot faster, including myself. And I think that's something |
| 1:15.9 | that could possibly give us the advantage. Did you watch much football this weekend? |
| 1:22.1 | You know, I went back and, you know, watched my old school play. I went home, you know, and watched them play. |
| 1:29.8 | But, you know, obviously I tuned into the Alabama LSU game because those, you know, |
| 1:36.9 | are our next opponent and I did watch a little bit of the Georgia and Tennessee game. |
| 1:40.2 | But, you know, just kind of watch a little bit of football around the league a little bit. |
| 1:44.0 | What was it like going back home, though? Did you get Heroes Welcome? |
| 1:48.9 | Yeah, believe it or not, yeah, I actually did. You know, there's a lot of little kids that |
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