W/O Chad Kelly everything seems possible for Ole Miss: Losing Egg Bowl

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Ole Miss' season has now traveled all the way from "everything is possible" to "we're still going to be fine" to "well, maybe things will be OK" to "this is bad, but it could be worse" to "this is worse."

Quarterback Chad Kelly is out for the season after a devastating knee injury occurred against Georgia Southern, in which Kelly tore both his ACL and lateral meniscus

While he initially resisted the notion, the stark reality of his current predicament will force Freeze to revisit the decision to redshirt five-star freshman Shea Patterson. If the latter wants to play (and if he doesn't, he'd be the first five-star QB to not want to), then you have to at the very least bring him to College Station on Saturday prepared to put him in the game. If not, Pellerin's backup is walk-on Drew Davis.

This is the new reality, and everything is possible, including Mississippi State winning the Egg Bowl. That was not always the case, because Ole Miss' season began with so much promise and the Bulldogs scuffled from the start.

But, in light of MSU beating Texas A&M on Saturday and what just happened to Ole Miss, things have taken a turn. Even the most optimistic outlook for the Rebels' offense the rest of the way does not compare to what Kelly was doing, and that defense is going to have issues stopping the Bulldogs' running game with its own QB, Nick Fitzgerald.