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Surprising season?

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Maybe it's just going to be that kind of season in college football.

Think about it. Just in the first three weeks, we've seen, not one, but two Hail Marys to win games (thanks, BYU). We've seen Stanford resurrect itself to win at No. 6 USC (fear the Tree). We've seen teams tank that were supposed to be good (see: Arkansas and Auburn). We've seen teams that weren't supposed to be all that be all that (see: Northwestern). We've even seen Leonard Fournette and Nick Chubb do their best Herschel Walker impersonations.

But nothing beats what we saw here Saturday night.

Ole Miss managed to beat No. 2 Alabama in Tuscaloosa for only the second time in history — and for the second straight season — in one of those games that featured more bizarre plays, close calls, no-calls, funky bounces and shifts in momentum than you usually see in a lifetime of watching football.

For much of this muggy, Alabama evening, the No. 15 Rebels were as lucky as they were good in hanging on to beat the Crimson Tide 43-37 at Bryant-Denny Stadium after twice building 20-point leads in the second half only to see Alabama get the ball back twice and have chances to take the lead.

Not until Alabama quarterback Jake Coker's fourth-down pass sailed incomplete with nine seconds remaining in this four-hour marathon could Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze finally exhale.

For more on Chris Low's take from Tuscaloosa, click here.

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