Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and Adam Breneman look ahead to Saturday night’s clash between the SEC foes - each trying to avoid a second loss early in the conference slate. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Ole Miss LSU, it's always one of my favorite matchups every single year night game in Death Valley.

But I'm specifically looking at Ole Miss defensive line against Ls U's offensive line, Ls U's offensive line has only given up two sacks so far this season.

That's best in the sec.

Ole Miss defensive front has sacked the quarterback 24 times this year.

LSU has a emerging running back in Cayden Durham that I think that that matchup, you know, LS US offensive line, run, blocking against Ole Miss run defense and also the way that Ole Miss has been able to get after the quarterback, the way that the offensive line for LSU has been able to protect Garrett Nussmeier.

Like that is where this game is going to be won and lost.

It's a great quarterback matchup too, just like Jackson Dart Nussmeier, two guys that can around those two guys have a lot to prove and I mean, whoever wins this game with all the chaos that's going on in college football could find themselves in, you know, the top five after this, I hesitate to use must win in any game this early in the new college football playoff format.

However, that being said with the games that are still on the schedule for both of these teams, this feels about as close to must win as possible.

Both of them need the resume win.

Both of them can't afford to take the loss and both of them have tough games looking ahead in the schedule.

So to me, this comes back to the fact that there are two coaches involved in this, a head coach on each side that have massive expectations that are supposed to be masters of the chess match in the chess game inside this game.

They're going to have to win that.

Like this is one of those moments where I'm looking at each coaching staff and saying, hey, you gotta find a way to get the best out of you guys.

Mistakes will matter.

The margins are thin on this game.

And I honestly believe that the loser is on the outside looking in and trying to make a difference in the sec and in the college football playoff, this feels like a college football playoff disqualify game.

Like no longer are there qualifying games in a four team playoff now that the margin for error is so much bigger in college football?

Well, you have a disqualify.

I don't see either of these teams getting to the college football playoff with the losses that they already have on their resumes with.

If you drop this game

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