The part that has me curious is if this is going to finish up like Chizik's last season. I remember that Iron Bowl well; we could have scored a hundred on them. Freeze might be able to salvage something, but if they lose to Missou, I've got a feeling the avalanche begins in earnest. Credit where credit's due, they have one HELL of a defense, but if they just stop playing knowing it won't matter, it could get really, really ugly.
A broken spirit can't be fixed mid-season and this isn't like the old days where the kids played for pride or for the university. (Rivalry games just don't mean as much as they used to.) When major college football has become a farm system for the NFL, most of these kids are utterly perplexed by the notion of loyalty.