ESPN College GameDay Headed to Oxford, Miss., for Alabama vs. Ole Miss

ESPN's College GameDay is coming to Oxford, Mississippi, for the first time in the history of the show.

Lee Corso, Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and the crew will be on The Grove to watch Alabama play Ole Miss in a matchup of undefeated SEC West rivals, the show's official Twitter account confirmed Saturday:

Ole Miss played a closer-than-expected game against Memphis in Week 4, struggling to separate from the Tigers in a 24-3 win. It was ugly, but it was enough to keep Hugh Freeze's team undefeated, and it will probably be enough to keep them in the national Top 10.

Alabama is coming off a bye and has dominated (to put it lightly) its recent series with the Rebels. Last year's 25-0 win in Tuscaloosa was actually the closest margin since a 23-10 win in 2010.

All things told, the Crimson Tide have beaten Ole Miss 10 consecutive times and in 21-of-23 meetings since 1989.

The Rebels can be forgiven for their struggles against Memphis—an underrated team—after a week spent looking ahead to Alabama. Freeze did his best to mitigate that, but he knew it was inevitable.

"I'd be foolish to think that they're not hearing all the other," Freeze said before the Memphis game, per Duane Rankin of the Montgomery Advertiser. "We're doing everything we can (to combat that)."

But now that the hurdle has been cleared, officially, Ole Miss can begin earnest preparation for one of the biggest games in school history.

If it wins, it will not only position itself for a run at the SEC title, it might also rise to the Top Five of the Associated Press poll, a spot it hasn't occupied since 1970, per Sports-Reference.com.

After Week 4, the Rebels checked in at No. 10.

Other notable games on the Week 6 schedule include LSU at Auburn, Stanford at Notre Dame, Texas A&M at Mississippi State and Nebraska at Michigan State. Any of those games would have made a quality GameDay backdrop, but even in a stacked week, a matchup of two Top 10 teams was a shoo-in to host the show.

This should be one of the best games of the year.