It's the last links of the week, so let's not waste any time and get right to them:

• Ole Miss finished last year with six straight wins. Can the Rebels do it again after winning last week's game against Arkansas? David Brandt of the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., has the article.

• Rebels offensive lineman Rishaw Johnson remains on suspension after a meeting with coach Houston Nutt, writes Brandt in this notebook.

• Little Rock, Ark., running back Michael Dyer's commitment to Auburn sounds all but official according to this report at VYPE.com. He's going to announce next Friday. But what does that really mean for the five-star recruit? Check out this passage:

• Dyer, who broke the state’s all-time rushing record last week, has ranked Auburn at the top of his list since last summer. However, the 5-foot-9, 205-pounder said he still plans take official visits to Arkansas, Ole Miss, Tennessee and LSU following the season. He will also visit Auburn, rounding out his five official visits. "If a coach wants me to come on a visit, I will," Dyer said. "I’m going to commit to Auburn, but the recruiting process will continue."

• ESPN's Wright Thompson has a lengthy piece about former LSU Hall of Famer Billy Cannon, who hit his high with a Halloween punt return for a touchdown against Ole Miss 50 years ago and his low many years later he was convicted in a money counterfeiting ring.

• ESPN's Chris Low takes a Halloween-themed look at the SEC, including this line about Chris Todd:

• "Jack-o-lantern: Auburn quarterback Chris Todd could use a light going off in his head, and for that matter, so could the entire Auburn offense after a brutal last three weeks. The Tigers started the season as one of the most balanced offenses in the league. They’ve looked like one of the worst during their three-game losing streak."

• He's also got a long Did You Know? list about teams from the SEC.

• Certain Auburn players aren't allowed to talk to the media, writes colleague Evan Woodbery of the Mobile Press-Register. Unfortunately, that's a pretty normal thing at the college level, where coaches unilaterally decide who can talk and who can't.

• Jon Solomon of the Birmingham News writes that recruiting misses have hurt Auburn's depleted defense.

• Jerry Hinnen of the War Eagle Reader recaps the first and second halves of the LSU game.

• The War Eagle Reader also has a Q&A with an Ole Miss blogger who runs the site Red Cup Rebellion.

• Nick Saban says it's "disconcerting" that people are criticizing the play of an Alabama team that's won 20 of its last 22 games, writes Tommy Hicks of the Mobile Press-Register.

• Georgia has slipped from the top tier of SEC teams, writes Paul Newberry of the Associated Press.

• The Bulldogs' running game got a much-needed confidence boost in the second half of the Vanderbilt game, writes David Hale of the Macon Telegraph.

• Considering the economy, Jacksonville's had a surprisingly good turnout for the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, or whatever watered-down PC name they're calling it these days. This seems like an event you have to get to at some point in your life.

• Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News writes that Florida State coach Bobby Bowden didn't not say he would be interested in being the UAB coach.

• Terry Bowden is 9-0 at North Alabama, meaning he could be a hot commodity in coaching circles this offseason, writes Jeff McIntyre of the Times Daily.

• The NCAA misused its power in suspending Oklahoma State wide receiver Dez Bryant, writes Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman.

• Dave Kindred writes that gambling has no place in sports or in a newspaper. Pardon me, but this is just a dumb argument. The vast betting system set up in this country actually prevents shady dealings behind the scenes. If something's afoot in a game (say, too many bettors are waging on one side), Vegas knows it and exposes it. Take that away and it pushes it back into the shadows, where nobody knows what's going on. And that could lead to the competitive integrity of sports being challenged. And to say point spreads shouldn't be in a newspaper is just one more example of newspapers being out of touch with what their readers want. It's information. People want to know it. It should be in there. End of rant.