The Rebels, ranked No. 6 in the final division poll, downed Riverside County Educational Academy on the road while Rolling Hills upset fourth-seeded Cate on the road.
(AP) MISSISSIPPI 94, MORRIS BROWN 59: The 24th-ranked Rebels extended their nonconference home winning streak to 43 games, the third-longest streak in the nation.
Auburn 35, Mississippi 27 The Tigers, with Rudi Johnson running for 165 yards and 2 touchdowns, defeated the 19th-ranked Rebels in Oxford, Miss., giving Coach Tommy Tuberville a victory over his former team.
Saturday's game is the biggest in Ole Miss history since 1970, when Archie Manning and the 16th-ranked Rebels traveled to Baton Rouge to take on the eighth-ranked Tigers.
(Despite the climate, the city successfully hosts the USA Sevens rugby tournament; its university soccer team, the UNLV Rebels, are ranked in the top 25 in the country; and Vegas also acts as a regional hub for youth tournaments, due to its vast amount of accommodation).
His acceptance into the rebels' ranks underscores their assertion that they will welcome anyone who switches sides even now, so deep into the conflict.
Putin decried the growing Islamist cadres in the Syrian rebels' ranks: "Mercenaries from Arab countries fighting there, and hundreds of militants from Western countries and even Russia, are an issue of our deep concern.
Like the other boys in the rebels' ranks, he struts with a certain confidence, like a man double his age.
The specter of a violent tribal conflict within the rebel ranks touches on a central fear of the Western nations backing the Libyan insurrection: that the rebels' democratic goals could give way to a tribal civil war over Libya's oil resources.
The two sides are still quarrelling over the number and rank of rebels in the new army.
Mr Burt, who oversaw policy on Syria for three years, said moderates in the Syrian opposition had been "absolutely devastated" by the vote in August and that it had boosted extremists in the ranks of rebels fighting President Bashar Assad.
