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Ken Cooper, an assistant under Kinard since , was named head coach on January 17, , and took Ole Miss through the season. Cooper compiled a 21—23 record, and his tenure is probably best remembered for the matchup with Notre Dame in September That loss was Notre Dame’s lone setback of the campaign, as they finished the season with an 11—1 record and claimed both the AP and UPI national titles.
Cooper is now the assistant head coach and offensive line coach at Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Georgia. Following the season, Steve Sloan , the former All-American quarterback at Alabama under Paul “Bear” Bryant , was hired as the new Rebel head coach and began his five-year stint in Sloan posted a 20—34 record from to After stepping outside the Ole Miss family football tree the previous nine seasons, Ole Miss looked for a familiar face to lead the football program, and the Rebels found that person when Billy Brewer returned to Oxford to take over as head coach in December In his first season in , Brewer guided the Rebels to their first winning regular season since with a 7—4 record Tulane win a result of forfeit.
The Rebels also went to their first bowl game since losing to Air Force 9—3 in the Independence Bowl. Brewer remained in Oxford for another ten seasons, leading the Rebels to five winning seasons and four bowls, including Ole Miss’ New Year’s Day Gator Bowl appearance, which was the program’s first January bowl game since He was named SEC Coach of the Year in 8—3—1 record and 9—3 record , and in , the Rebels return to the national rankings for the first time in over a decade.
Brewer coached 11 years —93 and compiled a 68—55—3 record, making him at the time the second winningest Ole Miss football coach behind Vaught. Brewer was dismissed just prior to the season after the NCAA infractions committee found him guilty of “unethical conduct,” and Ole Miss defensive coordinator Joe Lee Dunn took over as interim coach, directing the Rebels to a 4—7 record under difficult circumstances highlighted only by a 34—21 victory over rival LSU.
On December 2, , Tommy Tuberville was selected as the coach in charge of getting the Rebels on the right track. That excitement grew in , when Ole Miss recorded its best season since with an 8—4 record, a thrilling 15—14 Egg Bowl victory over Mississippi State and a Motor City Bowl win over Marshall University.
The bowl appearance was the program’s first since , and the Rebels earned a final national ranking of No.
The revitalized Ole Miss program continued in its success in , but suffered a setback after the Egg Bowl when Tuberville, despite repeated assurances that he would not leave and even going so far as to say, “They’ll have to take me out of here in a pine box” [8] [9] [10] agreed 2 days later to become the head coach at SEC West rival Auburn University. David Cutcliffe took over as head coach on December 2, Cutcliffe, who came to Ole Miss from his offensive coordinator post at Tennessee, took over the reins just 29 days before the Rebels’ Sanford Independence Bowl date versus Texas Tech.
Despite the short preparation time for the game, Cutcliffe led the Rebels to a 35—18 victory over the Red Raiders, quite arguably the biggest upset of the bowl season. Cutcliffe brought with him to Oxford a high-powered offensive style that energized the Rebel fanbase. In the time from to , the Rebels played in six bowl games, tied with Arkansas for the most bowl appearances among SEC Western Division schools during that span. Cutcliffe had four winning seasons in his first five seasons at Ole Miss, in 8—4 , 7—5 , 7—4 and 7—6 , becoming the first Rebel mentor since Harry Mehre —41 to post winning marks in his first five years.
Cutcliffe also directed Ole Miss to four bowl appearances in his first five seasons. Despite his 44—29 record, five straight winning seasons, and guiding the team to its first 10 win season in over 30 years, Cutcliffe was fired by Ole Miss’s Athletic Director Pete Boone in December after the team posted a disappointing 4—7 record and three consecutive losses to LSU. Ed Orgeron , regarded as one of college football’s premier defensive line coaches and recruiters, was named the 35th head football coach in the history of the University of Mississippi on December 16, He also served as USC’s recruiting coordinator from to and was named assistant head coach in Orgeron’s talent as a recruiter created a buzz among Rebel fans and drew national attention when Ole Miss’ signing class ranked as high as 15th in the rankings.
His recruiting class was also listed among the best in college football No. However, his recruiting success did not translate to on the field performance. In , Ole Miss was last in the SEC in scoring offense, turnover margin, rushing offense, rushing defense, punt returns, opponent first downs, red-zone offense, opponent third-down conversions, field goal percentage, time of possession and kickoff coverage.
The season was an unmitigated disaster for the Rebels. Orgeron was fired on November 24, Three days later, Houston Nutt was hired as the next head football coach. On November 27, , Houston Nutt was hired as the 36th head football coach of the Ole Miss Rebels, just five weeks after having defeated Ole Miss as the head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks.
The Rebels posted their th win on September 27, , when they defeated the Florida Gators 31— Nutt’s tenure at Ole Miss crested with the season, and the Rebels would only win a total of six games in the next two years. In , they went winless in SEC play. On November 7, ; due to what ESPN called the “total decline” of the program over the past two years, athletic director Pete Boone forced Nutt to resign at the end of the season. NCAA investigators later concluded that Nutt had allowed student athletes to play while ineligible.
Due to these violations, as well as others committed by his successor, Hugh Freeze , in the NCAA punished Ole Miss by stripping the team of 33 wins over six seasons. Freeze was previously the head coach at Arkansas State and had previously been the tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator from to In his first year he went 7—6 and finished the regular season with a win over rival Mississippi State. In Freeze’s second year, the Rebels went 8—5 3—5. In , Freeze led Ole Miss to one of its strongest seasons in four decades.
The Rebels spent most of the season in the top 10, rising as high as third in October—their highest ranking at that late stage in the season in almost half a century. They ultimately finished 9—3, only the third time since Vaught’s tenure that a Rebel team has won as many as nine games. This garnered them a berth in the Peach Bowl —their first major-bowl appearance since Freeze led to the Rebels to another strong season in , perhaps the program’s strongest since the undefeated and untied season of Ole Miss controlled their own destiny in the SEC West for much of the campaign, but ultimately finished in second place.
The Rebels earned a trip to the Sugar Bowl , their first appearance in this bowl game since , where they beat Oklahoma State 48— Freeze led the Rebels to their first win season since , and only the third since the Vaught era.
On July 20, , Freeze resigned after Ole Miss officials learned that he had used a university-provided cell phone to place calls to an escort service in “a concerning pattern” that began shortly after he took the job in NCAA investigators later concluded that Freeze had cheated on 15 occasions by breaking recruiting rules and allowing students to play who had not maintained the required academic standing; they also determined that his predecessor, Nutt, had broken similar rules.
This constituted one of the worst violations ever, and in the NCAA punished Ole Miss by stripping the team of 33 wins over six seasons, including seven from , eight from , and five from This changed Freeze’s official record at Ole Miss from 39—25 over five seasons to 12— The NCAA also banned the team from postseason play for two years, stripped it of scholarships for four years, and placed it on three years of probation.
Co-offensive coordinator Matt Luke was named interim head coach the same day. In November , Luke was named the permanent head coach after leading the Rebels to a record, including a Egg Bowl win over Mississippi State. In the Egg Bowl, Luke’s recruit Elijah Moore performed a post-touchdown mockery of a urinating dog, costing the Rebels a penalty and ultimately losing the game by a missed extra point In , his second season at the helm, Kiffin piloted the Rebels to a regular season record, the best regular season record in school history, going in conference and finishing 11th in both major polls after a loss to Baylor in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana left the Rebels with a final record of , only the eighth time in school history that the football team has recorded ten wins in a season.
Ole Miss has been affiliated with the following conferences. Ole Miss has been selected national champion three times by NCAA-designated major selectors in , and Ole Miss has never finished a season ranked No. Ole Miss has had 38 head coaches in over a century of play. Ole Miss has participated in 39 bowl games and compiled a record of 24—14 through the season.
Ole Miss primarily uses four jersey options along with two pant styles and two helmet variations. They often mix and match these jerseys, helmets, and pants to create a wide range of uniform combinations. Since the season, Ole Miss has taken the field in at least ten different uniform combinations.
The Rebels have traditionally used red jerseys for their primary home uniforms and blue jerseys as alternates; both have bold white numbers and white vertical shoulder stripes. The Rebels have also made extensive use of their new “powder blues,” a uniform combination consisting of solid white pants, a powder blue jersey with white shoulder stripes, and the powder blue helmet. This uniform combination started as an alternate uniform, but has become very popular among fans and players; since the season it has been worn as the primary home uniform.
White jerseys with red numbers and stripes are typically used on the road. These jerseys are paired with either gray pants with red and blue stripes or solid white pants, though for the season were paired with white pants with red stripes as part of a “white out” uniform combination.
A similar white road uniform with navy stripes and letters has also been used. Typically, Ole Miss uses one of two helmet designs. Since its reintroduction in the season, the Rebels have worn powder blue helmets in over half their games, typically with their red or white jerseys, and have arguably become the teams primary helmet.
In , Ole Miss used special helmets for a military-appreciation game against Louisiana and a rivalry game against LSU. The military appreciation helmets, which have been worn multiple times since then in both navy and powder blue variations, were the same as the primary design, except the logo on each side of the helmet was filled with an American flag design.
The teams have played each other times since , and the first game officially known as “The Battle of the Golden Egg” was in While it is called a “Bowl”, the game is not a postseason bowl game but a regular season SEC game. Twenty-nine Egg Bowls have been played on Thanksgiving Day. In , the game gained much more national attention due to the postseason implications the game possessed. Mississippi State entered the game with a No.
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Darren Agu D. Steven Sannieniola S. Dayton Wade D. I don’t know. It wasn’t a major thing. They had a touchdown run on a fourth down that we ran the wrong gap scheme.
We didn’t tackle very well. We still didn’t tackle very well in the second half. Really poor tackling by the secondary, which in our system is very important as you know because the ball goes to those guys a lot. Where do you think this team is right now, sitting at halfway through the season? I’m thinking we should’ve played a lot better. I’m certainly not thinking about a national championship. You and I watched that first half. We can’t be worried about that. We’ve got a long ways to go to improve and play a matchup against Auburn that we haven’t won yet.
We’re going to need our fans to repeat their performance from last week, show up and give us a home field advantage.
They pass protected well. We had a lot of run stunts as you saw and were really getting stuffed early. I wouldn’t have guessed the stats ended up being 7. Good resolve. We obviously changed some things up with some perimeter runs because of all the interior stunts.
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