The Ole Miss Rebels might have been the most fascinating team entering the 2025 College Football Playoff. Mostly due to the drama surrounding them. They became the poster child of the modern college sports landscape when head coach Lane Kiffin, following the best regular season in program history, bolted for a conference rival in LSU, leaving the program without a head coach before the start of the playoffs. What sort of impact would that have? Even with that question, Ole Miss still entered the first-round as heavy favorites against Tulane, a team that many in the college football community did not think belonged, and a team that Ole Miss already routed earlier this season. It was a game that Ole Miss was expected to win, head coach or no head coach. It won. Convincingly. Routing Tulane for the second time this season, 41-10, to advance to the quarterfinals of the CFP where it will play No. 3 Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. That is where Ole Miss will really be tested. Even without Kiffin on the sidelines, th
