Kermit Davis shares what win over Georgia does for confidence

Ole Miss entered Tuesday’s game against Georgia with just one SEC win to its name. That’s why the Rebels’ victory could be a confidence booster as the final stretch of the schedule gets underway.

Kermit Davis said the goal was to flip the script in February after a 1-9 start to the conference slate. The Rebels got one win in July over South Carolina, and it only took them a week to match that total with the win over Georgia.

Now, they have to sustain it.

“We talked about winning February,” Davis said. “That’s about the seventh SEC game like this that we could sit back and look and have four or five more wins, but we don’t. Any of these wins are great. Now, we’re 1-1 in February. We go back home to [face] South Carolina on Saturday. You’re just trying, for the first time, to win back-to-back games and get some momentum and get to feeling good. Just a happy locker room right there for a must-needed win on the road.”

With the victory, Ole Miss halted a five-game losing streak. That streak started after the Rebels halted a six-game skid, and Davis was asked what it means to put it to an end.

The streak was the last thing on his mind — and he wanted it to stay that way.

“I don’t even know what the streak is. .. I’m telling you, I promise you, I don’t know anything outside of my house and our locker room and our guys and our staff,” Davis said. “I don’t read one thing, I don’t know anything. I just know who our next opponent is, I want to do right by these guys and coach them hard every single day. That’s just what we’re going to do. Please don’t even remind me what it is because I don’t know it. Whatever streak it is, I’m sure glad we broke it.”

Ole Miss will try to start a different kind of streak — a winning one — when it squares off in a rematch against South Carolina Saturday at 1 p.m. ET on the SEC Network.