Lane Kiffin makes case for Ole Miss to make New Year's Six bowl

With their win in the Egg Bowl, Ole Miss finished the regular season at 10-2. Now, with the SEC Championship and College Football Playoff off the table, Lane Kiffin wants to see his Rebels on New Year’s Day and has a quality reason as to why they should be there.

Kiffin made his pitch following Ole Miss’ season-finale in Starkville where they won 17-7 over Mississippi State. He didn’t make a long one, though, as he knows it’s going to hold little weight to the committee.

“I’m not going to go on a very long one. Because, one, I call all my coach buddies and it doesn’t work. They all do it and they start at, like, midseason,” Kiffin said. “They’re not going to listen to me and say, ‘Oh! That’s a good point that Coach Kiffin made – we’re going to move them up! Put them in the New Year’s Six!'”

However, Kiffin’s reasoning is focused on Ole Miss’ two losses. Winning double-digit games is quite the accomplishment that they posted in Oxford this season. Even so, it’s the fact their two losses came against their conference’s best and two of the nation’s, specifically on the road, why he believes their resume is as good as anyone else’s that’s under consideration.

“I think this one’s a pretty good argument where you went 10-2, super hard schedule,” explained Kiffin. “Even your non-conference? People, for the most part, played well. But your two losses are at Alabama and Georgia – the two going to the SEC (Championship), playing as well as anybody in the country, at their places.

“I’d like to see the other 10-2 people end up 10-2. I would doubt their losses are going to be harder ones than those two places to play. Georgia is about 30-0 in their last 30 games. And Alabama has lost two in their – whatever it has been – last 52 home games,” added Kiffin. “Analytics? That has got to be the two hardest place to win right now.”

There’s no shame in losing in Tuscaloosa and Athens to a pair of teams that are currently a combined 21-1 this fall. That’s why, with their regular season now over and done, Kiffin hopes that that fact is considered when it comes to their eventual bowl selection.

Ole Miss trolls Mississippi State on social media after Egg Bowl win

Even after the program fired him after less than a season as the head coach at Mississippi State, Zach Arnett is still taking flack — at least from the Bulldogs’ in-state rivals.

After a 17-7 Egg Bowl victory on Thanksgiving, the Ole Miss social media teams shared a troll video with plenty of the former head coach.

L + ratio + little brother https://t.co/MWICut8PAZ pic.twitter.com/EUv3EoyAA8

— Ole Miss Football (@OleMissFB) November 24, 2023

The video also takes a pass at Bulldogs QB Will Rogers and a few other targets. The main knife turn is using some comments from Arnett at SEC Media Days before the season.

“Simply put: Our fanbase has much to be proud of,” Arnett said in the video.