Lane Kiffin no stranger to long winning streaks like Georgia's

When Ole Miss takes on Georgia this weekend, the Rebels will take on one of college football’s most powerful dynasties. The Bulldogs have won 26 straight games.

It’s a run that rivals Alabama‘s 26-game streak from 2015-16 or USC‘s 34-game streak from 2003-05.

Current Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin was a part of the latter streak as an assistant coach.

“They were some of the longest streaks ever, so fortunate to be part of that,” Kiffin said. “There’s a lot of pressure that goes with that. You know, (Tim) Tebow was here last week and talked about his time at Florida and all this pressure on you, that’s tough and challenging and sometimes you can not have fun anymore.”

But if the pressure is mounting on Georgia, it sure doesn’t seem to be showing. The Bulldogs are winning in a remarkably consistent manner each week, taking the opponent’s best shot and then simply outlasting them into the fourth quarter.

Still, Kiffin reiterated the burden expectations can be.

“When some teams are great there’s always a little bit of a downside to it, too,” he said.

Ole Miss will be hoping to catch some of that downside this weekend in a game that is equally important to the Rebels as the Bulldogs. Ole Miss isn’t out of the College Football Playoff picture yet, sitting at 8-1 and ranked No. 9 in the CFP rankings.

The one thing Kiffin knows is that his squad will catch few breaks taking on Georgia.

Just the very nature and length of the current winning streak means it’s highly improbable the Bulldogs won’t be ready to roll. They always are.

“You can’t have streaks like that with just one of two things,” Kiffin said. “You can’t just have elite coaches and you can’t just have elite players. You can’t go through streaks like that and have days off and have bad weather games and things unless you have both. And Georgia has super elite coaches and super elite players. So did Alabama and so did USC, otherwise you can’t withstand the streak that long.”

Ole Miss and Georgia will kick off on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET, with a broadcast slated for ESPN.