Dan Orlovsky identifies Ole Miss as the biggest threat to Georgia's SEC dominance in 2024

Of all the teams that could contend this season in the Southeastern Conference, Ole Miss is certainly one who could be there win it all this fall.

During a segment on ‘Get Up’ on Thursday, Matt Barrie asked Dan Orlovsky who the biggest threat to Georgia was in the SEC. His answer was a bet for this year on the Rebels out of The ‘Sip.

“I’m going to go and roll the dice on Lane Kiffin down in Oxford,” said Orlovsky.

Ole Miss has everything they’ll need on their roster to compete for titles this season, even against the ‘Dawgs. That starts with the portal pickups but also includes who they still have at quarterback and what they’ll start on defense.

“They’ve got transfers galore, which has kind of been their DNA recently. Jaxson Dart at quarterback has played a ton of football for them,” continued Orlovsky. “I think their defense, just because of the experience? They’re going to have one person on their defense starting that’s not a senior in college football.”

“They have a ton of talent matched with a boatload of experience,” Orlovsky said.

Hype has never been higher than with it is right now for Ole Miss. It’s now about living up to it as a team that plays for the conference title against some of the best come kickoff.

JD PicKell believes Ole Miss sits in perfect position to make College Football Playoff

On3’s JD PicKell is of the belief that Ole Miss is sitting in the perfect position to make their debut in the College Football Playoff.

During the latest episode of The Hard Count, PicKell explained why their hype is warranted.

“No. 5 – I got Ole Miss. It feels like for Ole Miss, Lane Kiffin, man? Preparation is meeting opportunity for them,” PicKell stated. “Like, talk about what they have on this roster already from an opportunity perspective. Jaxson Dart is back for a third year, okay. You got Tre Harris back for another season, one of the best receivers in the SEC a season ago. You got back your DC, you got back your OC. They’re still intact in Oxford.”

“Then, the opportunity of what they have from the portal, with Juice Wells adding into that offense, adding in a Walter Nolen, a Princely Umanmielen on defense. People keep talking about Ole Miss being different, you know, physically, and them looking different off the bus. And that’s all like, a nice thing to say. What does it actually look like, though? Like, from a numbers perspective for Ole Miss, for context, they’re two deep on the interior of the defensive line. Average is now 309 pounds. Translation? They will have run stoppers. Okay. Offensively, across the O-line, they average 330 pounds. We keep saying, ‘Hey, the SEC? It’s a line of scrimmage league’. Ole Miss – they keep upping the ante on the line of scrimmage.”

“Schedule’s pretty workable – no ‘Bama, no Texas, no Tennessee. Get Georgia at home,” said PicKell. “Ole Miss, man? Preparation meets opportunity. I think they’re a playoff team. I think they’ll be in the SEC Championship, and I think they’re going to be a force here in 2024 because of all the reasons I just mentioned. They’re built for a year like this. Lane Kiffin has gone all in via the portal yet again and Jaxson Dart is primed for a third huge year in the system.”