Ole Miss lands inside Top 10 in first College Football Playoff rankings of the season
The calendar flips to November on Wednesday and with it the final four weeks of the 2023 college football regular season. Ole Miss has once again set itself up to have a November to remember.
Four straight Southeastern Conference wins has Ole Miss looking like a contender this season after becoming a pretender during last season’s final stretch. Games against Texas A&M and No. 2 Georgia over the next 11 days will help make that a little clearer.
Still, the Rebels have set themselves up for another historic season just two years removed from its first 10-win regular season in program history.
The College Football Playoff still feels like a pipe dream after Ole Miss dropped its lone loss at Alabama in September, putting its SEC Championship and CFP chances behind the eight ball early.
Tuesday’s first CFP Top 25 rankings of the season shed a little more light on where the Rebels stand and what the path looks like (spoiler: winning out in November is the only real path).
The CFP committee ranked Ole Miss No. 10, putting them inside the Top 10 of the CFP rankings for the first time since since December 8, 2021 when it was No. 8 in the final week of rankings. The Rebels were as high as No. 11 last season before the November swoon.
Ole Miss is benefiting from having two wins against CFP Top 25 teams in No. 14 LSU and No. 24 Tulane. There is not another major resume win left on the schedule beyond the Bulldogs next Saturday, but piling up another SEC win this weekend will do nothing but strengthen the Rebels resume.
Below is the complete College Football Playoff Top 25 rankings
- Ohio State (8-0)
- Georgia (8-0)
- Michigan (8-0)
- Florida State (8-0)
- Washington (8-0)
- Oregon (7-1)
- Texas (7-1)
- Alabama (7-1)
- Oklahoma (7-1)
- Ole Miss (7-1)
- Penn State (7-1)
- Missouri (7-1)
- Louisville (7-2)
- LSU (6-2)
- Notre Dame (7-2)
- Oregon State (6-2)
- Tennessee (6-2)
- Utah (6-2)
- UCLA (6-2)
- Southern California (7-2)
- Kansas (6-2)
- Oklahoma State (6-2)
- Kansas State (6-2)
- Tulane (7-1)
- Air Force (8-0)
