Ole Miss won the 2024 mentation of The Magnolia State’s formerly yearly Thanksgiving time tradition, the Egg Bowl, connected November 29 but the Rebels didn’t fortify their lawsuit to beryllium included successful the archetypal 12-team College Football Playoff aft a 26-14 triumph implicit Mississippi State. 247 Sports’ Brad Crawford sent a definitive connection connected the Rebs’ deficiency of a emergence successful the College Football Playoff rankings barring an all-time chaotic Rivalry Week.
“Will the enactment committee deliberation immoderate higher of 14th-ranked Ole Miss aft watching this game? The reply is no,” Crawford tweeted.
247 Sports’ Bud Elliot took it a measurement further, claiming the Bulldogs were a atrocious capable squad to beryllium capable to amusement thing against and inactive prime up a triumph over.
“Fully successful connected the mentation that SEC teams different than Arkansas didn’t effort to amusement thing against Miss State. Ole Miss is playing similar crap and inactive coasting to a dub,” Elliot tweeted.
Ole Miss fundamentally sealed their destiny successful the College Football Playoff contention by losing to Florida successful their past prove-it crippled of the 2024 season. An Egg Bowl would’ve lone looked bully if determination was a video crippled score. That the Rebels trailed successful the archetypal fractional robs the triumph of immoderate shine.
South Carolina moves up of Ole Miss successful College Football Playoff rankings with a triumph implicit Clemson
As Crawford points out, South Carolina present moves up of Ole Miss connected the College Football Playoff totem rod with a triumph implicit Clemson successful Week 14.
“South Carolina moves up of Ole Miss with a triumph tomorrow. Gamecocks are going to request 2 of the pursuing 5 teams to suffer to person a changeable astatine being wrong Tuesday night's apical 11: SMU (vs. Cal), Alabama (vs. Auburn), Tennessee (at Vanderbilt), Indiana (at Purdue), Miami (at Syracuse),” Crawford relayed.
South Carolina making the College Football Playoff implicit Ole Miss would’ve been a borderline unfathomable thought successful August. One insignificant upset separates the Gamecocks from that reality.