Championship weekend

[NoWammies]

I don’t mind the opt outs since it’s pretty much an exhibition game. It will give Simmons some valuable reps plus if the ones that are staying do well it gives guys who are in the transfer portal eyeing Ole Miss a good look at what they’ll be getting next year if they decide to join. I do have a feeling Dart will play though just based off his relationship with Kiffin. 

[MSTSatchmo]

Right.  I definitely see Dart playing.  
 

It will be interesting to see if Colorado has any opt outs.  Sanders said his players wouldn’t do that.  He has two potential top 5 picks.  We will see 

[rebmus]

As a fan wanting to watch great games this postseason, I dislike opt outs. 

Still, Wammies is correct... it's really just an exhibition game unless it's a playoff game so I definitely understand the opt outs. 

 

I can certainly see Tre Harris opting out assuming he's healthy enough to play... he won't be 100% either way and probably can't help/hurt his draft status by playing. Why risk injury in a game when the only knock on him is injuries this season? He can always claim "too injured to play" and there's really no proof either way. 

 

I see Dart a late round pick. Dart playing probably doesn't help/hurt his draft status either unless he takes a big injury in the bowl game. Dart's wired different than most players though, I'll be surprised if he doesn't play in the bowl game. Dart lowered his shoulder and took many hits he shouldn't have just to try to get an extra yard or two... he absolutely loves to play the game while rallying his team behind him after showing how "tough" he is. 

Dart definitely isn't the "smartest" player when it comes to his own safety, but he's sure been fun to watch leaving it all on the field every day. 

 

[NoWammies]

I kind of took Tre’s declaring for the draft a subtle way of saying he was opting out of the bowl. I have a feeling Juice opts out so we’ll have to find someone else to contribute one handed drops. Defense will prob take a hit but I hope not. 

[Dawg83]

I’m in the camp of bowl games don’t matter a ton but I’ll be curious to see how enthusiastic OM is for a game against Duke. Duke also went 9-3 but didn’t beat anybody all that good. Most notable performance against a good team is they lost to SMU in overtime.

[NoWammies]

Still crazy that they somehow lost that game with SMU turning the ball over 6 times to Duke’s 0. 

[NoWammies]

Been getting a kick out of Bama fans on X and FB saying they’re just going to start scheduling easy opponents for now on since SOS doesn’t matter. 
 

First-I doubt fans have the ability to make the schedule out.

Second-What does scheduling an easy OOC schedule have to do with losing 3 conference games?
Third-Haven’t they already been doing that?

[Dawg83]

Did people just forget that Saban retired? I mean don’t get me wrong, Bama was a mostly good team this year, but this assumption that they’d CLEARLY beat SMU if they played is just false.

 

There’s a lot of SEC superiority complex going around this year that frankly wasn’t earned at the level it was earned in previous years. Again, if Bama wanted to make the Playoff, all you had to do was not lose to Vandy and then follow it up with a 24-3 loss to 6-6 Oklahoma. Similar situation for Ole Miss. The ball was totally in your court and you dribbled it off your foot.

[Insideradvantage]

22 minutes ago, Dawg83 said:

Did people just forget that Saban retired? I mean don’t get me wrong, Bama was a mostly good team this year, but this assumption that they’d CLEARLY beat SMU if they played is just false.

 

There’s a lot of SEC superiority complex going around this year that frankly wasn’t earned at the level it was earned in previous years. Again, if Bama wanted to make the Playoff, all you had to do was not lose to Vandy and then follow it up with a 24-3 loss to 6-6 Oklahoma. Similar situation for Ole Miss. The ball was totally in your court and you dribbled it off your foot.

Shoot, we dribbled it off both feet and then took a shot gun to both. 

[NoWammies]

Same goes for Ole Miss. I got Ole Miss friends who constantly say “are you stupid” when they say we’d clearly beat SMU, Boise St, ASU and Indiana and I follow it up with are you sure because we did lose to UK, LSU and Florida. When we’re good we’re good but we’re too inconsistent to say we’d clearly beat someone. 

[Dawg83]

2 minutes ago, NoWammies said:

Same goes for Ole Miss. I got Ole Miss friends who constantly say “are you stupid” when they say we’d clearly beat SMU, Boise St, ASU and Indiana and I follow it up with are you sure because we did lose to UK, LSU and Florida. When we’re good we’re good but we’re too inconsistent to say we’d clearly beat someone. 

Yeah seeing a lot of unwarranted confidence from some fanbases whose teams took some bad L’s this season. Everyone wants to be judged by their best day, but your worst day(s) have to matter too.

Edited December 9, 2024 by Dawg83

[Bulldogs4]

This year represents the most parity in college football, maybe ever. Oregon is #1 and undefeated but they appear beatable. 4-8 Whiskey lost to them 16-13. 
Everyone else in the top 25 has at least one-three losses. 
Consistency matters. Back in the summer, I said you can win three games a year on emotion. And then good teams usually have 3 bad games a year. And the key for Ole Miss was to gut out wins in those three games. They failed to do so. Same with Bama. USC was a bit different. Lost two heartbreakers to LSU/Bama and then was blown out by OM before getting hot the second half of the season. 
 

At least Bama was thrown a bone getting to play Michigan in the bowl game for some redemption after last year. 

[pancho]

I do wish the committee had properly rewarded the teams more based on ranking than simply winning a conference.  Maybe I am wrong but I do not thnk Indiana will beat ND, and nor do I think SMU will beat PSU and then I do not think Boise or Az State will win regardless of the opponent

[pancho]

2 minutes ago, Bulldogs4 said:

This year represents the most parity in college football, maybe ever. Oregon is #1 and undefeated but they appear beatable. 4-8 Whiskey lost to them 16-13. 
Everyone else in the top 25 has at least one-three losses. 
Consistency matters. Back in the summer, I said you can win three games a year on emotion. And then good teams usually have 3 bad games a year. And the key for Ole Miss was to gut out wins in those three games. They failed to do so. Same with Bama. USC was a bit different. Lost two heartbreakers to LSU/Bama and then was blown out by OM before getting hot the second half of the season. 
 

At least Bama was thrown a bone getting to play Michigan in the bowl game for some redemption after last year. 

Ole Miss could have dodged the issue by simply not playing all the cupcakes right before UK.  

[Bulldogs4]

3 hours ago, pancho said:

Ole Miss could have dodged the issue by simply not playing all the cupcakes right before UK.  

I agree that the four easy games leading into the KY game hurt Ole Miss. And at the time, everyone thought KY was a good team. Plus they were battle tested having played USCe and Georgia prior to Ole Miss. 
When it was scheduled WF was playing better football but you can never know how a team is going to evolve. Two-three years ago, AZ State appeared to be a total mismatch for State as they were woeful. And then look at this year. They were 1-11 two years ago and now are in the playoff. 

[Dawg83]

3 hours ago, pancho said:

I do wish the committee had properly rewarded the teams more based on ranking than simply winning a conference.  Maybe I am wrong but I do not thnk Indiana will beat ND, and nor do I think SMU will beat PSU and then I do not think Boise or Az State will win regardless of the opponent

I am fascinated by ASU. I agree that the other three aren’t gonna be in it for long.

[NoWammies]

Bunch of guys for Ole Miss today deciding NOT to opt out of the bowl game. 

[NoWammies]

Jared Ivey said today he’s playing in the bowl. This team broke my heart but I love the culture. 

[pancho]

all they gotta do is make them feel appreciated and it works out well.  they should embarrass the Duke team with it's JV QB

[rebmus]

On 12/9/2024 at 4:55 PM, NoWammies said:

Bunch of guys for Ole Miss today deciding NOT to opt out of the bowl game. 

There's rumors that the NIL deals were backloaded and included playing in the Bowl game to get fully paid. 

I have no idea if there's any truth to that, but pretty smart for any schools that put that in the NIL contracts. 

 

 

[NoWammies]

Micah Pettus is no longer with the team and won’t play in the bowl. First thing he hasn’t held onto all season. 

[rebmus]

15 minutes ago, NoWammies said:

Micah Pettus is no longer with the team and won’t play in the bowl. First thing he hasn’t held onto all season. 

Pettus planned to fly out at noon today, the plane was held up. 

[NoWammies]

10 minutes ago, rebmus said:

Pettus planned to fly out at noon today, the plane was held up. 

Lol pilot prob saw him and said hold on before I get a false start aren’t you Micah Pettus? 

[NoWammies]

Princely Umanmielen is playing in the bowl.

[Former Coach]

19 hours ago, rebmus said:

There's rumors that the NIL deals were backloaded and included playing in the Bowl game to get fully paid. 

I have no idea if there's any truth to that, but pretty smart for any schools that put that in the NIL contracts. 

 

 

That's the way it should be. I know Leach's last year, which seems like forever ago, State did that. That's why the didn't have any opt outs by there better players.