Vott Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 With the way college football is now, will ole miss (Indiana as well) be a national title contender every year or have they just caught lightning in a bottle and just need to enjoy it while they can Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maroontide06 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 I don't think the folks in Oxford are enjoying themselves right now. They got hit with another blow too. Chambliss got denied a 6th year of eligibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasbeen67 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 The way it is now I don't think we'll know from year to year. It'll probably be 6-7 teams every year that happen to get the portal right and are a surprise. OM could have very well been back next year, but it sounds like Chambliss may be out now. It remains to be seen, I think, whether Indiana is sustainable. As for the extra years of eligibility, I don't see why they allow it for one and not another. Chambliss could go as high in the draft this year as he ever will though. I don't know what the draft people are telling him, but it's hard to imagine him or the team having a better year next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Ole Miss was this years AZ State from last year and won't be in the playoff next year. If they leave it at 12 teams for next season I'll say from the SEC- Georgia. A&M, Texas, Bama and maybe Oklahoma or LSU will come close. Ohio State and Oregon will probably make it again as well. Notre Dame, Miami and Texas Tech will be favorites to make the field as well. Oh and I figure Austin Simmons would have stayed in Oxford if he thought Trinidad was a goner. Simmons is way better than a deuce knight or lagway type QB. Pete may have joe judge training a QB in game next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) Impossible to know yet due to the coaching change, If they were going into Year 7 of Kiffin after the six seasons of track record he had, I’d say absolutely it’s sustainable. We don’t really know what Golding is yet in the long run. OM certainly looked competent under him in the Playoff, but it wasn’t truly his own team with his own staff. New OC next year, new DC, with today’s news about Chambliss it’s looking like maybe a new QB too. It was kinda like an interim coach leading a team through a bowl game, except it was super high stakes bowl games and the interim kept the job when it was over. i think we’ll have to wait and see on this one. The one thing OM and Indiana had in common was Kiffin and Cignetti are elite head coaches. Well Lane took his yoga mat to Red Stick and now the Golding era truly begins in earnest where it’s all on him to sustain and build the roster how he wants it to look. Anyone can have their best guesses in either direction, but the sample size on Golding is far to small too know anything for sure at this early stage. Edited January 9 by Dawg83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Kiffin has pissed in Leavitts cheerios. He seems to be leaning to miami or the Vols. Kiffin has no QB, very similar to Golding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSTSatchmo Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 (edited) 8 hours ago, Vott said: With the way college football is now, will ole miss (Indiana as well) be a national title contender every year or have they just caught lightning in a bottle and just need to enjoy it while they can I think Indiana’s coach has proven himself and he can do it without star players. I don’t know about Golding. OM will miss Kiffin and his offense and his game planning. Plus they have a much tougher schedule next year. They benefited the last two from a favorable schedule. OM won’t go 2-10 though because they will get players with their collective. All the praise for Golding is premature. Not saying he won’t be a good coach, he’s been hyped too much and Kiffin devalued too much in my opinion. Same with Texas Tech. Not sure about the coaching, but they’re going to spend some money. Edited January 10 by MSTSatchmo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Cignetti is an excellent coach but I can see Indiana dropping back next year. Ole Miss will take a step back. Both will still be good. But given the new normal I can see football becoming more wide open in the years ahead. Few teams will be able to sustain any kind of dominance. If the playoff goes to 16, more teams will have an opportunity to be this year’s Indiana. There will be more flash in the pans and less sustained runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 I’m all in on Cignetti and it kills me that State could’ve had him two years ago and I’m not sure they really kicked the tires. Indiana is here to stay for the foreseeable future. They’re not going to go undefeated every year but they’ll be in the playoff mix at worst as long as Cignetti is operating at full strength. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Michigan will suffer more as a result now in the Big 10. Indiana, oregon and ohio state will run the place annually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 1 hour ago, pancho said: Michigan will suffer more as a result now in the Big 10. Indiana, oregon and ohio state will run the place annually I think Michigan under Whittingham will be less than what they were under Harbaugh but more than what they were under Moore. Penn State is another that I think could take a step back. I like Matt Campbell but I feel like his best case scenario is matching what Franklin did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasbeen67 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 The era of SEC dominance appears to be over. I think that's permanent and a consequence of the changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrownInEtown Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 (edited) 42 minutes ago, hasbeen67 said: The era of SEC dominance appears to be over. I think that's permanent and a consequence of the changes. Those are fighting words haha. Top to bottom, the SEC remains the toughest conference. From a week to week basis, the SEC is the toughest just simply based off talent and sheer allocation of resources towards football. We will also continue to put more players in the NFL. We just haven’t had 1 particular team that dominates like Georgia or Alabama as of late. Idc abt the bowl records or whatever other narratives the anti-SEC obsessed Redditors continue to share. We will remain the top conference until the B1G can beat us in a plethora of things, not just recent championships Edited January 10 by DrownInEtown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 31 minutes ago, DrownInEtown said: Those are fighting words haha. Top to bottom, the SEC remains the toughest conference. From a week to week basis, the SEC is the toughest just simply based off talent and sheer allocation of resources towards football. We will also continue to put more players in the NFL. We just haven’t had 1 particular team that dominates like Georgia or Alabama as of late. Idc abt the bowl records or whatever other narratives the anti-SEC obsessed Redditors continue to share. We will remain the top conference until the B1G can beat us in a plethora of things, not just recent championships I think the portal has changed things and it’s just not the same world it was 4-5 years ago. I’m not sure what more the Big 10 can do to prove they’ve overtaken the SEC for the time being. Probably about to have the third straight Big 10 national champ in a row with three different teams. And the SEC hasn’t made it to the finals in any of those years. Indiana would be one of the least talented teams in the SEC on paper and I’m not sure there’s an SEC team that would play them within single digits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebmus Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 Contender as in typically in the playoff discussion or contender as typically a top 5 finish? In this new era, I don't see teams dominating top 5 year after year... sometimes the tons of new players from the transfer won't gel well together. Will Indiana average a top 15 finish over the next 6 years (assuming Cig stays... I think he will)? I think so. Will Indiana average a top 5 finish over the next 6 years? I lean nope. On Ole Miss, I like what I saw from Pete in the playoffs... but that sure is a very small sample size (although, on a very huge stage). Next year will tell us more of what to expect with Pete as HC along with a new OC. IF Pete finishes top 3 again next year, almost everyone will forget the hatred of Lane and soak in the love of Pete. That's a VERY HUGE IF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 What's the deal with clemson and now fresno dealing with Pete? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebmus Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 1/30/2026 at 7:06 AM, pancho said: What's the deal with clemson and now fresno dealing with Pete? Who knows... seems like pretty much everyone is breaking tampering rules now. Will the NCAA punish Ole Miss? Maybe? Seems like the course with the NCAA is to hire Tom Mars and get a case at a local courthouse... worked for Bama to get a pro basketball player somehow playing at the college level again. Obviously that's different from an NCAA penalty, but still... does the NCAA have any real bite left? Having the early signing period and transfer portal opening while games are still being played is a huge issue the NCAA has failed to address. I have a strong feeling the SEC and Big 10 are close to breaking away from it and starting their own thing anyway and setting things up more like the NFL model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 I think its hilarious how Lane tampering is bad but now its total silence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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