Can Lane Kiffin Lead Ole Miss to a 10-Win Season in 2025?

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00:00I mentioned Lane Kiffin.

00:01I really thought they were the team to potentially be that dark horse like Tennessee last year.

00:06I thought they had everything for the taking.

00:08And then the road performances by Jackson Dart were just not up to par.

00:14Now they get Austin Simmons.

00:15They come now with an eight-and-a-half win total.

00:18Lane Kiffin has done a fantastic job.

00:20But you lose Trey Harris.

00:21You lose Ulysses Bentley.

00:24They're starting running back.

00:25And Walter Nolan on the defensive side of the ball.

00:28Lane Kiffin built up the defense last year, one of the best rush defenses in all of college football,

00:33allowing only 80 rushing yards per game.

00:36Can Ole Miss potentially get to a 10-win season this year?

00:40Yeah, I think they can.

00:41I think Ole Miss, you know, they underachieved last year.

00:45I think of all the teams in college football, they underachieved.

00:48Look at them.

00:49They had a first-round draft pick at quarterback.

00:51They had incredible defense.

00:53I went to the Georgia Ole Miss game in Oxford.

00:56It was clear Ole Miss had the better athletes on the team.

01:01And when you've got better athletes in Georgia, you need to be playing for the national championship.

01:06Now the thing that Lane Kiffin does, he does a great job in the portal.

01:09Maybe one of the best coaches in the country for going through and recruiting the portal.

01:14He's loaded again.

01:15And he's got an exciting quarterback.

01:17And you've got kind of the monkey off his back.

01:20You don't have everybody talking about Ole Miss this year.

01:23I think this is a great year.

01:24If you had to pick a dark horse, not just in the SEC, but maybe to make a run during the college football playoffs,

01:30it might just need to be Ole Miss.