With three games left in the regular season, Ole Miss is sitting in the driver’s seat for a spot to compete for a national championship. Lane Kiffin’s Rebels came in at No. 6 in the debut College Football Playoff poll of the 2025-26 campaign, with a chance to do what last year’s superteam could not.

If the playoff were to begin today, Ole Miss (8-1, 5-1 SEC) would host Virginia in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in the opening round. Action for the 12-team field is scheduled to kick off with one game on Friday, Dec. 19, while three other contests occur the next day. The top four teams will earn a first-round bye.

A peculiar season, in which Ole Miss lost its starting quarterback early on, did not cause the Rebels to flinch. When Austin Simmons, a talented southpaw who spent two years learning u

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