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Will the Ole Miss Rebels be able to become a playoff team this upcoming 2024-2025 college football season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let me ask you about a couple of teams. Now, obviously, you
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  know you'll, like everybody, all of us, you'll come out with your
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  predictions as we move into the spring and into the summer. But just to
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  fly over here, this will be and it already is the most anticipated offseason
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  for all miss football in this state since probably Eli Manning's senior year, and
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  maybe even bigger than that when you look at all of the publications and all
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  of the way too earlies has all missing the college football playoff. Coming off
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  an eleven win season Victor River Penn State and the Peach Bowl, Lane Kiffin
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  returns the majority of this roster. There is some churn there with obviously Quinn
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  Shawn Judkins head of Ohio State. But are you in the camp of yes,
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  this is this is a very good football team. Lane Kiffin hasn't probably
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  a college football playoff team, yeah, without question, without question, And
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  they probably were last year. Even if you subtract Gwin Shawn Goodkins from that
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  team. You know, I think we probably still would be a twelve team
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  playoff qualifier. But what they did through the portal Man, I mean,
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  Lane Kiffin just doing Lane Kiffin things, you know, going in there and
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  treating it like a target and finding what he wants and just kind of you
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  know, we'll get a defensive lineman here, we'll go get ourselves in the
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  juice wells bare and just continuing to build that thing into a battleship. And
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  I think Walter Nolan that we did our most impactful players in the SBC you
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  know race today on our show, and Walsh Nolan to me is just like
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  signifying what Lane Kippen talked about after that Georgia game, saying, Hey,
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  the difference with us right now between Georgia is they have double digit five stars
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  and He's like, I think we have one. And so I'm not saying
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  that, you know, Ole miss has the same level of five stars that
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  Georgia does, but bringing a guy like Wolfhon Nolan du for Uss was the
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  number two player in the whole Gosh Star and portal and being able to just
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  be able to place some more ball on the line of scrimmage and you know,
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  have a better showing against the team like Georgia with their offensive line and
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  play with with the you know, the Alabamas and the lsus of the world
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  here and and year out, Like if you can just play ball there.
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  I think that allows Lane Kip in offense to go to in my mind,
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  going from like the equalizer to the edge, like being what kept you in
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  the ball game. Maybe you'll play in a shootout to like, all right,
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  that shootout that was you know, forty two thirty eight is now twenty
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  to twenty eight because Almost is able to get some more stops. So I
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  mean, I want thousand percent believe this is a year, potentially the year
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  for Almost to really make some noise on a on a very very national level.
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  And I can't wait. I'd even talk about Jackson Dardan all right there,
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  but yeah, I'm really excited to watch that TV. I think there's
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  go'n be a lot of fun to watch this year.