Golding: An Appeal Nobody Ruled On Cost Ole Miss 2 Starters

Locked On Ole Miss Hit - Quick Takes on Ole Miss Rebels Football & Basketball · Oct 13, 2026 · 4m

Pete Golding explained it himself at Monday's Missouri preview press conference. On Austin Simmons: "You play quarterback, we play one of them. There's an appeal process going on." He couldn't take that risk.

On Cayden Lee, Golding said he wasn't comfortable not knowing whether the appeal would go through, didn't want to risk the season on it, and wasn't willing to go through spring to find out.

Golding said he understood it, that the meetings were professional, and that both of them know he loves them. He called them players who started at Ole Miss on a playoff football team.

The…