From the 1996 Citrus Bowl game between Tennessee and Ohio State, which the Vols won 20-14, made me think of the quip by Steve Spurrier:

……”You can't spell Citrus without U-T."..

He also got in a zinger about Peyton and the Citrus Bowl:

….."I know why Peyton came back for his senior year. He wanted to be a three-time star of the Citrus Bowl…..

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Here's Monday's thread, in case you missed it:


Rivals' Sam Spiegelman takes a look at Ole Miss' signing class from last week. The Rebels rank No. 14 on the Rivals national team rankings.

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Here's the thread from the weekend, in case you missed it:


First, as you likely saw yesterday, Luke Matheson has joined our staff to help with recruiting coverage. He's excellent and will be a major help. Luke covers Arkansas State, so he won't be solely focused on Ole Miss. I'll still be doing my best to lead the coverage, but this can't be a one-man job.

I'm out of pocket most of day and will be tied up with a couple of meetings and then driving. That said, I think today's just going to be a ridiculously silly cavalcade of players entering the portal. I doubt if there are any major decisions made today. Today is just the first official day of bidding, when the bids made in the tampering portal can become official. You know most of the names already from the transfer portal thread. Here are a few that I think you'll see Ole Miss involved in:

This is not an exclusive list, so there's no reason to do a bunch of what-about questions.

Charlotte OL PJ Wilkins

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North Carolina LB Amare Campbell


Syracuse CB Marcellus Barnes Jr.


Georgia Tech WR Eric Singleton Jr.


South Alabama RB Fluff Boutwell


Arkansas TE Luke Hasz


Arkansas OG Patrick Kutas


Lots more to come, obviously. Again, today is just going to be names. I expect you'll see visits begin middle of the week and into the weekend and continue until close to Christmas. My guess is Ole Miss will work some visits around some bowl practices. I don't know when those begin. Kiffin is supposed to do some sort of Taxslayer Bowl press conference tomorrow, I think.

With the obvious direction we are going with portal QB targets.

I think it’s hella hella interesting that this will be the first time at Ole Miss that Kiffin has a first year starter going into the season without a QB competition for the spot.

We can debate the realness of the Plumlee / Altmyer stuff but it was optically and spoken in pressers presented as true comps in the first seasons of Corral and Dart.

So do we really feel this was because of absolute faith in Simmons or more of ridiculous upcoming market thing ? (Easy simple answer is both, just looking for convo on it)






I’m excited about Simmons talent but i’m really skeptical on what we will see in 2025 from a production standpoint. Given experience and not making waves at OL to improve a lot via Portal.

My opinion is we need to see the 2020-2021 run heavy versions of Kiffin’s offense to help Simmons out a lot.

We put too much on Jaxson Dart with the lack of a run game. It cost us games and we absolutely can’t do that with a first year guy.

Punish Duke, losses by Miami, Clemson, Smu, Indiana, Tennessee or Osu. I don't see Alabama losing, wish the score last night had stayed 27-3.

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Crystal ball Eric singleton to the Rebs. This guy is the recruiting equivalent to Jim Cramer picking stocks. Just a total kiss of death

He signed with them on December 4th and now wants to sign with Florida.

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If we can pull this off… it’s a big boy message to CFB that the last dance was just for Jaxson Dart. This program’s window is wide, wide open.

Was this expected and who can MSU reasonably get with virtually no NIL funds?

Same crew that is calling Clemson/Texas (sans Laura Rutledge).