.... was the 2014 season.
I was looking up past records to determine when the last time the Rebels started the season 6-1. It was the 2014 season with Bo Wallace as QB. I was looking at the schedule and reminiscing about that season, and can't help but shake my head at how that season transpired. We had a golden opportunity to make a playoff that year.
First, we started the season off 7-0 with a historic win at home against Alabama. Then we went to Baton Rouge to play the Tigers. Game day was on their campus that day, and it was the largest crowd on record because they had just completed their stadium expansion. The place was as loud as I could ever remember, and the Rebels just played terrible that game. We had a TD called back because of a questionable holding call, and Bo Wallace totally lost his composure and was found even yelling at Tiger fans in the stands.
The very next week, Ole Miss hosted Auburn in Oxford, and with the score 35-31 Laquon Treadwell catches a bubble screen pass and fumbles the ball on the one yard line as a result of the Auburn linebacker breaking his ankle and a tackle from behind as he was about to score the game winning TD. We bounced back to beat Presbyterian, and then lose at Fayettville in the rain with Bo playing most of the game with a severely sprained ankle.
Just looking back on that season, I can't help but thing how we just missed out on a possible playoff birth if not for just a couple of bad breaks (no pun intended).
The truth of the matter is that remembering that season, it makes me despise Hugh Freeze all the more. If Hugh would have simply stuck to focusing his life and attention on being the best football coach he could be, then he could have truly built something at Ole Miss. Instead he totally threw in the towel on building his football dynasty and instead enjoyed life as a celebrity. Instead of late nights of breaking down film, he was securing backstage passes to country music concerts, and rubbing elbows with NASCAR drivers.
I was looking up past records to determine when the last time the Rebels started the season 6-1. It was the 2014 season with Bo Wallace as QB. I was looking at the schedule and reminiscing about that season, and can't help but shake my head at how that season transpired. We had a golden opportunity to make a playoff that year.
First, we started the season off 7-0 with a historic win at home against Alabama. Then we went to Baton Rouge to play the Tigers. Game day was on their campus that day, and it was the largest crowd on record because they had just completed their stadium expansion. The place was as loud as I could ever remember, and the Rebels just played terrible that game. We had a TD called back because of a questionable holding call, and Bo Wallace totally lost his composure and was found even yelling at Tiger fans in the stands.
The very next week, Ole Miss hosted Auburn in Oxford, and with the score 35-31 Laquon Treadwell catches a bubble screen pass and fumbles the ball on the one yard line as a result of the Auburn linebacker breaking his ankle and a tackle from behind as he was about to score the game winning TD. We bounced back to beat Presbyterian, and then lose at Fayettville in the rain with Bo playing most of the game with a severely sprained ankle.
Just looking back on that season, I can't help but thing how we just missed out on a possible playoff birth if not for just a couple of bad breaks (no pun intended).
The truth of the matter is that remembering that season, it makes me despise Hugh Freeze all the more. If Hugh would have simply stuck to focusing his life and attention on being the best football coach he could be, then he could have truly built something at Ole Miss. Instead he totally threw in the towel on building his football dynasty and instead enjoyed life as a celebrity. Instead of late nights of breaking down film, he was securing backstage passes to country music concerts, and rubbing elbows with NASCAR drivers.
