Ole Miss Fans, talk to me about your football team this year

Probably around 6-6

We have a few key groups that are up in the air.

Strengths:
QB (Ta’amu > Cry baby Shea)
WR (best in the SEC plus a great TE)
OL (verteran group anchored by a 1st rounder at LT)

Weakness:
DL (depth)
LB (experience and depth)

RB is a toss up but I think our offensive line will play well enough to make it functional. We won’t have a 1000 yard back but more of team approach mixing in QB runs.

At this point I don’t see anything other than luck to boost us over 7 wins or any reason to give us less than 6 wins. We will score a lot but will lose some games we should win. 5 wins would be disappointing. 6 would be about right. 7 or more would be a good season IMO.

As someone pointed out on the Ole Miss board, offense is built like the Sugar bowl team from Kelly’s junior year that lit up the score board every week.

Oline anchored by a consensus 1st round left tackle(Greg little instead of Tunsil) but the biggest difference is we have 4 of 5 returning starters overall so line should be really solid. Greg Little is higher rated than Tunsil.

WRs are led by 1st team all american candidate (AJ Brown instead of Laquon Treadwell) but I would take AJ over Laquon and I think we are deeper this year with DK and Lodge behind him. We have 3 WRs who could start at any school in America. Brown has already broken many Ole Miss WR records. Lodge who most consider to be our 3rd best WR actually was the best deep threat last year:


And DK is just a freak. 6 ft 4, 225 and runs a legit 4.4 dude could probably play rush DE




QB will be solid, i think Ta’amu will be a top 3 or 4 QB in the league with a good chance to be better if he improves from last year. He will be made better by how good his line and WRs are. I think Chad Kelly was one of the best QBs we’ve ever had so it’s hard to say Ta’amu will be as good as him, but ta’amu is faster.


RB, not really sure yet we have a bunch of new guys and a veteran coming back from injury so we will see.


As far as defense is concerned it’s hard to be worse than last year, so if we improve even a little I think we will be at least 6-6 with a chance to go 8-4 if LSU and Auburn suck. Basically watch our defense and RBs during the Texas Tech game. If either of them are a lot better than anticipated then we might sneak up and be decent.

If our linebackers improve, Ole Miss will be a very good team. If the linebackers don't improve, Ole Miss could be one of the worst teams in the conference. Last year they overran the play a lot or were out of place, and when they didn't, they weren't as physical as they needed to be. Ole Miss should be a complete SEC upper caliber team if the LB's improve. They have good players on the defensive line and the defensive backs are good. The offense should be more than adequate to compete with the better teams in the SEC. Of course, as with any team except maybe Georgia or Alabama, injuries could determine how well they play.