re: Honest Question--Has Ole Miss football program Surpass LSU?

If this not a flame, you really need to learn to be more serious... ??

But has more wins than OM so that must means OM sucks even more.

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How's that? Winning 9 regular season games?

Beating Bama doesn't make you a a national power.

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No one, including me, mentioned "national power". Outside of random good seasons, we've never been able to have any consistency, or shown a true upward program projection in my lifetime as a fan. The back to back Cotton Bowls were followed up by piss poor seasons and horrible recruiting. We've improved every year under Freeze and made back to back NY6 bowls. He has proven that he can recruit (nb4 death penalty) well consistently and light years ahead of what we've done historically. Ole Miss is becoming nationally relevant due to our recent success, and proven with our recruiting footprint. Historically we were battling for Mississippi recruits, and the Bama/LSU scraps. Kids as close by as Texas had no idea who we were, and certainly weren't going to choose us over other successful programs they had offers from. Fast forward to this year, and we pulled the #1 LT and #1 Safety from heavily recruited Texas areas. With a big thanks to ESPN, the SEC Network, and our recent successes, we are now known across the country. Not as a "national power", but as a legitimate program. Hell, just as A program. Just a few years ago if you were to wear an Ole Miss hat anywhere outside of the SEC, 90% of people not only had no idea where it was, but didn't even know it was a school. That has changed, and we're now in the hunt for profile players like Mique Juarez from 2000 miles across the country, who previously had no ties to the university. We weren't even going to have to adopt him. That is mind blowing to even think about for long time Rebel fans. To say we're not relevant, not now known at a national level, haven't proven to be more than a flash in the pan, and not a long term threat in the West is nothing more than your elitist Bama ignorance. Having beat Bama twice didn't hurt our return to relevancy as a football program, but it's not the reason our fans and the media view Ole Miss as a rising program who is positioning themselves to be a yearly contender.