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Ole Miss falls short 31-27 in the closing seconds to Miami, ending the 2025 season in the Fiesta Bowl
One win away from playing a National Championship, the Ole Miss Rebels would face off with the Hurricanes of Miami in the VRBO Fiesta Bowl. Needing just a win, all the effort comes down to the sixty-minute game with the Hurricanes on Thursday night. A win, and Coach Pete Golding and the Rebels would be…
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Mississippi State improves to 2-0 in SEC play with a 72-53 victory over Oklahoma
Fresh off a massive road win at Texas on Saturday night, Coach Jans and the Mississippi State would welcome the Sooners of Oklahoma to the Hump on Wednesday night for another early Southeastern Conference test. Not only did Mississippi State beat Texas on Wednesday night they extended the winning streak to five games and with…
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Fiesta Bowl: Ole Miss looks to secure a trip to the National Championship as they take on Miami on Thursday night
It all comes down to this. One more game for the Ole Miss Rebels to win to advance to play for a National Championship for the first time since the 1962 season. Thursday night will be the fourth meeting between the Hurricanes and the Rebels, with the Hurricanes holding a 2-1 series advantage. The last…
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The current state of Memphis basketball
We’re nearly halfway through the Memphis basketball season, and despite being on a three-game winning streak, the current trajectory of the program seems off. Attendance is down, the product on the court isn’t what Memphis fans expect, and the lack of success doesn’t feel like Memphis basketball anymore; it feels like a program with hope…
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Thoughts and takeaways from the Sugar Bowl as the College Football Playoff journey continues for Ole Miss
Once again, the Coach Pete Golding and the Ole Miss Rebels did something nobody outside of the locker room thought they’d do: they took down the mighty Georgia Bulldogs while managing an instant classic with a comeback for the ages, and now the Rebels have advanced and will play Miami on Thursday night in the…
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Navy picks up the 11th win by taking down Cincinnati 35-13 to win the 67th AutoZone Liberty Bowl
On a wet day for football at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium, Navy and Cincinnati would meet for the final game of the 2025 season in the 67th AutoZone Liberty Bowl. Navy, out of the American Conference, came into the bowl game with a 10-2 record, as the Bearcats came into the game with a 7-5…
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Ole Miss takes down Georgia 39-34 to win the Sugar Bowl, advancing to play Miami in the VRBO Fiesta Bowl
In front of a sea of powder blue in the Sugar Bowl, it was the Ole Miss Rebels taking on the Georgia Bulldogs with the final spot in the College Football Playoff Semifinals on the line. A win and you head to Arizona to take on Miami in the VRBO Fiesta Bowl, a loss and…
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Memphis opens American Conference play with an ugly 57-48 win over North Texas
Despite a dismal nonconference slate for Coach Penny Hardaway and the Memphis Tigers, Wednesday afternoon was the start of a new season as the Tigers welcomed North Texas to the FedEx Forum to jumpstart the new season on a solid note. Coming into the conference slate for Memphis, the margin of error for Memphis is…
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Battle tested and ready for the Sugar Bowl fight with Georgia on Thursday night
We’re a little over 24 hours away from the Allstate Sugar Bowl matchup between the Ole Miss Rebels and the Georgia Bulldogs in the lovely city of New Orleans. By the time nighttime falls on the Big Easy on Thursday, it’ll be Pete Golding and the Ole Miss Rebels ready to take centerstage as they…
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Taking a look at how the AutoZone Liberty Bowl and Navy Football are exactly what college football needs this postseason
In an era where college football no longer feels traditional, the service academies capture the spirit of old-school fans across the nation. There’s no NIL, no transfer portal, and no postseason opt-outs. The historic AutoZone Liberty Bowl offers a genuine spectacle on Friday. The Midshipmen of the Navy will take to Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium…
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It’s finally game week for Mississippi State as they prepare to head to Charlotte to take on Wake Forest in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl
After a long hiatus since the Egg Bowl, Mississippi State football is back in action as it looks to end the 2025 season with a matchup against the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl next Friday. Despite not winning the sixth game, Mississippi State has an opportunity to have an extra…
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Thoughts and takeaways from Saturday’s night First Round College Football Playoff game against Tulane
Saturday was a day of celebration for Ole Miss football as they not only won the school’s first playoff game, but also finally took a seat at the grown-up table of college football by hosting a first-round College Football Playoff game. There was something in the air inside Vaught Hemingway Stadium on Saturday as the…
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Ole Miss dominates Tulane 41-10 in the first round of the College Football Playoff
On a day of celebration for the arrival of Ole Miss football to the big stage of the College Football Playoff, Ole Miss would welcome the Green Wave of Tulane to Vaught Hemingway Stadium for the first round of the College Football Playoff. In what many consider the biggest sporting event to ever take place…
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Embrace the moment
Ole Miss fans, the time you’ve all been waiting a lifetime for is just about upon us as Wednesday rears the beauty of what’s to come this weekend for the community of Oxford, and the national spotlight on the entire state of Mississippi. As it stands, the expectations are that the College Football Playoff weekend…
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Memphis looks to finish the 2025 season strong with a win over North Carolina State in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl on Friday
In what has turned into an annual occurrence, the Memphis Tigers have opened a new week of postseason football in the heart of December. Memphis football has made a habit of playing and winning bowl games for the 12 years the Memphis Tigers have played into December, with meaningful football on the line, and this…
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It’s finally game week for the Ole Miss Rebels as they turn the page to the CFP opener with Tulane next Saturday
We’re officially a little over a week out from game day in the Sip, and as the calendar turns to Friday, it’s game week for Coach Pete Golding and the Ole Miss Rebels as they shift the focus to the matchup at hand with a College Football Playoff opening first-round game against Tulane next Saturday…
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“ Spot the ball, we’ll play.” Thoughts and takeaways from the introduction of Coach Huff as the Head Coach at Memphis
It’s a new day within the Memphis Tigers football program as Athletics Director Dr. Ed Scott has formally announced to the city of Memphis its new Head Football Coach Charles Huff, who brings to the 901 a winning pedigree backed by the support of Coach Nick Saban, James Franklin, and others. Coach Huff took to…
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Taking a look at why accepting a bid to play in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl was the right move for Mississippi State as they build for the 2026 season
Despite not finishing with the traditional six wins needed to reach a bowl game, Mississippi State is heading back to the postseason for the first time in nearly three years and the first under Coach Lebby, as they are heading to the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, where they will face the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest…
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Selfless leadership, the cornerstone of the 2025 Ole Miss Rebels
Coach Pete Golding held his first media availability today as Head Coach following the announcement that Ole Miss would be hosting the first round of the College Football Playoff at Vaught Hemingway Stadium, and Coach Golding spent the time shifting the focus from him being named the Head Coach to the guys that earned Ole…
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#6 Ole Miss draws a home game against Tulane in the first round of the College Football Playoff.
For the first time in school history, the 11-1 Ole Miss Rebels are College Football Playoff-bound as they earn an opening round home game at Vaught Hemingway Stadium, where they will host Tulane in a rematch of earlier in the year. Ole Miss dominated the first meeting with the Green Wave 45-10; both teams have…
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Memphis picks up a massive 78-71 win over Baylor on Saturday
Coming off back-to-back wins for the first time this season, the Memphis Tigers would welcome the Baylor Bears to the FedExForum for a massive non-conference opportunity on Saturday afternoon. Needing NCAA Tournament-caliber style wins, the Memphis Tigers came into the game against Baylor looking to improve on the 3-4 record by placing the bad losses…
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Recapping the 2025 Ole Miss football regular season while looking ahead to the College Football Playoff
Despite the undeserved outside noise of the last few weeks, the Ole Miss Rebels have a lot to celebrate: an 11-1 record, 7-1 in conference, wins in the Egg Bowl and Magnolia Bowls, two Heisman hopefuls, and the revival of Ole Miss Football. No matter what happens in the College Football Playoff this season, Ole…
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Memphis dominates New Orleans 86-70
Needing a win in the worst possible way, the Memphis Tigers would welcome New Orleans to the FedEx Forum for a midweek non-conference tilt. Memphis came into the game with a dismal 2-4 record after going winless in the Bahamas before returning home and getting back in the groove with a blowout 74-58 win over…
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Miami comes into Oxford and takes down Ole Miss 75-66
Ole Miss continued the nonconference slate with an SEC/ACC Challenge game against the Hurricanes of Miami inside the friendly confines of the John and Sandy Black Pavilion. Tuesday night was the first chance for Ole Miss to come together as one united front after the events of the prior weekend, where they saw former Head…
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Whoever takes over at Memphis will be inheriting a well oiled sustained success machine
For the first time since the end of the 2019 season, the Memphis Tigers will have a new Head Coach in 2026 as Coach Ryan Silverfield has left Memphis to accept the Head Coaching job at Arkansas. Change is often scary, but this one had been coming for a long time, as the disconnect between…
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Ole Miss will be fine
The last few weeks of Ole Miss football have been among the best in terms of on-field success, but among the most exhausting due to Coach Lane Kiffin’s lack of commitment. Rumors started to swirl that Coach Kiffin was interested in coaching at Florida, LSU, or even a return to the NFL. With the rumors…
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Mississippi State falls in OT 87-81 to SMU
Mississippi State continued its 2025-2026 journey on Friday night as it welcomed the Mustangs of SMU to the Hump for an NCAA Tournament-caliber non-conference matchup. Mississippi State, fresh off an overtime thriller, 81-78, over New Orleans on Monday night, came into the matchup with SMU looking to earn a quality win while building an identity…
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#7 Ole Miss takes down Mississippi State 38-19 to win the 2025 Egg Bowl
On a brisk Black Friday, the 2025 chapter of the Egg Bowl would take place inside the confines of Davis Wade Stadium. On the other sideline, Ole Miss faced the distraction of a potential coaching change, with Coach Kiffin weighing his options between Ole Miss and LSU while trying to maintain College Football Playoff aspirations…
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Memphis closes out the 2025 regular season with a Thanksgiving night showdown with the Navy Midshipmen
In the second annual Thanksgiving game of the year, the Memphis Tigers will welcome the Midshipmen of Navy to Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium for a highly anticipated American Conference matchup. Despite not having the season go the way they intended, with three losses to UAB, Tulane, and East Carolina, the Tigers have long been eliminated…
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Thoughts on Egg Bowl week for both Mississippi State and #6 Ole Miss
Despite the drama-filled noise of the impending Coach Lane Kiffin decision to remain at Ole Miss or bolt for another job, it’s Egg Bowl week across the Magnolia State, and fans from both sides of the aisle appear to be feeling all the emotions this week typically brings. For the Ole Miss faithful, from the…
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Turning the focus to Navy week for the Memphis Tigers
As crazy as it may seem, the time has come to put a bow on the 2025 Memphis football regular season with the final game before the postseason looming on the horizon on Thursday night against Navy. A 2025 season that has seen its highs and lows, the Tigers have the chance on Thursday night…
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Mississippi State opens the 2025 Hall Of Fame Classic with a 98-77 loss to Kansas State
Mississippi State would take the show on the road to Kansas City to take on the 4-0 Kansas State Wildcats in game two of the 2025 Hall of Fame Classic. A win for either team would give them a date with Nebraska in the Hall of Fame Classic Championship game, while the loser would face…
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Memphis comes up just short 80-71 of an upset of #1 Purdue
A few steps away from the crystal clear water of the Bahamas, Coach Penny Hardaway would take his Memphis Tigers up against the top-ranked Purdue Boilermakers in game one of the Baha Mar Hoops Bahamas Championship. A mini tournament, per se, that would guarantee Memphis two games against a guaranteed NCAA Tournament team, with the…
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Thoughts and takeaways from the current state of Memphis Football during the final bye week of the season
Memphis football has reached the final bye week of the season, where they face a difficult path after falling to East Carolina last Saturday, all but ending their hopes of reaching the College Football Playoff and playing for the American Championship. Memphis came into the bye week licking the wounds of back-to-back losses to Tulane…
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Thoughts during the final bye week for Mississippi State football
It all comes down to this, the bye week leading into the Egg Bowl for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, with postseason implications on the minds of both Ole Miss and Mississippi State for different reasons, but the postseason will be there for the taking for both programs. For Mississippi State, this season has seen its…
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Thoughts and takeaways from the last 36 hours of Ole Miss football
Despite all the off-the-field chatter of the possibility of Head Coach Lane Kiffin leaving Ole Miss for another job, Saturday night under the lights at Vaught Hemingway was one of the greatest environments the stadium has ever seen. Vaught-Hemingway was rocking, the students were early, and the extracurricular activities, such as the drone shows and…
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#7 Ole Miss closes out the home regular season slate with a 34-24 win over Florida
On a perfect night for the final home game of the regular season, 7th-ranked Ole Miss welcomed the down-and-out Florida Gators to Vaught Hemingway Stadium for the final tuneup before the Egg Bowl on Black Friday. With all the talk surrounding Lane Kiffin and the Florida Head Coaching vacancy, the environment inside the Vaught Hemingway…
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Ole Miss picks up a statement win over Memphis 83-77
A brisk Tuesday night delivered an early-season rivalry tilt between the Ole Miss Rebels and the Memphis Tigers, with the Sandy and John Black Pavilion serving as the site for another chapter in the longstanding rivalry between the two. Just last season, the Tigers dominated the Rebels 87-70, handing the eventual Sweet 16 Rebels one…
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#16 Iowa State takes down Mississippi State 96-80
In a weird midwest neutral site Monday night matchup, Coach Chris Jans and his Mississippi State Bulldogs travelled to the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for an early-season NCAA Tournament caliber matchup against the Cyclones of Iowa State. With the game being so close to Iowa, the Cyclones’ nation made their presence known…
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#5 Georgia dominates Mississippi State 41-21
A nearly perfect Saturday morning in Starkville, Mississippi, set the scene for the Mississippi State Bulldogs to welcome the 5th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs to Davis Wade Stadium. Mississippi State would come into the matchup with Georgia not only with an upset on the mind, but also with an opportunity to secure a sixth win that would…
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Tulane comes into Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium and stuns Memphis 38-32
On a nearly perfect fall Friday night, the Memphis Tigers would welcome the Tulane Green Wave to Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium for a rivalry that dates back to 1954. Whenever Memphis and Tulane meet on the gridiron, fireworks are likely not far away, and as kickoff of the 2025 chapter of the longstanding feud, with…
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Embracing the moment, while not losing focus on what’s important
With three games remaining, two of which come at home, Coach Ryan Silverfield and the Memphis Tigers have fully embraced the journey as they make a run at not only hosting and winning the American Championship but taking Memphis football to its first-ever College Football Playoff. This level of excitement has only been reached once…
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Ole Miss opens the 2025-2026 season with an 88-58 victory over Southeastern Louisiana
Carrying the mometum from a record-breaking season last season, the Ole Miss Rebels opened the 2025-2026 season inside the friendly confines of the Pavilion as they welcomed the Lions of Southeastern Louisiana to Oxford for the season opener. After last Sunday’s preseason loss to Saint Mary’s, the Rebels were looking for a tune-up against the…
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Thoughts and takeaways from the 38-35 Mississippi State road victory over Arkansas on Saturday
For the first time in nearly two years, the Mississippi State Bulldogs woke up on Sunday feeling the emotional high of winning a Southeastern Conference game the Saturday before. Mississippi State finally got the job done on Saturday night as they went into the mouth of the beast and took down a depleted Arkansas team…
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#7 Ole Miss improves to 8-1 and 5-1 in SEC play with a 30-14 victory over South Carolina
A nearly perfect fall evening was blessed upon Coach Lane Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels as they welcomed the South Carolina Gamecocks to Vaught Hemingway Stadium for a sold-out Saturday night in the Sip. As Ole Miss opened November with a scrappy South Carolina team, the excitement around the program reached an all-time high,…
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Living in the moment while embracing the reality of what’s to come for Ole Miss football this season
As the final seconds ticked off the clock on another Ole Miss football victory on Saturday night in Norman, Oklahoma, the realization of the Rebels now having a wide-open path to the College Football Playoff started to sink in as Rebels Nation started another Saturday night of celebration. For many years, the feeling of being…
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Trusting the process: Taking a look at the final month of the season for Mississippi State
Mississippi State welcomed the Texas Longhorns to Davis Wade Stadium over the weekend for a homecoming heartbreaker. For the second time this season, Coach Lebby and the Bulldogs lost another overtime SEC game at home, while losing a third out of four by a touchdown or less. Heartbreak has been the name of the game…
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Thoughts and takeaways from the first preseason game for the Tigers
Monday night was a bit of a celebration inside the FedEx Forum as the return of John Calipari took place, as Coach Penny Hardaway and the Memphis Tigers welcomed the Arkansas Razorbacks to the 901 for the first of two preseason games before opening the 2025-2026 season against San Francisco on November 8th. A renewal…
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Ole Miss drops the preseason matchup with Saint Mary’s 68-53
With the momentum from last season still fresh on the mind, the Ole Miss Rebels would open the 2025-2026 basketball season on Sunday as they welcomed the Saint Mary’s Gales to the Pavilion for the first and only preseason game between opening the season on November 3rd as they welcome Southeastern Louisiana to Oxford. Always…
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Another heartbreaking loss for Mississippi State as they fall in OT 45-38 to Texas
For the first time since the 1991 season, the Mississippi State Bulldogs would welcome the 22nd-ranked Longhorns of Texas to Davis Wade Stadium as Coach Jeff Lebby and the boys look to pick up their first Southeastern Conference win in two years. For the Longhorns, they limped into Starkville coming off the near-disaster in Lexington…
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