The No. 9 Ole Miss Rebels and Lane Kiffin lost their third game on Saturday. The Florida Gators upset Ole Miss in Gainesville 24-17 as a 13.5-point underdog on ESPN BET .

CBS Sports’ Shehan Jeyarajah called Ole Miss’s 2024 season a failure after the Rebels lost to Florida and Kentucky and didn’t make the College Football Playoff with a “manageable schedule.” “The Rebels invested a tremendous amount of money into their roster in hopes of competing with the best.

Lane Kiffin is one of the most polarizing coaches in college football, and he’s finally putting it all together in Oxford in his fifth season as the Ole Miss Rebels head coach. He’s assembled a strong group of coaches and one of the more experienced staff in the SEC.