Ole Miss enters July with a case to make as one of the most flexible offenses in the SEC, and maybe in college football.
That’s not a small label for a team still weeks away from taking its first snaps. But on paper, the Rebels look built to win in more than one way, and that’s exactly why they belong in the conversation for SEC Championship and College Football Playoff contention.
There are questions, of course. Ole Miss has to replace several key pieces from last season while folding in another top-15 transfer portal class.
That kind of turnover usually brings uncertainty. But under head coach Pete Golding, the Rebels appear positioned to adjust depending on what defenses give them.
If opponents want to crowd the line of scrimmage and take away the perimeter game, offensive coordinator John David Baker has a clear answer: lean on Kewan Lacy. The returning Doak Walker Award winner gives Ole Miss a chance to play a more physical brand of football this season, a shift away from the flash-and-dash style that often defined the Lane Kiffin offense and more toward a ground game that can control the game.
That’s a pretty good place to start if you have what many believe is the best returning running back in college football.
But if defenses decide they’d rather force the new receiving group to prove itself, Ole Miss has another path. Trinidad Chambliss brings a point-guard-like presence at quarterback and offers playmaking ability of his own, which gives the Rebels a different kind of answer when the run game gets squeezed.
The challenge is obvious. With De’Zhaun Stribling, Harrison Wallace II, and Cayden Lee gone, Chambliss doesn’t have much proven production returning on the outside. Still, the additions of Horatio Fields, Jontay Cook II, and Darrell Gill, among others, fit the profile of what has worked there before.
That means opposing defenses may try to make Ole Miss prove it early through the air, stacking the box and daring Chambliss and the new-look receivers to beat them. The question now is how quickly that group can build chemistry.
What Ole Miss does have is a quarterback who stayed explosive last season while limiting turnovers, and that could matter again if the Rebels are forced to find answers on the fly.
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