Ole Miss took a hard fall in the latest College Football Playoff rankings, dropping from No. 10 to No. 19 after its lopsided 42-7 home loss to Georgia in Week 10.
That defeat changed the conversation fast. The Rebels entered the first CFP rankings with a respectable spot, but after the weekend they’re now staring at a much tougher path and know they no longer control their own postseason fate with three regular-season games left.
Still, the door isn’t shut. Ole Miss is not mathematically out of the playoff picture after nine games, but the path is thin and crowded. The Rebels need help, and a lot of it, with chaos around teams like Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and Kentucky, among others.
Starting safety Joenel Aguero said the rankings don’t change the approach inside the program.
“Me personally, I really don’t pay any mind to (the rankings). At the end of the day, it’s college football.
Anything can happen at any time," Aguero said. "So I think just keeping our head down and working every week - and we’re going to see the outcomes.
We just gotta keep working and let it play out.”
The numbers still give Ole Miss some reason to believe. ESPN’s FPI has the Rebels at No. 2 in strength of schedule and No. 11 in strength of record. But the losses to Florida and Georgia are dragging them down, and the first half of the Texas game was headed in the same direction before Ole Miss steadied itself enough to push that one to the final play.
The schedule doesn’t offer much breathing room either. Oklahoma is the only remaining opponent above .500, while Wofford and Mississippi State are up next to close things out. Even so, Ole Miss has already collected four wins over teams above .500, a mark topped by only six teams nationally.
The Rebels head to Norman for Week 11, where they’ll face Oklahoma at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday at 3:15 p.m. CT on the SEC Network. Ole Miss is listed as a 1.5-point road favorite.
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