Multiple analysts on ESPN's College Gameday projected that the Ole Miss Rebels will make the College Football Playoff this season.
On the first edition of this season's College Gameday, four of the analysts on the show gave their predictions on the field of the new 12-team College Football Playoff. Three of those four analysts included Ole Miss in their projections with varying seeds, and you can view those predictions below.Beginning with former Alabama coach Nick Saban, he has the Rebels as the No. 8 seed, hosting a first round playoff game that is a rematch of last season's Peach Bowl against Penn State.
Pat McAfee is the most optimistic on Ole Miss, giving the Rebels the No. 5 seed and playing host to Boise State in the first round. The winner of that game would advance to face No. 4 Virginia Tech, in his projections. Kirk Herbstreit did not include the Rebels in his playoff field, but Desmond Howard rounded out the group by placing Ole Miss at the No. 6 seed and hosting Notre Dame in Oxford. The winner of that game in Howard's projections would go on to play the three-seed Miami Hurricanes.
There is obviously a lot of time between today's Week 0 games and the cementing of the playoff field, but Ole Miss is still widely considered to be in contention for one of these 12-team spots. That amount of hype is something that head coach Lane Kiffin is working to guard against as his team's season opener approaches next week.. "I talk extensively about it to the players because I think that comes at them nonstop nowadays because of phones. That's a big concern of mine.
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