Paul Finebaum explains if Ole Miss still has a path to the College Football Playoff
The Ole Miss Rebels can still make the College Football Playoff, despite dropping to 5-2 after losing to LSU over the weekend.
Paul Finebaum has been adamant Lane Kiffin’s crew is on life support, when it comes to the CFP at least. But there’s still a chance.
Finebaum doesn’t think Ole Miss is eliminated from playoff contention just yet.
“No, because they still have one game left that could help them, and that’s the Georgia game,” Finebaum said on McElroy and Cubelic. “But you don’t know really how big that game is going to be if Georgia doesn’t get by Texas. So I think, I mean, they are clearly hanging by a thread. I realize we’ve forgotten Missouri here, but that’s not difficult to do based on how they play recently, but, but I think Ole Miss is really, I mean, they’ve had a pretty disastrous couple of weeks here.”
Coming into the season, Ole Miss was a popular pick to make the COllege Football Playoff. It was expected to be the best Kiffin team of his tenure.
“And it’s more frustrating than normal because of expectations,” Finebaum said. “That’s really what everything is based on. You guys know that. And this was Lane Kiffin’s best team, the best team at Ole Miss since the 60s … I mean all these things … but back to the Alabama conversation. What do we remember? The result.”
Ole Miss had the game won against LSU and it would certainly look a lot different at 6-1, rather than 5-2 with both losses coming in the SEC.
“That’s a hard one, obviously,” Kiffin said postgame. “I feel for the players in the locker room; played really hard. Made some plays at the end. Give them credit too. That last drive in regulation, we led the whole game until the last 30 seconds. To come here and led the whole game, we were doing some things right.
“They made some really big plays. Quarterback played great. Scramble play, a couple of 4th down conversions put us in overtime. Should have never got there. We should have finished it when we had the ball up 4 with a chance to go up two scores. We didn’t do that and put ourselves in a much harder situation.”
The Rebels will get a week off and a chance to reset. Ole Miss is back in action on October 26th when they host Oklahoma.
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