The 2007 college football season was a sublime doozy. Nick Saban lost to Louisiana Monroe. Appalachian State upset Michigan in stupendously Wolverines fashion. USF was ranked No. 2 for a time. Pitt completed the most stunning college football upset of all time.
And in Oxford, Miss., one Ed Orgeron — head coaching successor to David Cutcliffe — led the Ole Miss Rebels to a 3-9 record before mercifully receiving the ax, having failed utterly to tally an in-conference SEC win. (This was also the year that the “S-E-C S-E-C S-E-C!” chant was born, but Rebel football would contribute not a whit to its installment in the fabric of college football).