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The 10 saddest Ole Miss teams: The 1994 season that survived lightning, but not the SEC

No really, lightning struck an assistant coach mid-game (he was fine!). Our countdown continues with No. 7.

Last week in our summer-long series concerning failures of Ole Miss past, we put on our 1980s red pants and waded through three of Billy Brewer's worst teams, which composed numbers 10, 9, and 8 in our countdown. This week, we move into the next decade, but not out of the Brewer coaching tree.

In July of 1994, Ole Miss fired Billy Brewer as a result of an NCAA investigation that accused his program of multiple violations for the SECOND TIME IN LESS THAN TEN YEARS (to be fair, it was only 15 violations in 1994, compared to 27 in 1986).