It’s foolish to describe Ole Miss’ 2017 season as a disappointment. Enough offseason turmoil resulting in the installation of Matt Luke as interim coach rendered Rebel football’s collective floor in 2017 as sitting somewhere between whale shit and the bottom of the ocean. Expectations were low, let’s say.
The final 6-6 record in 2017 was a full game’s worth of improvement over the previous season under Hugh Freeze, when the team went 5-7 and failed to reach a bowl game. The one-game difference, there? The Egg Bowl, which was wild and just as spunky as we’d all expected.