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In all, Vaught led Ole Miss to 18 bowl game appearances, posting a 10—8 record in those contests. In 24 seasons, Vaught produced 26 All-America first teamers.
He also coached four players who finished in the top five in the Heisman Trophy voting. Along with Conerly in , Charlie Flowers 5th in , Jake Gibbs 3rd in and Archie Manning 4th in , 3rd in were in the running for college football's top honor.
Failing health forced Vaught to resign his position in and the reins of the Ole Miss football program were turned over to Billy Kinard. See also: Ole Miss Rebels football team. The Rebels went 16—9 under Billy Kinard, including a 10—2 record and a 41—18 Peach Bowl victory over Georgia Tech in his first year in Kinard coached the Rebels through the season and through the third game of the season.
After the disappointing 5—5 season in , there was some pressure among the alumni to have Kinard removed. The administration bowed to this pressure after the Rebels started the season 1—2, including a shutout loss to Missouri, 17—0, and was upset by Memphis State, 17— Both Billy Kinard and Frank Kinard were fired, and John Vaught was rehired as both the head coach and athletic director.
Following the football season, Vaught resigned once again as head coach, but remained on as athletic director. His final record with the Rebels was —61— Ken Cooper, an assistant under Kinard since , was named head coach on Jan. Cooper compiled a 21—23 record during his four years at the helm, and his tenure is probably best remembered for one hot and humid day in September That loss was the Irish's lone setback of the campaign, as Notre Dame finished the season with an 11—1 record and claimed both the AP and UPI national titles.
Following the season, Steve Sloan , the former All-American quarterback at Alabama under Paul "Bear" Bryant , was hired as the new Rebel boss and began his five-year stint in Sloan posted a 20—34 record from to After stepping outside the Ole Miss family football tree the previous nine seasons, Ole Miss looked for a familiar face to lead the football program, and the Rebels found that person when Billy Brewer returned to Oxford to take over as head coach in December In his first season in , Brewer guided the Rebels to their first winning regular season since with a 6—5 record.
The Rebels also went to their first bowl game since , losing to Air Force 9—3 in the Independence Bowl. Brewer remained in Oxford for another ten seasons, leading the Rebels to five winning seasons and four bowls, including Ole Miss' New Year's Day Gator Bowl appearance, which was the program's first January bowl game since He was named SEC Coach of the Year in 8—3—1 record and 9—3 record , and in , the Rebels return to the national rankings for the first time in over a decade.
Brewer coached 11 years —93 and compiled a 67—56—3 record, making him at the time the second winningest Ole Miss football coach behind Vaught. Brewer was dismissed just prior to the season after the NCAA infractions committee found him guilty of "unethical conduct," and Ole Miss defensive coordinator Joe Lee Dunn took over as interim coach, directing the Rebels to a 4—7 record under difficult circumstances highlighted only by a 34—21 victory over rival LSU.
On Dec. That excitement grew in , when Ole Miss recorded its best season since with an 8—4 record, a thrilling 15—14 Egg Bowl victory over Mississippi State and a Motor City Bowl win over Marshall University.
The bowl appearance was the program's first since , and the Rebels earned a final national ranking of No. The revitalized Ole Miss program continued in its success in , but suffered a setback after the Egg Bowl when Tuberville, despite repeated assurances that he would not leave - even going so far as to say "They'll have to take me out of here in a pine box" [18] [19] [20] - , agreed 2 days later to become the head coach at SEC West rival Auburn University.
David Cutcliffe took over as head coach on Dec. Cutcliffe, who came to Ole Miss from his offensive coordinator post at Tennessee, took over the reins just 29 days before the Rebels' Sanford Independence Bowl date versus Texas Tech. Despite the short preparation time for the game, Cutcliffe led the Rebels to a 35—18 victory over the Red Raiders, quite arguably the biggest upset of the bowl season. Cutcliffe brought with him to Oxford a high-powered offensive style that energized the Rebel fanbase.
In the time from to , the Rebels played in six bowl games, tied with Arkansas for the most bowl appearances among SEC Western Division schools during that span. Cutcliffe had four winning seasons in his first five seasons at Ole Miss, in 8—4 , 7—5 , 7—4 and 7—6 , becoming the first Rebel mentor since Harry Mehre —41 to post winning marks in his first five years.
Cutcliffe also directed Ole Miss to four bowl appearances in his first five seasons, and is the only head coach in Ole Miss history to do so. Following their 31—28 victory over Oklahoma State in the Cotton Bowl Classic, the Rebels finished 13 in the final poll.
Despite his 44—29 record, five straight winning seasons, and guiding the team to its first 10 win season in over 30 years, Cutcliffe was fired by Ole Miss's Athletic Director Pete Boone in December after the team posted a disappointing 4—7 record and three consecutive losses to LSU. Ed Orgeron , regarded as one of college football's premier defensive line coaches and recruiters, was named the 35th head football coach in the history of the University of Mississippi on December 16, He also served as USC's recruiting coordinator from to and was named assistant head coach in Orgeron's talent as a recruiter created a buzz among Rebel fans and drew national attention when Ole Miss' signing class ranked as high as fifteenth in the rankings.
His recruiting class was also listed among the best in college football 31 according to scout. However, his recruiting success did not translate to on the field performance.
In , Ole Miss was last in the SEC in scoring offense, turnover margin, rushing offense, rushing defense, punt returns, opponent first downs, red-zone offense, opponent third-down conversions, field goal percentage, time of possession and kickoff coverage.
In , 20 Ole Miss football players were placed on indefinite probation by the University for having stolen pillows and clock radios from hotels in which the team had stayed in. Coach Orgeron stated that the incident would be dealt with internally and that no one would miss the season finale against arch-rival Mississippi State, because none of the 20 players had been a discipline problem before.
For the same reason, that being no previous discipline issues, the school refused to release the names of the players. The season was a historic one for Ole Miss. The Rebels went winless in the SEC for the first time since — 25 years. The season culminated with the firing of Orgeron on November 24, Three days later, Houston Nutt was hired as the next head football coach. The next day, November 28, , just five weeks after having defeated Ole Miss as the head coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks , Nutt was officially introduced as the new Ole Miss head football coach at a press conference at the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for Performing Arts on the Ole Miss campus.
That's the reason I am here. I feel like this place can be successful. I feel like this place can win. I can't wait to tell our players this afternoon. That's how you spell fun. Rebels Wish Revolutions was, in fact, inspired from some of the darkest days of my life. From a life filled with abuse, manipulation and addiction. I simply had enough and needed to pull myself up and out of the dumps.
This did not by any means happen over night. More of a 3 year process of a lifetime of WTF!!! No one was going to do it for me and trust me my rebelious side pushed my limits and others limits.
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