Ole Miss CB Jackson Jones enters NCAA transfer portal

Ole Miss CB Jackson Jones entered the NCAA transfer portal, according to On3’s Pete Nakos. He was in the middle of his second season with the Rebels.

Jones graduated from Grand Island High School (Buffalo, NY) in the Class of 2022. He started his career at Stony Brook but did not see action last season.

He was a non-scholarship player who arrived via transfer in January 2023 and participated in spring drills. Now, Jones will look elsewhere to continue his college career.

Ole Miss is riding high though. The Rebels beat Georgia in a massive win for the program and Lane Kiffin.

“So, that was big as a program and just because Georgia’s been the elite program for a long time and kind of been the bully and, you know, 52 straight games, that’s a lot of games — besides Alabama — that they’ve won, all the way back to Covid,” Kiffin said. “And I think one regular season loss in four or five years. So, that was really big for our program, for our current team, for their confidence and for recruiting, as well.”

Since going 8-2 during the 2020 Covid season where the SEC played only conference opponents, Georgia had been on a dominant run.

Over the 2021, 2022 and 2023 seasons, the Bulldogs went 42-2, winning a pair of national titles along the way. The only two losses came to Alabama in the 2021 and 2023 SEC Championship games.

The last non-Covid regular season loss for Georgia prior to this year came Oct. 12, 2019, against South Carolina. And the last regular season road loss for the Bulldogs was a year prior to that, at LSU on Oct. 13, 2018.

Suffice to say, Kiffin’s assessment about Georgia rolling through the SEC of late is apt. And while the Bulldogs picked up a loss to Alabama earlier this season — the Crimson Tide have been the only team to consistently beat the Bulldogs in this span — it was looking possible that Kirby Smart and Co. would once against pull out an 11-1 campaign and lead the way in the SEC.