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Where does Ole Miss land in Summer bowl projections?

11by: Jake Thompson07/01/25JakeThompsonOn3
NCAA Football: Furman at Mississippi
Aug 31, 2024; Oxford, Mississippi, USA; Mississippi Rebels helmet on the sideline during the second half against the Furman Paladins at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports

Fall camp is still a month away but the calendar has turned to July and that signals the start of talking season for Ole Miss and nearly every other college football team across the country.

The Southeastern Conference Media Days begin in two weeks in Atlanta but before that there is already a rolling out of way-too-early bowl game projections.

For the Rebels the Summer predictions do not have them sniffing the College Football Playoffs, at least according to On3’s Brett McMurphy and CBS Sports.

In late May CBS Sports released its very early bowl projections for the 2025 season, putting Ole Miss in Nashville for the Music City Bowl against Illinois on December 30 at 4:30 p.m. CT on ESPN.

McMurphy released his initial bowl projections on Tuesday and followed CBS Sports’ lead. He also has the Rebels and Fighting Illini meeting in Nashville.

With these rolling out in Spring and mid-Summer it is hard to put a lot of stock into any bowl projections at this stage of the year. Zero games have been played, yet it does give a barometer of what the national mindset is for Ole Miss.

Vegas experts have set the win total for the Rebels at 8.5, meaning the expectation of either finishing 8-4 or 9-3 is in the cards and put the bowl such as Music City in play. The latter would be a repeat of last season which ended with a Gator Bowl appearance and win for Ole Miss over Duke this past January.

If this prognostication turned out correct in six months then it would also be a meeting between Illinois quarterback Luke Altmyer against his former team. The Starkville native announced his decision to return for a final season back in December.

Ole Miss is led by first-year starting quarterback Austin Simmons, taking over for the departed Jaxson Dart who is now working his way up the ranks of the New York Giants quarterback depth chart.

“We’re looking pretty darn well, right now,” Simmons said earlier this Summer of his workouts with the receivers. “We’re going against some great guys (like the Ole Miss defense) every single day. Really just putting forth all that work and really just preparing ourselves for next season.”

The Rebels host Georgia State in the season opener on August 30 at 6:45 p.m. CT on SEC Network.

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