Ole Miss earns New Year's Six bowl bid, will play Penn State in Peach Bowl.
For a second time in the last three years Ole Miss football is ending its season in a New Year’s Six bowl game.
After securing another 10-win regular season Ole Miss put themselves in position to secure a NY6 bowl bid and in fact did so on Sunday when the Rebels learned they will play in the Peach Bowl later this month.
No. 11 Ole Miss (10-2) will take on No. 10 Penn State (10-2) inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 30 at Noon ET. This is a return to the Peach Bowl for the third in Ole Miss program history and first time in nine years. The last trip to Atlanta was December 31, 2014 against TCU.
This will be the first time the Rebels and Nittany Lions have met on the football field.
When it comes to NY6 bowl appearances this is the fourth overall bid for the Rebels, dating back to that 2014 Peach Bowl. New Year’s Six bowl games began in 2014 with the creation of the College Football Playoffs.
Lane Kiffin leads the Rebels back to a second NY6 bowl game in his four years in Oxford. Ole Miss played in the 2021 Sugar Bowl in Kiffin’s second year after the first 10-win regular season in program history. The Rebels have reached a bowl game in each of Kiffin’s first four years in Oxford.
The Cotton Bowl and Citrus Bowls were the other two possibilities for the Rebels but No. 9 Missouri took the slot in the Cotton Bowl, playing No. 7 Ohio State.
After losing to Georgia on November 11 Ole Miss went on to beat ULM and Mississippi State in a five-day span to finish with 10 wins and secure a return to an access bowl with the Citrus Bowl the worst game the Rebels would end up in.
