Ole Miss football sells out season tickets as Simmons era begins
Ole Miss football season tickets are sold out for the 2025-26 campaign, the school announced on Monday.
The Rebels are entering their sixth season under head coach Lane Kiffin. They’ve won 10 or more games in three of the last four years.
Ole Miss is replacing over 70 percent of its starting lineup, including a first-year starting quarterback in Austin Simmons. Simmons is taking over for three-year record-setter Jaxson Dart, a first-round NFL Draft selection of the New York Giants.
Dart threw for 4,729 yards, 29 touchdowns and an SEC-leading 329.2 yards last season. He was named all-conference. Simmons received playing time for the first time in his career and completed 19 of 32 passes for 282 yards and two touchdowns in nine games.
“It’s the only thing I really want. That’s the top goal — winning a national championship and leading this team and paving this road to glory,” Simmons said of his goals as new Ole Miss QB1. “All that great juice like storming the field at the end of the year in January, that’s the one thing I really want. That’s the one thing I think we can achieve as a team.”
Ole Miss opens against Georgia State on August 30.
The first-ever meeting between the teams is set for 6:45 p.m. CT on NEC Network.
The Rebels the following two weeks face off against back-to-back SEC opponents. They’re at Kentucky September 6 at 2:30 p.m. CT on ABC before returning home to host Arkansas September 13 at 6 p.m. or 6:45 p.m. CT on either ESPN or SEC Network.
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Their remaining home games include Tulane, LSU, Washington State, South Carolina, The Citadel and Florida. Ole Miss last week received 30.7 percent odds to make the 2026 College Football Playoff, according to the ESPN FPI.
The Rebels just missed out last season.
“It’s been an amazing five years,” Kiffin told Matt DeGregorio of WLOX at a Grove Collective Caravan stop last month. “Won a lot of games, made a lot of great relationships with people there (and) at the university. So many players come in, so many just got drafted and moved on to NFL teams. I think it’s like 20 signed. It’s been a great run.”
FanDuel has set Ole Miss’ projected win/loss total for next season at 8.5.
The Rebels are near-40-point favorites against Georgia State.
“From an offensive standpoint I think we’re going to be really great this year,” Ole Miss projected starting center Brycen Sanders exclusively told the Ole Miss Spirit. “The wide receivers we brought in are pretty dang good. Caleb Odom, his wingspan’s crazy. He’s a very good wide receiver. (De’Zhaun) Stribling’s very good, (Harrison) Wallace from Penn State’s great. Kewan (Lacy), running back, is great. We’ve got a great offense. It’s going to be fun in terms of the offensive line. We have a great o-line room. Everyone just wants to work and put their heads down.
“In terms of the defense, I can’t really speak on corners and linebackers; I don’t really pay attention much. But the defensive line’s got some damn good interior d-linemen. It’s going to be a good year. (Zxavian Harris) might be one of the biggest nose guards in the country. He’s really good. (William) Echoles is good. (Jam Brown’s) really good.”
