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Ole Miss set to begin practices for Sugar Bowl today
Ole Miss set to begin practices for Sugar Bowl today
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Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin barks instructions during practice. (Photo: OMA)
The Ole Miss Rebels will hit the field for the first of 15 bowl practices Monday morning in Oxford. The Rebels, who last played in a 31-21 Thanksgiving night victory over rival Mississippi State, are set to reconvene at 11 a.m. Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin and select players will be made available to the media following the practice.
No. 8 Ole Miss (10-2, 6-2 SEC) is set to battle the 7th-ranked Baylor Bears (11-2, 7-2 Big 12) in the Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on New Year's night. Kickoff is set for 7:45 p.m. CT. The contest will be nationally televised on ESPN.
Baylor, which defeated Oklahoma State, 21-16, to win its third Big 12 title in the last nine years, has won 11 games for just the third time in history. Four of those wins came against Top-25 opponents. Saturday’s victory marked the 12th time this season that the Bears held an opponent below its scoring average. They rank No. 14 in the country with 19.15 points allowed per game.
Ole Miss, which posted its first 10-win regular season in program history, posted wins over a pair of Top 25 teams. The Rebels closed their season with a thrilling 31-21 victory over archrival Mississippi State in the annual Egg Bowl. They rank No. 4 in the country with 506.7 yards per game and No. 18 in scoring with 35.9 points per game.
Baylor will be making its third Sugar Bowl appearance. The Bears lost to Georgia, 26-14, in the 2020 game, which came 63 years after their first Sugar Bowl – a 13-7 win over Tennessee in the 1957 Classic. Ole Miss, meanwhile, will be making its 10th Sugar Bowl appearance, the third-most all-time. However, the Rebels only have one appearance in the last 51 years – a 48-20 victory over Oklahoma State in the 2016 Sugar Bowl. Their overall mark is 6-3 in the Sugar Bowl.
“We’re proud to bring a great match-up of top 10 teams to this year’s Sugar Bowl,” said Sugar Bowl CEO Jeff Hundley. “Both teams have excelled behind the leadership of second-year coaches, who have lifted their programs to great heights. We’re expecting a highly competitive game featuring the up-tempo offense of Ole Miss against the hard-pressing defense of Baylor. We’ve had each of these teams in recent years and know first-hand about the passion of their outstanding fan bases. It will be nice to have an electric environment in the Superdome again this year.”
This will just be the second all-time meeting between Baylor and Ole Miss. The two schools played on September 6, 1975, with the Bears holding off the Rebels, 20-10, in Waco.
Ole Miss will be the home team and will occupy the home bench on the West Sideline of the Caesars Superdome while Baylor will occupy the visitor bench on the East Sideline. In non-semifinal years, the Big 12 and the SEC alternate home and visitor designations annually (the Big 12 was the home team for the 2020 Sugar Bowl).
SOURCE: Johnson, David. "Ole Miss set to begin practices for Sugar Bowl today." Inside the Rebels - 247Sports.com, 13 December 2021,
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