After one year as the Head Coach at Arkansas State, Ole Miss hired Hugh Freeze to the same position for the Rebel. Ole Miss was 6-18 over the two years prior to Freeze’s hiring, and he quickly pulled Ole Miss up from that mess. They won seven, eight, nine and then 10 games in his first four seasons. Then they they get into a new mess.
QB Chad Kelly was making the news for all the wrong reasons, most famously for threatening to “spray” a bar with an AK-47 and for rushing a high school football field when his sibling’s team got into a brawl.