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Double Digits: A look back at a season worth remembering

What makes a great football team? Is it a solid, bend-but-don’t break defense? Maybe it’s a wide-open, full-throttle offense that keeps the Tigers and the Razorbacks of the world up at night guessing, or even a star quarterback that keeps everyone (including his own coach) guessing at his next miraculous escape and throw.

Could the “secret sauce” of a great eam really boil down to a simple coaching issue, limiting any worthy squad to the ceiling that its coach provides? It’s hard to give a hard and fast solution to that question, but if any of the answers above may suffice, the 2021-2022 Ole Miss Rebels were absolutely such a team.