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Manning and family, most of them confirmed, very excited to have Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl

Most in the Ole Miss football family are excited about the Rebels’ coming Sugar Bowl trip.

None more than the Mannings.

At least, most of the Mannings.

“We’ve been waiting 46 years so Livvy, and I and Cooper, all the Mannings, Eli … well, I haven’t asked Peyton yet, but we’re all pretty doggone excited,” former Ole Miss quarterback and New Orleans resident Archie Manning said. “When we moved here we said, ‘It will be great when Ole Miss comes to the Sugar Bowl.’ Then we started saying, ‘We hope in our lifetime Ole Miss comes to the Sugar Bowl.