New Orleans, baby. The Crescent City. No. 12 Ole Miss and No. 16 Oklahoma State ringing in the new year in the Big Easy. Bourbon Street, Marie Laveau and the Superdome. The Rebels and Cowboys will reunite after a six year hiatus for perhaps the flashiest of the Jan. 1 matchups on the table, but the respective paths each took to New Orleans this season couldn't be more different. Let's examine Hugh Freeze's and Mike Gundy's 2015 report cards.
It feels strange to recall that Oklahoma State was unranked for the first two weeks of 2015 and didn't meet a ranked opponent until Week 9, when the Cowboys dismantled then-No.