My undergraduate years at Ole Miss spanned four losing football seasons. The first was David Cutcliffe’s last in Oxford, a season that was a year removed from a Cotton Bowl trip on the back of Eli Manning’s fantastic senior season. It was a bad year that kicked off with a loss at home to Memphis.
Yes, my first Ole Miss home game as a freshman was a loss to Memphis. Hell of an act in foreshadowing that was.
That season was a general disaster, with Ole Miss winning only four games (one of which a come-from-behind victory against a ranked South Carolina team in Columbia, go figure).