Ole Miss Debuts at No. 11 in Initial College Football Playoff Rankings
Oxford, Miss. – It’s that time of year again. College football fans waited anxiously on Tuesday night as the first college football playoff rankings were released. Ole Miss, who has catapulted into the national conversation the last two seasons, found itself ranked at No. 11 in the initial poll.
The Rebels are in the midst of a bye week, awaiting a much-anticipated matchup with Alabama on November 12th. The Crimson Tide enters the initial playoff poll at No. 6. The Tide will be in action this weekend, facing No. 10 LSU.
The top four spots, the most important spots in the poll, featured No. 4 Clemson, No. 3 Georgia, No. 2 Ohio State, and No. 1 Tennessee. The Volunteers and Bulldogs will meet this weekend in perhaps the biggest game of the season so far.
The entire poll is as follows:
No. 1 Tennessee
No. 2 Ohio State
No. 3 Georgia
No. 4 Clemson
No. 5 Michigan
No. 6 Alabama
No. 7 TCU
No. 8 Oregon
No. 9 USC
No. 10 LSU
No. 11 Ole Miss
No. 12 UCLA
No. 13 Kansas State
No. 14 Utah
No. 15 Penn State
No. 16 Illinois
No. 17 North Carolina
No. 18 Oklahoma State
No. 19 Tulane
No. 20 Syracuse
No. 21 Wake Forest
No. 22 NC State
No. 23 Oregon State
No. 24 Texas
No. 25 UCF
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— ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) November 1, 2022
Ole Miss and Alabama will kick off at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 12th. The game will air on CBS. Depending on the matchup results between Alabama and LSU, the contest between the Rebels and Crimson Tide could potentially decide the SEC West.
Austin Eldridge
Austin has more than ten years in sports media, including sports talk radio, play-by-play broadcasting and journalism. He has followed Ole Miss athletics for his entire life and has covered the Rebels and the rest of the SEC while working in the Memphis media market. Outside of sports media, Austin is a musician and outdoorsman. Before a serious accident forced him to be medically discharged, he was a multi-media journalist with the Mississippi National Guard.
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