Ole Miss football officially lands in Jacksonville ahead of Thursday’s Gator Bowl
JACKSONVILLE — The Ole Miss football team has landed in Jacksonville!
Head coach Lane Kiffin and his Rebels arrived Sunday ahead of the team’s Gator Bowl matchup against Duke.
Ole Miss (9-3, 5-3 SEC) will play the Blue Devils (9-3, 5-3 ACC) on Thursday, January 2nd with kickoff set for 6:30 p.m. CT. The Rebs are looking to win their 10th game and become the first Ole Miss team to win back-to-back 10-win games since the 1959 and 1960 teams.
This is the fifth-straight bowl game for Coach Kiffin since his arrival in Oxford.
Ole Miss Athletics offered these pictures of the Rebels’ arrival in Jacksonville Sunday.
QB Jaxson Dart
CB Trey Amos
DE Princely Umanmielen
LB TJ Dottery
DT Walter Amos
LB/DE Suntarine Perkins
DE Jared Ivey
DT JJ Pegues
DT JJ Pegues and QB Jaxson Dart
Evelyn Van Pelt
Evelyn has covered sports for over two decades, beginning her journalism career as a sports writer for a newspaper in Austin, Texas. She attended Texas A&M and majored in English. Evelyn's love for Ole Miss began when her daughter Katie attended the university on a volleyball scholarship. Evelyn created the Rebel Walk in 2013 and has served as publisher and managing editor since its inception.
