WHAT TO WATCH FOR
• Ole Miss is making its third straight bowl appearance under Lane Kiffin.
• The Rebels are 12-3 in its last 15 bowl games on the field dating back to the 1992 Liberty Bowl.
• This will be the seventh meeting between Ole Miss and Texas Tech … Ole Miss leads the all-time series 4-2.
• The Texas Bowl will mark the fourth time the Rebels and Red Raiders have met in a bowl game … Ole Miss is 3-0 vs. Texas Tech in bowl games.
• The Rebels lead the SEC and rank No. 6 in the FBS with 82 plays of 20 yards or more.
• Ole Miss ranks top 20 nationally in total rushing yards (3,139), rushing attempts (571), yards per rush (5.5) and rushing TDs (31).
• The Rebels average 491.3 total yards per game, the fifth-best single-season mark in school history … Three of the top five offensive seasons in program history have all come under Kiffin.
• The Rebels are second in the SEC and No. 11 nationally converting on third downs 47.7 percent of the time.
• RB Quinshon Judkins earned numerous postseason awards including CBS National Freshman of the Year and SEC Newcomer of the Year … Judkins is also a finalist for the Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award.
• Judkins leads all SEC running backs in both rushing yards (1,476) and rushing touchdowns (16).
• Zach Evans ranks seventh in the SEC in rushing yards (899).
• WRs Jonathan Mingo and Malik Heath are only the second set of Rebel teammates to both surpass 800 yards receiving in the same season.
• OL Jeremy James has started every game for the Rebels and hasn’t allowed a sack in 387 pass blocks.
• K Jonathan Cruz is 15-for-17 on field goal attempts and ranks second in the SEC in field goal percetage (.882).
OLE MISS HEAD COACH LANE KIFFIN
Lane Kiffin (Fresno State, 1998) is in his third season at Ole Miss and helped lead the Rebels to back-to-back bowl appearances in his first two years in Oxford. Kiffin guided the Rebels to a 10-3 record in 2021, the first 10-win regular season in school history. The Rebels finished the season ranked No. 11 in both the AP and AFCA Coaches Poll; its highest final ranking since 2016. Ole Miss ranked top-20 in the FBS in nine different offensive categories in his first season, including having the No. 3 team in the country in total offense, shattering the school record with 555.5…
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