Ole Miss Rebels have one of SEC’s longest title droughts

There are 54 days till college football season, and today we focus on one of the longest title droughts in the SEC.

The Ole Miss Rebels have had a couple really good seasons under Hugh Freeze, with last year not included. But it’s been a while since the Rebels won the Southeastern Conference, and I mean a while.

And that leads us to no. 54 on the Southbound and Down College Football Countdown.

It has been 54 years since Ole Miss’ last SEC championship (1963)

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The 1950’s and 60’s were the golden age of Ole Miss football. They’ve won six SEC championships in school history and five of them came from 1954-1963. The Rebels won the SEC three times in a four-year span from ’60-’63.

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The Rebels also claim three national titles in school history from 1959, 1960, and 1962.

Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt are the only schools in the conference that have never won an SEC championship, but of the schools that have won a conference title, Ole Miss has the second-longest drought. Only Mississippi State’s 76-year drought is longer.

Ole Miss and Texas A&M are the only two teams from the SEC West that have never played in the SEC championship game, while Kentucky and Vanderbilt are the only two teams from the SEC East that have yet to play in the SEC championship game.

Ole Miss looks to bounce back after their 5-7 season last year, but it doesn’t help matters that the Rebels have the cloud of an NCAA investigation hanging over them.

They ray of light for the Ole Miss Rebels could be their rising sophomore quarterback Shea Patterson, who started the final three games of the 2016 season. Patterson will be the most exciting player to watch in the SEC this season.