The 10th-ranked Rebels then fell behind to Oklahoma at halftime. In the 10 quarters since, Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin doesn’t think any FBS team has played better. “Some people would say right now we’re playing as well as anybody in the country, which we are,” Kiffin said.

Well, what Kiffin did worked. Ole Miss’s re-worked defensive line dominated in the trenches, holding Georgia to 10 points and sacking Carson Beck 5 times in the dominant victory. One year after Beck torched the Rebels for over 300 yards passing, he only managed 186 yards on Saturday, didn’t throw a touchdown pass and was intercepted once.

It's never fun for a head coach when his team loses a game in heartbreaking fashion, but is it possible that the Ole Miss Rebels' earlier losses this season helped set them up to take down the Georgia Bulldogs over the weekend?