Mississippi’s season ends with 5-7 record, lopsided loss

So when Mississippi State (4-7, 2-5 Southeastern Conference) travels to face Ole Miss (5-6, 2-5) on Saturday for their annual rivalry game, Freeze feels that no lead will be safe.

Hugh Freeze’s press conference had a much different tone.

Brown and MSU’s season will end somewhere other than Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

Defense is a key element of success in the SEC and coach Freeze is on a mission to fortify the Ole Miss defense for the 2017 season.

For coverage of the game, see Sunday’s Starkville Daily News.

APNewsNow.Mississippi says defensive coordinator Dave Wommack will retire at the end of the season.

Aeris Williams was simply unstoppable.. With a new normal being established, it is also hard to believe the Rebels will not be going to a fifth-straight bowl.

Ole Miss led the country in scoring defense in 2014, but has slipped each of the last two years. The Rebels’ linebacker corps was non-existent, similar to what it has been all season long.

Patterson and RB Akeem Judd combined for 180 yards on the ground, but Ole Miss was unable to move the ball through the air while playing from behind for most of the game.

“I was excited about building this program the way we built it the first four years, and it was just kind of downer this year”, Wommack said moments after Ole Miss’ 55-20 loss to Misssissippi State. Mississippi State still stands a chance at being one of the few 5-7 teams to earn a postseason trip. The Katy, Tex. native chose the Rebels over offers from Arkansas, Air Force, Colorado, Fresno State, Harvard, Memphis, SMU, Tulane, UCF and Yale. But, positivity. Patterson has thrown six touchdown passes in his first three collegiate starts.

Nick Fitzgerald is a star in the making.. Once again, UW had an answer in the form of a 7-0 run, which was sparked by Cayla McMorris’ 3-point play that pushed Wisconsin ahead, 15-12 with just under two minutes remaining in the first quarter.

Questions are now going to be asked in Oxford.. As the Rebels’ head coach was speaking to the media after the loss on Senior Day, he sounded more dispirited than he did after last week’s 38-17 loss at Vanderbilt. If he inherited a program “in the wilderness”, I’ve no way to describe the current state of the program.

“I nearly (decided to retire) after the 2014 season, and we thought ‘Man, we are having fun so let’s keep going and all that stuff, ‘” Wommack said. Within hours they all occurred Saturday night. I hate it for our fans, seniors and university.

Part of the reason he was glad the season was over was so he could hit the recruiting trail.