Fox Sports Analyst Breaks Down Why Ole Miss Football is a Top-25 Team Post-Spring

Ole Miss will have a different look in 2025 with the program reconstructing the roster during a pivotal offseason, but it isn't stopping analysts from believing in the Rebels.

Lane Kiffin and Co. will have redshirt-sophomore Austin Simmons under center as the new signal-caller in Oxford with first-rounder Jaxson Dart headed to the NFL.

Despite a new quarterback lining up for the Rebels, alongside multiple new wideouts, there's a belief in what Ole Miss can put together.

Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt evaluated the Rebels and the product they can put on the field in 2025. He has included Ole Miss in his post-spring Top-25

“At No. 20, I’ve got Ole Miss,” Klatt stated. “They’ve got to replace a lot of talent, obviously, from last year’s team, including Jaxson Dart, now a first-round quarterback after that selection by the Giants. They’re going to turn to Austin Simmons, who backed up Dart last year.

“Lane’s always active in the portal. They’re always going to be talented. They brought in reinforcements. I just, you know, as I’m sitting there, and I’m listing teams, and I’m looking at teams and coaches and thinking about the guys that I trust, the systems that I trust. It’s easy to leave Ole Miss, you know, out at times, but I’m not going to do that.

“I just, I trust, I know this sounds crazy after the little Twitter stuff, but like I trust Lane Kiffin a lot on the field. He’s going to have a very good football team. And so I’ve got them at No. 20.”