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On Saturday evening, Ole Miss football dropped to 8-2 on the 2023 season with a crushing 52-17 road loss at the hands of the reigning national champions, the Georgia Bulldogs. Ole Miss actually got off to a solid start in this one, scoring the first touchdown of the game after driving down the field in relatively convincing fashion; however, it was all Georgia from there, as the Bulldogs scored 31 unanswered points at one point in the contest.
After the game, Ole Miss football head coach Lane Kiffin got one hundred percent honest on the talent gap between the two teams that was wildly apparent on the field on Saturday night.
“We've got to recruit at a higher level,” said Kiffin, per Michael W. Bratton on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “And I'm not blaming [the players], we have to coach better. But at some point, whatever those stats are, we've signed one Five Star, they've signed 24. Those do show up at some point, so we have to recruit at a better level, do a better job of recruiting.”
Recruiting is indeed the name of the game in modern-day college football. While Ole Miss certainly isn't untalented, few if any programs in the nation can stack up with the sheer amount of star power compiled by Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs in recent seasons, which has led the team to two consecutive national championships, and potentially a third in a couple of months.
Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss will next take the field against Louisiana-Monroe on November 18.
