Ole Miss' push for the College Football Playoff took a death blow Saturday after a 24-17 road loss to unranked Florida on Saturday afternoon in

With 1:32 left in the fourth quarter, Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart, playing aggressively and desperately, threw an end-zone interception into triple coverage. But Florida called game with a second interception against Dart with 17 seconds left after Ole Miss got the ball back.

Pete Carroll usually had one bad game per season at USC. Lane Kiffin usually has three bad games a year as a head coach. It makes you appreciate Pete even more. Lane Kiffin is the most overrated football coach in the country and it’s not close.

Of course, it couldn't be that simple. This is Ole Miss football we're talking about, where things always find a way to go sideways. And sure enough, after a year of pushing the boulder up the hill, Kiffin's program is now right back where it started: stuck infuriatingly in the middle, wondering what it will take to smash that glass ceiling.

Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin wore the blank stare of a man whose world had flipped upside down as he walked out of his postgame press conference Saturday. The words he’d just said summed up the situation perfectly,

Ole Miss wasn't built for CFP survival this year. But a good example of that is the team Ole Miss beat two weeks ago: Georgia.

Lane Kiffin has found success at the collegiate level with Ole Miss and would likely get interest from a number of NFL teams if he decided to make the jump