What if Ole Miss Wins a National Championship?

The Rebels are heading into the 2016-17 season with a hope of reaching the College Football National Championship Game. But the world would be a different place if Ole Miss was able to pull off such a feat.

The average weather in Tampa Bay in January is about 50 degrees at night. That brisk weather would be well worth standing in for hours as we watch blue and red confetti fall out of the sky as the Ole Miss Rebel celebrate a National Championship.

Now I know this is an elaborate wish that’s based on being a fan. But for the first time in my lifetime, I really believe that if everything falls into place, Ole Miss can make a run at a title. I do mean everything has to fall into place, though.

If we avoid major injuries, suspensions, and fluke fourth and 25 plays, we have the talent to compete with anyone in the country.

I feel better about this team than I did last year’s team. This time last year we weren’t fully sure who our starting quarterback was going to be.

But this year we have arguably the best quarterback in the Southeastern Conference in Senior Chad Kelly. And we all know that a good QB combined with a good defense could make noise during the season.

That excitement had me wondering just how would the day after a Ole Miss Championship look. How would Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 be after Coach Hugh Freeze lifts up that National Championship Trophy? How would things change? What would be the country’s reaction to a Rebel title?

ESPN

We have prepare ourselves for the obligatory re-hashing (no pun intended) of Laremy Tunsil’s draft day debacle. We will see the video and the picture of him in the bong mask at least once on each of their shows throughout the entire day. Coach Freeze will be interviewed several times but will have to answer the same five questions, two of which involving Tunsil and NCAA sanctions.

Colin Cowherd

If you don’t want your happy post-title day ruined by agenda driven media, you may want to avoid Colin Cowherd the day after our win. He will dedicate two hours on how Ole Miss “bought” a championship and cheated our way to the top. He’ll have some of the same media types call his show to solidify his claims. He’ll stretch this topic for the entire week because he will draw the losing teams angry fans and thus ratings.

Jim Harbaugh

This one is simple. The day after the game. Jim Harbaugh will petition the NCAA to let him hold a satellite camp in the Grove. He will say that he wants to reach all the youth that don’t have a chance to go to his camp in -20 degree below zero, Ann Arbor. Sounds crazy a little fishy, right? The NCAA allows it.

Alabama

Alabama fans will take to social media in droves. They won’t accuse of cheating because of the whole pot calling the kettle black rule. They will simply say that our championship doesn’t matter because they have 16.

Then they will spend the rest of the Spring calling the Paul Finebaum show screaming next year they are going to win it all and that Tide’s Defensive Coordinator, Jeremy Pruitt should be fire because he’s no Kirby Smart. Roll Tide.

Mississippi State

The day after the Rebel’s victory, the world will be informed through fan pages and several social media accounts that as of January 10th, 2017 the city of Starkville will secede from the State of Mississippi.

They no longer want to be apart of a same state that contains those lyin’, cheatin’ bears from Oxford. Starkville will now become a city-state official called Starkvegas. They will then they will focus their “Our State” billboard campaign to that centralized location, so technically, for the first time the billboard will be true.

Then they will put on a brave face and pretend that the win didn’t bother them. They say how they can’t wait until the NCAA come and strip us of our championship. Then the world we see us for who we really are.

And though it won’t be relevant, they’ll mumble something about Omaha and us staying home. They’ll threaten to boycott the Clarion Ledger for being bias because they spent time talking about our championship and not whatever bowl they barely made it into.

Oxford

When the clock hits zeros on Monday night, Oxford will become the capital of college football. Every major media outlet will be combing the campus for stories about the team’s rise from the SEC ashes.

Then after a long week, Hugh Freeze will walk into McDonalds. He will order a plain Filet O’ Fish sandwich (to symbolize his famous “bass” tweets he sends out). He will then take it to the door step of Lindsey Miller and leave it with a note staple to the bag. And it will read, “Here’s a meal on us. P.S. I’m lovin’ it. Signed your pal H.F. Yahtzee!”

Ross Bjork will be seen walking around campus with the National Championship Trophy on a gold chain around his neck. While he has his championship belt around his waist. And no one will dare say a word.

Every Rebel fan that has ever sat through a Ole Miss loss to a team we should have beaten, or lived through the Ed Orgeron years will be smiling. Those that saw the years when we had a great individual player but couldn’t quite put together an entire team, will be jumping for joy.

Everyone who watches the replay of the fourth and 25 and still yells at the television will be crying tears of happiness in their seats.

It may be far-fetched. It may just be the fan in me speaking. But I would love to wake up on January 10th knowing that we ruled the college football world. And all our haters and enemies will have watch us celebrate.

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Before you say it will never happen, just ask yourself, “did you really see us in the Sugar Bowl last year?” If I were you, to be on the safe side,  I wouldn’t make any plans for January 9th, 2017. You just might be in Tampa that night cheering on the Rebels.