A little over a year ago, the Ole Miss fan base was about as low as they could go. They were looking for a change. They were looking for someone to come in and give them something to be proud of. Enter Hugh Freeze. In just over a year on the job, Freeze has turned a bottom-dwelling program in the toughest football conference in the country to a program that has gained...

I stepped on to the Ole Miss football beat for The Daily Mississippian at the beginning of the 2010 football season and immediately realized that the Ole Miss football program, which had won 18 games and back-to-back Cotton Bowls over the past two seasons, was headed in a drastically different direction. The Rebels lost 49-48 that day in double overtime against Jacksonville...