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His appearances came amid several first-round losses, such as Notre Dame’s 27-17 win over Indiana and Penn State’s 38-10 win over SMU.

Kiffin had nothing to say on social media as Tennessee — a team in his conference — collapsed at the hands of Ohio State on Saturday. The Vols, the last SEC team admitted to the CFP behind Georgia and Texas, lost to the Buckeyes 42-17.

That the SEC’s third-best team lost handily hurt Kiffin’s argument that Ole Miss’s record was better than some other playoff teams because of the SEC’s strength, which was apparently why he stopped talking about the CFP afterward. Committee to post Buckeyes ran away with the game.

Ole Miss earned a handful of respectable victories in its fifth year under Kiffin, such as the win over South Carolina and the upset over Georgia, but the Rebels’ losses outweighed their victories. They lost at home to Kentucky, which finished the year 4-8, before later losing to LSU and Florida.

A surprising loss probably wouldn’t have knocked Ole Miss out of the College Football Playoff, but three lost games were enough for the committee to leave the Rebels out.