Sudu Says: ‘Fire we haven’t seen in a long time’ coming to VHS for CFP

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🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Sudu Upadhyay is expecting a motivated Ole Miss Saturday against Tulane.

The 6-seed Rebels (11-1) take on the 11-seed Green Wave in the first round of the College Football Playoff at 2:30 p.m. CT on TNT/HBO Max. They’ll be playing their first game without Lane Kiffin as head coach. Ole Miss defeated Tulane, 45-10, in the regular season.

But a lot has changed. Jon Sumrall will leave for Florida after the postseason. Ole Miss is now led by Pete Golding after Kiffin left for SEC rival LSU two weeks ago.

Golding was Ole Miss defensive coordinator the last three seasons and will continue to call plays.

“I can't imagine any other feeling for them other than, ‘We’re out to prove everybody wrong,’ essentially,” Upadhyay said in a. Sit-down with fellow Ole Miss Spirit contributor Brad Logan.

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0:39.6	because of the postgame in Sanford Stadium when Georgia beat Ole Miss late in the game.
0:44.8	Thanks for coming on today.
0:46.1	Yeah, absolutely.
0:46.9	Yeah, that post game, that was fun, first of all.
0:50.3	It was awesome being on with YouTube, but I caught some heat for that, man.
0:53.6	There were some comments on YouTube. People are upset that I gave such an honest opinion on
0:59.4	how Ole Miss's defense played. Apparently, I was glazing Georgia too much, I believe,
1:04.1	was one of the comments. But I just call it how I see it, man. But yeah, that was a good time.
1:09.4	Looking at, I know you've seen the press conference, it is night and day from the head
1:14.5	coaching position at Ole Miss with Lane Kiffing going to LSU for now, anyway.
1:19.4	And Pete Golding, the new head coach at Ole Miss, what did you take away?
1:22.8	It wasn't a press conference necessarily, but it kind of was, it was our first media
1:26.7	ability with the new head coach.
1:29.2	Yeah, I mean, that was the closest thing to an introductory press conference.
1:32.7	You could obviously get, obviously Pete mentioned he, you know, canceled the original one
1:38.3	or didn't want to have it because it wasn't about him.
1:41.7	It was about the players.
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