Jaxson Dart’s feathered blond hair was tucked under a black hoodie, zipped tightly to his chin. Stone-faced, the quarterback couldn’t stop shaking his head in disbelief.
“I don’t understand how we lost,” he said.
“We should win that game,” coach Lane Kiffin said.
Ole Miss had already suffered a loss to Kentucky. This one landed harder.
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“We have followed a plan that was deliberate and intentional to make an effort to be in this first 12-team Playoff,” said Walker Jones, the executive director of The Grove Collective. “That started two years ago.”
It culminated this fall, Jones said, having invested more than $10 million into a roster loaded with talent and highly recruited transfers.
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