After starting the season 2-2 and losing to Vanderbilt, Ole Miss pulled off a miracle and beat the eventual national champion Florida Gators, on the road, by a blocked extra point.
They won their final 6 games of the season, finished 9-4, No. 14 in the polls, and thrashed Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl. The team that was just 10-25 under the previous coach suddenly enters 2009 as one of the hottest programs in the nation.
"Last year we had an attitude, we're fixing to go hunt," the coach says in his thick Southern accent. "Right now, we're the hunted."
Except this is no sitcom. It's reality television, starring coach Houston Nutt and the Ole Miss Rebels.
They will star in "Gridiron U" this fall, a reality show on a cable channel called TruTV that will give an inside look at the training camp of one of college football's unlikeliest favorites.
The show was Nutt's idea. His players don't exactly have much experience dealing with national media attention.
"I want the cameras on them. I want them to get used to it, not to flinch," said Nutt, the Rebels' second-year coach, at SEC media days this week. "You win six straight, you beat a good team like Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl, there's going to be some attention. Now, you've got to embrace it."The SEC Rocks!
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