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Ole Miss Stars Hit Casino Shortly After Potential Season-Ending Loss To LSU

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The Ole Miss Rebels entered the 2024 college football season with legitimate national championship aspirations.

The Rebs landed at No. 6 in the preseason AP Poll, their highest preseason ranking since 1970. Star quarterback Jaxson Dart returned, as did preseason All-American tight end Caden Prieskorn, joining big-name transfers such as Walter Nolen and Princely Umanmielen.

But seven games into the season, Ole Miss’s title hopes are already on life support after losses to Kentucky and LSU. One more loss likely eliminates the Rebels from College Football Playoff contention and they still have games against Oklahoma, Arkansas and Georgia remaining.

So you’d think the would use the bye this week to lock back in, right?

Wrong.

Ole Miss Stars Spotted Flaunting Cash Outside Casino During Bye Week

Instead, Dart, Prieskorn and third-string QB (and LSU transfer) Walker Howard used the week off to hit the casino.

While nothing about that is inherently wrong, they’re all of legal age and presumably weren’t betting on sports, it’s still a rough look.

Those are two of your leaders, including your senior quarterback, who appear to be not all that concerned about the season spiraling down the drain.

On one hand, the bye week is meant to a break. Players should take some time to decompress. But the Rebs are currently at critical mass. Their roster is likely as loaded as it will ever be and the college football landscape is wide open this season.

If you’re going to contend for a national championship, it’s going to happen this year.

Combine Dart’s seeming lack of focus with the TikTok cheating controversy that has surrounded him all year and it’s easy to see why Ole Miss’s season has gone off the rails.

Maybe this galvanizes the team and it runs the table to make the playoffs. But if I were Rebels fans, I can’t say I’d be feeling overly optimistic about that right now.