The Ole Miss Rebels played the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in Winston-Salem on Saturday night.
Ole Miss cruised to a 40-6 win in what was supposed to be the first game of a home-and-home series with Wake Forest.
Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin, however, revealed after the game that Wake Forest is opting out of next season’s game against Ole Miss, news that was confirmed by The Clarion Ledger on Saturday evening.
“We called over and (Wake Forest athletic director) John Currie said ‘we’re not playing next year’ and bought out of the game,” explained Kiffin. “So I thought that was a good message for our players — that somebody would want to pay money not to play them. Says a lot about where our program is right now.”
That’s a tough decision by Currie, a former Tennessee athletic director.
(Currie was actually an associate athletic director at Tennessee in late 2008 when Kiffin was hired to replace Phillip Fulmer at UT.)
Wake Forest obviously isn’t in the Rebels’ league. Playing Wake Forest in Oxford would almost certainly result in another blowout loss for the Demon Deacons.