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LSU football’s 2020 draft and why it was tough for Ole Miss

By Zach Ragan

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JANUARY 13: Head coach Ed Orgeron of the LSU Tigers raises the National Championship Trophy with Joe Burrow #9, Grant Delpit #7, and Patrick Queen #8 after the College Football Playoff National Championship game at the Mercedes Benz Superdome on January 13, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The LSU Tigers topped the Clemson Tigers, 42-25. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JANUARY 13: Head coach Ed Orgeron of the LSU Tigers raises the National Championship Trophy with Joe Burrow #9, Grant Delpit #7, and Patrick Queen #8 after the College Football Playoff National Championship game at the Mercedes Benz Superdome on January 13, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The LSU Tigers topped the Clemson Tigers, 42-25. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images) /
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LSU football set a SEC record with 14 players selected in the 2020 NFL Draft.

2020 has been the year of LSU football so far.

After winning the national championship by beating Clemson in January, LSU football continued their hot streak by having 14 players selected in the 2020 NFL Draft.

The 14 selections broke a SEC record previously held by Alabama (12 players selected in 2018) and it tied an all-time record set by Ohio State in 2004.

But while Tigers fans across the country were celebrating LSU’s success in the draft, there was one program that probably didn’t handle it too well.

Ole Miss.

That’s because while LSU was dominating the draft, Ole Miss, a program who just fired their head coach and brought Lane Kiffin back to the SEC, didn’t have a single player selected.

The Rebels were the only team in the conference without a player selected.

(Even Vanderbilt, the program that hasn’t had a winning season since 2013, had a player drafted.)

Not only did Ole Miss have to watch their SEC counterparts have immense success in the draft (63 SEC players were drafted in total, the Big 10 had the next most with 48) without being an active participant, the Rebels also had to watch a coach they fired have the most success.

Nearly every program in the country would love to have Ed Orgeron leading their program right now. He was the Eddie Robinson coach of the year for a reason.

Ole Miss, however, had Orgeron at one point. And they sent him packing in 2007.

Of course, at the time, it was an easy decision. Coach O only won 10 games in three years in Oxford. He obviously wasn’t the coach then that he is today.

But it still has to be incredibly tough for Ole Miss — a program in transition — to watch a coach they fired have the success that he’s had over the last few months.

(Though let’s be honest, Coach O wouldn’t change a thing about how his time at Ole Miss ended. It led him to where he is today in Baton Rouge.)

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No one has it better than Orgeron and LSU right now. And that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.

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