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College Football Playoff picks: Ole Miss is last hope for SEC to reach first title game in 3 years

Story byERIC OLSONTue, January 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM UTC·3 min readNo pressure, Mississippi, but the Southeastern Conference hasn't gone three years without a football national championship since the turn of the century. The sixth-seeded Rebels are the SEC's last hope in the College Football Playoff after Georgia and Alabama lost in the quarterfinals. They will play for a spot in the national championship game when they meet No. 10 seed Miami at the Fiesta Bowl on Thursday.

College Football Playoff picks: Ole Miss is last hope for SEC to reach first title game in 3 years

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Key Highlights

  • AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBig Ten teams won the last two national titles — 2023 Michigan and 2024 Ohio State — and with No.
  • 1 Indiana matched against No.
  • 5 Oregon in the Peach Bowl on Friday, the conference is assured of being represented in the championship game again. The last SEC team to play for it all was Georgia, which hammered TCU 65-7 in 2022 for its second straight title and the conference's fourth in a row. The “It Just Means More” conference hasn't gone three years without a title since a four-year stretch from 1999-2002. LSU won the Bowl Championship Series title game in 2003 but shared the title with Southern California.
  • From 2006-22, the SEC won 13 of 17 championships and had at least one team in the title game all but one year. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe picks, with seedings and lines from BetMGM Sportsbook:No.
  • 6 Mississippi (plus 3 1/2) vs.
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