Ole Miss quarterbacks coach Joe Judge was complimentary of Austin Simmons for how he's handled getting benched for Trinidad Chambliss.

With Kiffin gone, the pressure is now on Golding to lift Ole Miss in the CFP. What can Rebels fans expect? "He's a lot different than his predecessor."

Before Pete Golding, there was Steve Fisher, who led the Michigan basketball team to the 1989 national championship as an interim head coach.

But the Rebels missed the Playoff, losing that Kentucky game and two others en route to a somewhat disappointing 9-3 regular season. With so much talent from that team gone, this season was expected to be a reset. Instead, Ole Miss went 11-1, with the only loss by 8 points at Georgia in mid-October.

As Pete Golding prepares to make his head-coaching debut for Ole Miss in a high-stakes College Football Playoff game, he’s pushing the message that the Rebels are “focused on the mission, not the man.

Lane Kiffin might have moved on now that he is at LSU, but the people he left in Oxford at Ole Miss won't forget as easily.

With Lane Kiffin going from Oxford to Baton Rouge, LSU interim coach Frank Wilson will be going the other way. New Ole Miss coach Pete Golding is expected hire Wilson as an assistant coach, sources tell CBS Sports' Matt Zenitz and Chris Hummer.

The Tulane football teams enters its first ever College Football Playoff (CFP) game this Saturday as the 11th seed. The Green Wave will be in Oxford to take o