Danny Kanell reacts to Kentucky upsetting Ole Miss with a spicy take

no. 6 Oh miss fell to Kentucky home on Saturday, immediately turning on the takeover machine as pundits rushed to give their thoughts on the day’s early result.

Commentator Danny Kanell it had a particularly spicy take.

“Blowing up a bunch of nobody doesn’t make you a national title contender,” Kanell wrote on Twitter. “Ole Miss has been exposed.”

Ole Miss has certainly beaten its slate of opponents this season. The Rebels entered Saturday’s contest against the Wildcats with the nation’s top rushing offense averaging about 670 yards per game.

Kentucky was able to hold Ole Miss to just 353 rushing yards Lane Kiffinhis offense and throwing it around for most of the afternoon.

Of course, Saturday’s result may not come as a huge surprise to Kiffin. He himself notes that participation in the contest he didn’t think Ole Miss had been properly prepared for SEC play.

And while Kentucky hasn’t exactly been a master of the SEC, it has shown it can hang with some of the league’s elite teams, highlighted by a narrow 13-12 loss to Georgia in the weeks prior.

“I’m a realist,” Kiffin said. “I don’t think our opponents really prepared us for SEC play. My hope is our practice and our fall camp has prepared us because we are playing against some very good players on both sides of the ball. Defensively, we play against very big referees. The same and vice versa.

“The program is what it is. I hope our practice has, because our practice is similar to what we face.”

Now, we’ll have to wait and see how far Ole Miss falls in the national rankings after the big upset.

Ole Miss maintains its playoff hopes despite the loss and could still achieve them thanks to the expanded field in 2024, with the format changing to a 12-team playoff.

Still, it was a stinging loss. And not much can be said at this point to dispel Kanell’s claim.