Pete Golding and Ole Miss receives backlash from college football fans again after recent contract leaks surfaced the internet.

The Ole Miss Rebels were eliminated from the College Football Playoff after losing to the Miami Hurricanes 31-27 in the Fiesta Bowl. They finished the season going 13-2 and 7-1 in conference matchups.

Pete Golding's parents, Skip and Tena, met at Delta State and are divorced. Skip Golding was a football coach, including at Margaret Green Junior High School in Cleveland, as well as two stints at East Side High School.

Lane Kiffin drops a cryptic post on X just after Ole Miss linebacker TJ Dottery ditches Pete Golding and enters the transfer portal.

Ole Miss is a family affair for Pete Golding. In November 2025, Pete was named the new head football coach of the Ole Miss Rebels, and joined his wife, Carolyn Golding, who is an alumna of the university and now an adjunct faculty member there.

Pete Golding delivers a defiant recruiting message as Ole Miss navigates the CFP, reinforcing why Rebels made the right call naming him HC.

The College Football Playoff run ended for Ole Miss in the semifinal. It wasn’t the national championship ending that fans wanted, but it did give them an opportunity to get on the Pete Golding bus moving into the offseason.

Hats off to Pete Golding, who opened his Ole Miss tenure with back-to-back wins and held a fourth-quarter lead over Miami in the College Football Playoff semifinals. He came up just shy of a trip to the national championship game, though, with a heartbreaking 31-27 Fiesta Bowl loss to the Hurricanes.