A new coffee table book released this Spring captures every dramatic, confusing, frustrating, and inspiring moment of the unprecedented 2025–2026 football season that Ole Miss players, coaches, and fans endured.
The book, A Season to Remember: Talent, Turmoil, Betrayal, Resilience & the Greatest Season in Modern Ole Miss Football (Nautilus, $45), is organized as the subtitle reads. The opening section highlights the underestimated 2025 team’s raw talent (including the emergence of backup quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, who took the college football world by storm). Part two — Turmoil — follows the utter disarray caused by Lane Kiffin’s search for another job while coaching a team that was playoff bound. Part three — Betrayal — covers the 48-hour period between the end of the Egg Bowl — including behind-closed-door meetings and Kiffin’s attempts to dismantle the coaching staff after being told “no” — and the moment the former head coach flew away from Oxford in LSU jets. The final section, Resiliency, highlights Ole Miss’s groundbreaking run in the College Football Playoff.
Neil White, editor of A Season to Remember, said, “We assembled a team of contributors that included Robert Khayat (who wrote the introduction as well as a comparison between the 1959 team and the 2025 team); Rick Cleveland, who wrote candidly about Kiffin; the February NCAA appeal in Pittsboro, Mississippi; and the outlook for newly appointed head coach Pete Golding; Chuck Rounsaville, who covered Ole Miss football for 48 years, created his Ole Miss Mount Rushmore teams; Jeff Roberson, who reported for The Ole Miss Spirit for 30+ years, wrote about the love story among Ole Miss, New Orleans, and the Sugar Bowl; and Sparky Reardon, author of The Dean, who wrote a hilarious essay, “Don’t Let the Door Hit Ya’,” about Ole Miss coach’s leaving the university.
“During the 2025 season,” White continued, “Ole Miss had more fascinating story lines than just about any other team in the 156-history of college football.”
A Season to Remember features photographic essays of each of the Rebels’ 15 games, including expanded coverage of each playoff game. The editorial also includes timelines, media coverage, quotes, and rants (from the likes of Paul Finebaum and Steven A. Smith) about the Ole Miss saga, and full coverage of the courtroom battles between behemoth NCAA and the best underdog story of the year, Trinidad Chambliss.
A Season to Remember is a limited-edition book.
“There will be no second press run,” White said. “When these copies are gone, they’re gone.”
The book is for sale at all independent bookstores in Mississippi and online at https://nautiluspublishing.com/product/a-season-to-remember/.
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Relive the greatest season in modern Ole Miss football with quarterback Trinidad Chambliss and his family at a very special signing event for A Season to Remember.
Come to Off Square Books between noon and 2pm on June 5 and get your copy signed by:
- Trinidad Chambliss
- Cheryl Chambliss
- Trent Chambliss
- Neil White
- Chase Parham
- Sparky Reardon
- Jeff Roberson
- Chuck Rounsaville
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For more information, contact The Nautilus Publishing Company at info@nautiluspublishing.com
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