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Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze isn't backing down against criticism of his program's involvement in NCAA violations.

In a press conference Tuesday that came after the Rebels self-imposed a bowl ban for 2017 last week, Freeze took aim at Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy for comments about their Sugar Bowl meeting the 2015 season.

"Maybe we can meet in another Sugar Bowl and see how that goes," Freeze said of his team's 48-20 victory

Gundy last weekend expressed disappointment in having to play the Rebels during at a time when NCAA violations had occurred.

“We’ll never know what we could have done in the Sugar Bowl if it was a level playing field,” Gundy was quoted in the Tulsa World. “That is the truth. I’m not sure we would have won the Sugar Bowl, but we’ll never know.

"We didn’t all play by the same rules. If everybody is playing by the rules and you get your butt kicked, that’s OK. I can live with that. But when it’s an uneven playing field, that’s not fair.”

Weeks after the game, it became public Mississippi was under investigation by the NCAA.

The notice of allegations issued by the NCAA last week cited 21 violations by the Ole Miss football program, including several considered Level I, the most serious classification by the rules committee.