Ole Miss Answers an Early Field Goal with 31 Straight
Missouri threw for 339 yards and scored 3 points. Hold that thought, because it is the whole story of a 31-3 Ole Miss win. The Tigers moved the ball through the air all day (25 of 44 for Austin Simmons) and had one field goal to show for it, a 27-yarder from Blake Craig that opened the scoring with 8:16 left in the first quarter.
It was the only lead Missouri held. Ole Miss answered when Trinidad Chambliss hit Caleb Odom from 10 yards with 5:42 left in the quarter, and the Rebels kept stacking. Horatio Fields caught a 21-yarder early in the second quarter, Caleb Cunningham added a 17-yarder with 2:13 left in the half, and it was 21-3 at the break. Chambliss ran in a 5-yard score early in the fourth to make it 28-3, and Lucas Carneiro's 38-yard field goal with 3:45 to go closed it out.
The yardage split is the funny part. Ole Miss ran 38 times for 257 yards and threw for only 241, so 498 total to Missouri's 378. Missouri had 39 rushing yards on 26 carries. You cannot win that way, and the Tigers did not. Missouri also threw an interception, while Ole Miss lost one fumble (Kewan Lacy's) and recorded 2 sacks.
Ole Miss moves to 5-1 and Missouri falls to 5-2. For fantasy owners, Chambliss did what he does, and the best Missouri news was all in the receiving column, where Donovan Olugbode piled up yards in a game his team never threatened to win. Garbage time pays too.