☕ Morning Coffee
Fourteen. Fourteen. Fourteen. Six.
Those are Ole Miss’s missed tackles in its last four games, per Pro Football Focus: Charlotte, LSU, Florida, and then Saturday in Nashville. That is the number underneath Ole Miss 52, Vanderbilt 17, and it is the one that matters more than the scoreboard.
Pete Golding said there wasn’t one new call in the game plan. Ole Miss just got aggressive. The pass rush went from six pressures at Florida to 19 with three sacks. The defense forced four turnovers. And on today’s LOOM Flagship, Steven makes the case that this team is exactly what we thought it was in August, and that if Florida was what it took, Florida was worth it.
🏈 The Numbers
| Ole Miss | Vanderbilt | |
|---|---|---|
| Final | 52 | 17 |
| By quarter | 14 · 28 · 0 · 10 | 3 · 0 · 7 · 7 |
| Total yards | 409 | 343 |
| Rushing | 196 | 103 |
| Passing | 213 | 240 |
| Turnovers forced | 4 | 1 |
| Time of possession | 26:04 | 33:56 |
- Trinidad Chambliss: 20-of-30, 213 yards, three touchdown passes and an interception, plus a 10-yard rushing touchdown. A touchdown pass in 18 straight games, one shy of Matt Corral’s 19.
- Blake Purchase: two sacks, three tackles for loss and a forced fumble.
- Suntarine Perkins: scooped Purchase’s forced fumble and returned it five yards for the first touchdown of his career.
- Makhi Frazier: 13 carries, 73 yards. Kewan Lacy came back and scored from two yards out.
- Antonio Kite (his first interception as a Rebel) and Nick Cull picked off passes.
- Jamarious Brown, a defensive tackle, caught a two-yard touchdown pass.
The PFF numbers: 19 pressures, three sacks, four quarterback hits and six missed tackles on 77 defensive snaps. Full breakdown: Snap Count Depth Chart: Six Missed Tackles, After Three Straight Weeks Of 14.
🏆 In the Polls
| AP rank | SEC team | Record | Last week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia | 6-0 | 2 |
| 6 | Alabama | 5-1 | 6 |
| 7 | Texas | 4-1 | 1 |
| 9 | Ole Miss | 4-1 | 9 |
| 13 | Missouri | 5-1 | 14 |
| 14 | Tennessee | 5-1 | 15 |
| 15 | Kentucky | 5-1 | NR |
| 16 | Mississippi State | 4-1 | 17 |
| 22 | LSU | 4-2 | 10 |
Ole Miss held at No. 9. Texas fell from No. 1 to No. 7 after losing 27-24 to Oklahoma, which is still unranked. Georgia took over No. 1 after winning at Alabama. And this week’s opponent, Missouri, moved up a spot to No. 13.
🎙️ What They Said
There wasn’t one new call that we put in for this game that wasn’t already a part of the system.
Pete Golding
Second half, struggled again. I feel like we were just sluggish and just kind of in a lull a little bit. And we got to fix that, because that’s not the standard.
Trinidad Chambliss
What’s crazy is we made a celebration like five minutes before we did it.
Jamarious Brown, on his touchdown
It was close. I was like, oh man, I hope they don’t take the touchdown back, my only one.
Suntarine Perkins, on the replay review
All four postgame press conferences are on the Hub:
- Pete Golding After 52-17: “There Wasn’t One New Call”
- Trinidad Chambliss After Vanderbilt: “Second Half, Struggled Again”
- Jamarious Brown Scored a Touchdown With a Celebration Five Minutes Old
- Suntarine Perkins’ First College Touchdown Survived a Review
🔮 Next: No. 13 Missouri
Missouri comes to Vaught-Hemingway on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 2:30 p.m. CT / 3:30 p.m. ET. The Tigers are 5-1 after beating Florida 45-17 and Texas A&M 27-6. Against A&M, Jamal Roberts ran 34 times for 222 yards and two touchdowns. That is the run game this defense has to stop, and former Ole Miss quarterback Austin Simmons is on the other sideline.
Here is the measuring stick: Missouri beat Florida by 28. Florida beat Ole Miss by 24.
The number: as of Sunday morning, FanDuel had Ole Miss -6.5 with a 59.5 total. 21+ and present in select states. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER.
📻 The Weekend on Locked On Ole Miss
| Saturday morning | Game day with Kevin Rogers of Locked On Bets |
| Saturday pregame | Live with Mike Huesmann and Corey Burton of Locked On Vandy |
| Saturday night | The instant overreaction, live after the final whistle |
| Sunday | The Sunday Reaction: two full segments built on your comments |
| Today | LOOM Flagship: what we learned in the 52-17 win, why Florida was worth it, and every SEC Week 7 line |
🔗 Five Clicks
1. The official recap
Ole Miss Athletics on the 28-point second quarter and the four takeaways.
2. The view from the other sideline
Vanderbilt’s own account of how it fell to 3-3.
3. The new AP Top 25
Georgia to No. 1, Texas to No. 7, Ole Miss holds at No. 9.
4. Oklahoma stuns No. 1 Texas
The 27-24 upset that changes the shape of Ole Miss’s trip to Austin on Oct. 24.
5. Meet Missouri
The Tigers’ 27-6 win over Texas A&M, and 222 rushing yards from Jamal Roberts.
💬 Join the Everydayers
The Missouri game thread is open in the LOOM Private Discord, free to join. Purchase or Perkins: who was the bigger difference maker Saturday? Make your case.
Everything else lives at olemisshub.com, and if you want the show ad-free plus the members-only room, take your fandom to the next level with the Everydayer Club.
Missouri week. Hotty Toddy. 🦈
