Good morning, Everydayers. It’s Monday of Georgia week. Ole Miss beat Auburn 45-15, stayed at No. 12 in the AP poll, and now gets No. 2 Georgia in Oxford Saturday night. Today’s LOOM Flagship has three things from the Auburn win, why a quiet day from Deuce Alexander in a 45-point game matters, and this week’s SEC lines.
☕ Morning Coffee
“Ole Miss got right at exactly the right time.”
That’s Steven’s open on today’s LOOM Flagship. “Now it knows what it takes to beat Georgia. It just has to do it.” Three things from Auburn:
- The ultimate get-right game, at the perfect time. A week after Austin, the first quarter ended 0-0 and Auburn cut it to 17-15 in the third. Then Ole Miss scored the last 28 points. Trinidad Chambliss ran seven times for 65 yards and a 26-yard touchdown after three straight games under 10 rushing yards, and the defense that got gashed late at Texas held Auburn to 63 rushing yards on 27 carries. Ole Miss converted 13 of 16 third downs. It’s the 16th straight home win, which ties the program record. “It walks with its confidence back. They got their swagger back.”
- Shekai Mills-Knight gave Ole Miss exactly what it needed. Kewan Lacy didn’t play, and Ole Miss still ran 49 times for 224 yards and four touchdowns. Mills-Knight ran for a career-high 71 yards, per the postgame press conference, and scored from the 1 before halftime. Ole Miss ran 84 plays, punted once and held the ball for more than 32 minutes. Georgia held Florida to 54 rushing yards Saturday, so nobody runs for 224 on that front. But Ole Miss now knows it can lean on Mills-Knight for 15 to 20 carries and stay balanced.
- Ole Miss showed what it takes to beat Georgia. Now it has to do it. Stop the run: Auburn averaged 2.3 a carry. Protect the quarterback: no sacks allowed. Win third down. Take the ball away: two forced fumbles, a blocked extra point and a stopped two-point try. Georgia beat Florida 27-8 by running for 217 yards and forcing four turnovers, but threw for only 101. The catch: Ole Miss has scored on its opening drive once all season. “Against Georgia at night, you can’t necessarily do that. But the blueprint’s there.”
🏅 LOOM Player of the Week: Trinidad Chambliss
Two touchdown passes, a 26-yard touchdown run and 65 rushing yards, a week after three interceptions in Austin. Chambliss was 9 of 15 for 100 yards and an interception in the first half, then 13 of 19 for 163 yards and two touchdowns after halftime, plus six carries for 65 yards and a score. He has now thrown a touchdown pass in 21 straight games. Chad Kelly’s school record is 22. One touchdown pass Saturday night ties it, against Georgia.
More from Chambliss on the Hub: “There was a lot of fog in my mind”.
🏈 A Quiet Deuce Day, And 45 Points
Deuce Alexander is the best receiver on this team, and Saturday wasn’t his day: five catches for 59 yards, no touchdown and a muffed punt that Johntay Cook II had to fall on. Ole Miss scored 45 anyway. Horatio Fields caught six for 73 and a touchdown, Caleb Cunningham caught six for 55 and a touchdown, and Luke Hasz converted a third-and-12 in the fourth quarter. Seven different players scored or kicked a field goal, and the Deuce who found the end zone was backup quarterback Deuce Knight.
Pete Golding saw it the same way. He went and found Alexander in the tunnel after the game and told him what made him happiest was that Ole Miss scored 45 while its best player didn’t. Steven’s line on today’s show is the Georgia half of it: “The depth is the floor. Deuce Alexander is the ceiling of this unit.” Georgia intercepted Florida three times Saturday. Ole Miss probably doesn’t beat that defense with five catches from its No. 1.
The full story on the Hub: What Pete Golding told Deuce Alexander in the tunnel.
🏈 The Numbers
- 28: straight Ole Miss points after Auburn cut it to 17-15
- 13 of 16: Ole Miss on third down
- 63: Auburn rushing yards on 27 carries
- 5: rushing yards for Byrum Brown, who came in with 480
- 224: Ole Miss rushing yards without Kewan Lacy
- 16: straight home wins, tying the program record
- 21: straight games with a touchdown pass for Trinidad Chambliss
🎤 What They Said
That we scored 45 points and I feel like our most explosive and best player didn’t. I said, that makes me feel really good.
Pete Golding, on what he told Deuce Alexander
We’re going to play an elite team this week. And you can’t start slow.
Pete Golding, after the Auburn game
Common opponents do not decide football games. Matchups do.
Steven Willis, on today’s LOOM Flagship
🏥 Injury Watch
| Player | Status |
|---|---|
| Kewan Lacy, RB | Did not play vs. Auburn. Golding said 10/26 it is a dislocated shoulder. No Georgia update yet. |
| Jalyn Crawford, CB | Played four snaps. Golding: hurt his shoulder in Austin, got an injection, “just couldn’t do it efficiently.” |
| Luke Ferrelli, LB | Played 16 snaps. Golding: the ankle stiffened, “so it wasn’t worth the risk.” |
🏆 In the Polls
| Poll | Ole Miss |
|---|---|
| AP | No. 12 (953 points, up 82) |
| Coaches | No. 12 |
Georgia moved up to No. 2 in the AP poll. The first College Football Playoff rankings come out Tuesday night.
📈 The Line
Per FanDuel, logged in our betting sheet Sunday morning, Nov. 1: Georgia -3.5, total 56.5. Moneyline: Georgia -150, Ole Miss +125. Lines move, so check FanDuel for the current number.
A week ago Ole Miss was a 13.5-point favorite against Auburn. This week it’s getting points in its own building, against the team whose only loss came to the Auburn team Ole Miss just beat by 30.
The show reads the market. It does not make picks.
🔮 Next: Georgia
| Matchup | No. 2 Georgia (7-1) at No. 12 Ole Miss (6-2, 4-2 SEC) |
| Kickoff | Saturday, Nov. 7 · 6:30 p.m. CT / 7:30 p.m. ET |
| Where | Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford |
| TV | ABC |
| Last meeting | Ole Miss 39, Georgia 34, Sugar Bowl |
Five days to Georgia. A win would be the 17th straight at home, a new program record.
📻 The Weekend on Locked On Ole Miss
| Saturday | The pregame livestream with Mike Huesmann, Locked On Bets with Kevin Rogers, and the Instant Overreaction after the final |
| Sunday | The Sunday Reaction livestream: second-day thoughts on 45-15 and the first look at Georgia |
| Today | LOOM Flagship: Ole Miss Showed How To Beat Georgia | Trinidad Chambliss Got Right |
| On the Hub | Golding and Deuce Alexander in the tunnel · Shekai Mills-Knight: “I already had that” · Snap Count Depth Chart: 27 pressures · LOOM SEC Power Ratings |
🔗 Five Clicks
1. AP Top 25: Ole Miss remains at No. 12 before No. 2 Georgia (The Rebel Walk)
Where the Rebels landed after the Auburn win, and where every SEC team sits heading into Georgia week.
2. Five numbers that explain Ole Miss football’s blowout win over Auburn (HottyToddy.com)
224 rushing yards, 2.3 per Auburn carry and 13 of 16 on third down.
3. No. 12 Ole Miss overcomes slow start in 45-15 win over Auburn (SuperTalk Mississippi)
The game story, including the 0-0 first quarter that Ole Miss can’t repeat Saturday night.
4. AP Top 25: Georgia climbs to No. 2 (CBS Sports)
The national view of the poll, and of the team coming to Oxford.
5. The LOOM Model calls Georgia at Ole Miss a coin flip (OleMissHub)
The first LOOM SEC Power Ratings: Ole Miss alone at No. 4, and Saturday at Georgia by 0.1.
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Five days to Georgia. Hotty Toddy. 🦈
