Georgia comes to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on Saturday night with 26 sacks in eight games, more than the 20 it managed all of last season. Ole Miss has not allowed a sack in three games. The Rebels have won two of the last three meetings, the most recent of them a Sugar Bowl won in the run game.
Locked On Ole Miss host Steven Willis said the key is not a statistic but an assignment. Georgia intends to spy Trinidad Chambliss with an inside linebacker, and Willis argued that a spy is a trade, not an answer: Ole Miss ran it against Georgia a year ago and paid for it. When the spy chased the quarterback, the middle of the field emptied behind him.
That is where Dae’Quan Wright and Caleb Odom had their big day, Willis said, which is why he called it pick-your-poison. A defense can let the quarterback scramble or keep a man over the top, not both. Auburn chose wrong, Willis said, sitting in two-man coverage while Chambliss walked untouched into the end zone.
The counter-blueprint belongs to Texas, whose defensive coordinator spent years on Georgia’s staff and played a three-deep cloud look that erased explosive plays and dared Ole Miss to run. Ole Miss could not. The difference now, Willis said, is that the Rebels will take 17 plays to walk the length of the field rather than force a throw.
Willis predicted Ole Miss 27-21, a game finishing in the twenties with the Rebels running just enough to let Chambliss decide it. The visiting Locked On host, who worked on Georgia’s staff under a previous head coach, took Georgia 34-31 and said the Bulldogs wear Ole Miss down late at the line of scrimmage. Both landed on the same loser: the team that cannot stop the run.
Photo: Caleb Odom, October 31, 2026, at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Petre Thomas-Imagn Images.
Adapted from the November 5, 2026 episode of Locked On Ole Miss, hosted by Steven Willis, part of the Locked On Podcast Network. Watch the full episode.