Ole Miss star QB Trinidad Chambliss files suit for injunction against NCAA, per report
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Ole Miss standout quarterback Trinidad Chambliss isn’t giving up in his pursuit of another season of eligibility.
With his waiver request to play another year in college and at Ole Miss being denied last week, Chambliss’s lawyers have officially filed suit in Mississippi state court seeking an injunction against the NCAA. According to a report late Friday afternoon by ESPN college football insider Pete Thamel, the suit was filed in the Chancery Court of Lafayette County in Oxford.
Chancery courts are the only ones that have the authorization to grant injunctions in the state of Mississippi, according to Thamel’s report.
Chambliss led Ole Miss to one of its greatest seasons in program history in 2025. He helped the Rebels advance all the way to the College Football Playoff semifinals, where they lost to Miami on Jan. 8. The very next day, the NCAA denied Chambliss in his attempt to gain another season of eligibility, after Chambliss and Ole Miss had filed a “clock extension” request for a sixth season of college eligibility months earlier.
But exactly a week later, Chambliss has reportedly continued his fight for another season.
The lawsuit that was filed on Friday called the NCAA’s rejection of Chambliss gaining another year of eligibility in “bad-faith, unreasonable and arbitrary.” The suit also went into detail about Chambliss’s illness history and had letters from physicians for validation.
The suit filed for an injunction on Friday served as an expected step that one of Chambliss’s lawyers, Tom Mars, revealed to ESPN would be coming soon.
Now, Chambliss and his lawyers start waiting, yet again, as does the Ole Miss football program.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
