Ole Miss takes lead over Tulane just 59 seconds into Playoff game
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Ole Miss needed 3 plays and 59 seconds to electrify its home crowd in Oxford and take a 7-0 lead in its first-round College Football Playoff game against Tulane.
The Rebels received the opening kickoff and immediately went to work. First, quarterback Trinidad Chambliss fired 30-yard and 25-yard completions to get Ole Miss down to the Green Wave 20-yard line before the home fans had a chance to sit down.
Then, whatever home fans had sat down were standing up again and going crazy as Kewan Lacy darted up the middle untouched on a 20-yard scoring run to give the Rebels the really, really early jump in this Playoff battle.
The Ole Miss party had gotten started early, as the Rebels football social media account proclaimed after the touchdown:
The Ole Miss social media account paid homage to the quick touchdown with this post:
The Rebels were off and running in a big way, and not too long after it would become 14-0 on a 4-yard Chambliss scoring run, as the quarterback and running back took turns turning their home stadium into bedlam.
It was only halfway through the 1st quarter and Ole Miss was already showing that life after Lane Kiffin wasn’t so bad, after all. There was a lot of game to go, but the Rebels were already pointed toward a spot in the quarterfinal on New Year’s Day.
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.
