Rapid Reaction: Ole Miss trounces Tulane behind another gem from Trinidad Chambliss
By Ethan Stone
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Buy Trinidad Chambliss stock as soon as possible, everyone. It may be too late already – as we speak, the price may be too high.
The Ole Miss quarterback took care of business once again on Saturday, improving to 2-0 as a starter with wins over Arkansas and now the Green Wave. His 419 total yards against Tulane led the way for a 45-10 victory in Week 4. The Rebels are now 4-0 on the season heading into next week’s monster matchup against LSU.
And while Chambliss was amazing, it was a complete effort for a Rebels unit that was placed on upset watch by a few folks around the college football landscape. Tulane had already dispatched 2 Power 4 opponents this season, but they ran into a different beast entirely on Saturday.
This one was never as close as some expected it to be. The Rebels hopped to a 13-0 lead before the Green Wave finally tacked on a field goal in the 2nd half. Ole Miss responded to Tulane’s field goal with a 6-play, 72-yard touchdown drive culminated by a Kewan Lacy rushing touchdown from a yard out – one of 2 he’d score on the afternoon. Lacy totaled 18 rushing attempts for 68 yards and a pair of scores, but he sat behind Chambliss in the rushing department thanks to the quarterback’s 14 carries for 112 yards.
Tulane wasn’t able to do much of anything on offense. Jake Retzlaff was held to just 56 passing yards, and 39 rushing attempts yielded just 178 yards rushing for a usually stout Tulane rushing attack. Retzlaff, just barely, was the only Green Wave rusher to eclipse 50 yards on the evening.
This one was so one-sided that Lane Kiffin took some time to assist a dunk on Ole Miss’s sideline basketball hoop.
Ole Miss 45, Tulane 10
Here’s the Ole Miss-Tulane box score (use the dropdown menu to select team or player stats), followed by the complete play-by-play:
Trinidad Chambliss vs Jake Retzlaff
A statistical breakdown of how Ole Miss’s Trinidad Chambliss outperformed Tulane counterpart Jake Retzlaff:
Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.
