Why Trinidad Chambliss & Ole Miss Beat Missouri | Keys To The Game

Every Missouri preview says Ole Miss has to run the ball to win Saturday. That's the wrong line. Missouri allows 78.3 rushing yards a game and 2.4 a carry, per the Ole Miss game notes, so nobody runs on Missouri first. Trinidad Chambliss throws for 287 yards a game, Ole Miss has outscored opponents 109-33 in first halves, and an early lead is the one thing that takes Jamal Roberts out of the game.

Tomorrow, Missouri. Eight days to Texas.

Steven Willis makes the case for why Ole Miss beats No. 13 Missouri: three reasons, the keys to the game, and the players to watch in Trinidad Chambliss, Kewan Lacy and Blake Purchase. Then the betting lines, why this series history is the strangest in the SEC, and Steven's final score.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 Nobody runs on Missouri. Here's why Ole Miss wins

2:23 Reason 1: the RPO game vs. Missouri's linebackers

3:33 Reason 2: Ole Miss passes to run with Trinidad Chambliss

4:42 Reason 3: an early lead takes Jamal Roberts away

6:14 Throw first, lead early, and the SEC Network snub

13:14 Key: win first and second down, no third-and-2

14:53 Players to watch: Chambliss, Lacy and Purchase

17:40 Missouri's identity: the running back assembly line

18:54 The strangest series history in the SEC

22:06 What the betting number leaves out

23:34 Bill Flowers vs. Locked On Mizzou: two final scores

24:04 Steven's final score

📌 THREE THINGS

1. Ole Miss passes to run. Opponents have run 193 times against Missouri for 470 yards and thrown it 203 times. Ole Miss throws for 300.6 yards a game, 15th in FBS, and allows one sack a game, best in the SEC. The RPO game with Caleb Odom goes right behind Missouri linebackers who, per Locked On Mizzou, "come downhill in the running game really hard."

2. Win first and second down. Missouri runs for 181.7 yards a game behind Jamal Roberts. "If Missouri sits at 3rd and 2 all afternoon, Jamal Roberts just kind of eats. Make it 3rd and 8, and now Austin Simmons has to throw into Pete Golding's disguises." And Ole Miss can't repeat the 11 penalties it had at Vanderbilt.

3. The players to watch are chasing history. Chambliss has a touchdown pass in 18 straight games, one shy of Matt Corral, and is 40 yards from passing John Fourcade, "a major friend of this program." Kewan Lacy has a rushing touchdown in 13 straight games played, the longest by a Rebel since records began in 1956. Blake Purchase leads the team with 3.5 sacks and 6.5 TFL.

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