What to watch for when Rebels, Tigers tangle Saturday from the Vaught

WHAT TO WATCH FOR

• This is the 99th Homecoming game at Ole Miss since 1924 … The Rebels have won 25 of their last 29 on the field.

• This is the ninth meeting all-time between Ole Miss and Missouri and just the third-ever meeting as SEC foes.

• The Tigers hold a 7-1 series lead, with the Rebels’ lone win a 10-0 triumph in 1974.

• This is the first time they will meet in Oxford since 2013 … Mizzou holds a 2-0 advantage in those games.

• Ole Miss is 316-116-8 (.727) all-time at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium before vacated wins (294-113-8), including a 38-3 stretch since the start of the 2021 season.

• Ole Miss enters the week ranked No. 9 in the AP poll and No. 10 in the Coaches poll.

• Ole Miss owns the FBS’s eighth-fastest offense, averaging 23.1 seconds per play.

• The Rebels are one of just five teams nationally that has a 100 percent red zone success rate.

• Missouri will be the seventh time in his first nine career games as head coach that Pete Golding has faced a ranked opponent … Golding is 4-2 in such games.

• RB Trinidad Chambliss needs just 23 passing yards to crack into Ole Miss’ all-time top 10 in career passing yards.

• Chambliss is one of just seven active collegiate quarterbacks with 8,000 career yards passing and 1,000 rushing across all levels of college football.

• RB Kewan Lacy has 29 career rushing TDs, which is third all-time in program history, just two away from tying Brandon Bolden for the No. 2 spot.

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