The first meeting was electric.
The rematch was better.
Behind a 362-yard passing performance from quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, Ole Miss stormed back in the fourth quarter to beat Georgia, 39-34, and earn a spot in the College Football Playoff semifinals. The win wasn’t just the Rebels’ biggest over Georgia in series history, it was arguably the biggest in program history.
The Bulldogs won the regular-season meeting 43-35 after outscoring the Rebels 17-0 in the fourth quarter. Ole Miss couldn’t unlock the Georgia defense over the final 15 minutes after torching that same unit through the first 3 quarters of the game, and it blew a 9-point lead as a result.
With a remade coaching staff, Ole Miss flipped the script in the sequel on Thursday night, outscoring the Bulldogs 20-10 over the final 15 minutes. Chambliss caught fire in the second half and, more specifically, the fourth quarter. He hit 13 consecutive passes at one point, the last of which went for 13 yards to Harrison Wallace III and put the Rebels up 34-24 midway through the fourth.
Chambliss, who moved into fourth on the Rebels’ all-time single-season passing list, pulled off big play after big play in the quarter. Ole Miss entered the final frame trailing Georgia by 5 points. A 44-yard pass from Chambliss to Wallace set up a 5-yard rushing score from Kewan Lacy with 11:32 to play. A 2-point conversion put the Rebels on top by 3.
On the ensuing possession, Suntarine Perkins blew up a fourth-down play in Georgia territory to give the Rebel offense the ball right back. Chambliss hit back-to-back passes of 10 yards and 13 yards to stretch the Ole Miss lead with 9:02 to play.
Georgia hit right back with a flurry of explosives, scoring a touchdown on an 18-yard pass from Gunner Stockton to Zachariah Branch with 7:08 to play to get within 3. The Dawgs tied the game with a 24-yard field goal from Peyton Woodring with 56 seconds to play.
All that did was set Chambliss up for one final moment of excellence.
On third-and-5 from the Ole Miss 30, with just 32 seconds on the clock, Chambliss hit De’Zhaun Stribling over the top for 40 yards. The play pushed Ole Miss to the Georgia 30-yard line and set up Lucas Carneiro for his third field goal of the game.
He nailed the first 2, from 55 and 56 yards away.
He split the uprights on the final one from 47 yards out, with everything on the line.
lucas carneiro 47 yarder; ole miss vs georgia pic.twitter.com/V0sdEXPBK3
— ◇ (@F0RGIAT0) January 2, 2026Ole Miss will meet Miami in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 8. With 3 of the top 4 seeds in the CFP field now eliminated, and the best season in program history still rolling on, the Rebels are one step closer to a national championship.
Ole Miss 39, Georgia 34
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