November has arrived, and Georgia’s final month of the season opens with a road trip to No. 12 Ole Miss in a matchup Bulldogs fans have been waiting on since January 1.
The Rebels got the better of Georgia in last year’s Sugar Bowl, and Kirby Smart’s team now gets a shot at payback in Oxford. The biggest obstacle in the way is Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, who gave Georgia problems in New Orleans last season and now heads into this one as the centerpiece of the Rebel offense.
Smart made it clear this week that stopping Chambliss is no small assignment.
“He had some wow plays against us last year, really, in both games, but especially the second,” Smart told reporters this week about Chambliss. “It's the down-in, down-out decision making that he's really elite at.
The accuracy that he's elite at, the release, the decision. His pinpointing.”
Smart kept going when describing what makes Chambliss so difficult to defend.
“He has an anticipation of windows that's probably unmatched,” Smart added. “I don't know if that was God-given or the fact that he played a lot of football before he got to Ole Miss.
He has played a lot of football and experience helps. You throw all that in, and you have a tremendous athlete.
He goes forwards, backwards as fast as he goes sideways. He can back up and go for it.
He's just a great athlete that is a great quarterback.”
Chambliss brings the kind of mix that can stress a defense in multiple ways. He can extend plays, create outside the pocket, and he has the arm talent to punish mistakes. Even so, the Ole Miss offense has not quite matched last year’s version.
Still, the Rebels are producing at a high level. They rank fourth in the league in scoring offense, fourth in total offense and second in passing offense.
Chambliss has thrown for 2,189 yards and 18 touchdowns, while also leading the league with eight interceptions. He has added just under 200 rushing yards and seven scores on the ground.
Ole Miss has scored at least 27 points in every game this season, and Chambliss has thrown for at least 225 yards in seven of his eight games. He has also been responsible for at least three touchdowns in six of those eight contests.
The 6-foot-0, 205-pound senior will need another big outing if the Rebels are going to pull off the home upset over the No. 2 Bulldogs.
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