Kirby Smart knows exactly where the danger starts when Georgia heads to Oxford in Week 10: Trinidad Chambliss.
The Ole Miss quarterback is the centerpiece of what the Bulldogs will have to solve Saturday night, and Smart didn’t hold back when describing what makes him so difficult to defend. The Georgia coach pointed first to Chambliss’ feel for the game, then to the precision that comes with it.
“It’s the down-in, down-out decision-making that he’s really elite at, the accuracy that he’s elite at,” Smart told reporters on Monday. “The release, the decision.
He’s just pinpoint. He has an anticipation of windows that’s probably unmatched.
I don’t know if that’s 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’ve got a tremendous athlete. He goes forwards, backwards as fast as he goes sideways.
He’s just a great athlete that is a great quarterback.”
That’s the profile Georgia is dealing with: a quarterback who can process quickly, place the ball precisely and move like a problem in every direction. Chambliss already showed what that can look like in last year’s CFP matchup, when Ole Miss beat Georgia behind a 362-yard, 2-touchdown performance. He helped the Rebels erase a 9-point second-half deficit in that game.
This trip to Georgia comes with a lot on the line for Ole Miss. The Rebels are in a spot where they likely need to run the table to feel comfortable about their CFP chances, and this is their final game against a ranked opponent. That makes Saturday a major test for Smart and his staff.
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
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