Ole Miss is set for a sold-out Saturday night at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, but getting there won’t be business as usual.
The Rebels host Georgia in a 7:30 P.M. ET kickoff on ABC, and with the game drawing massive attention, fans heading to Oxford need to plan ahead. Construction at Jones Hall is changing the normal flow around campus, and OleMissSports.com laid out several traffic updates for anyone coming to the stadium or even traveling near it.
“With construction ongoing at Jones Hall, portions of Grove Loop will be closed to thru traffic on game days. Vehicles entering campus on University Avenue will not be able to turn right onto Grove Loop.
For pickups and drop-offs on the north side of The Grove, fans will enter campus via Jackson Ave. They will travel down Sorority Row, turn left into the pickup/dropoff zone along Grove Loop and then turn left onto Alumni Drive to leave campus via Gertrude Ford Blvd.
The pickup/dropoff zone on Grove Loop will operate in the same fashion as airports. Stops should be brief with no waiting for passengers and no unattended vehicles, and violators will be subject to towing.
University Avenue will remain open as a drop-off location until the road closes approximately four hours prior to kickoff due to pedestrian traffic. Loading and unloading is limited to 15 minutes.”
Those directions matter because the crowd is expected to be a big part of the night. Ole Miss will have more than 65,000 fans behind it, and the atmosphere in Oxford already proved its value a few weeks ago when the Rebels knocked off LSU.
Head coach Pete Golding and Ole Miss are looking for another one of those nights, this time against a Georgia team that arrives with plenty of weight on the line. The Rebels know the challenge is bigger than just quarterback Trinidad Chambliss. The defense and other parts of the team will need to hold up, too.
Still, the home crowd is part of the formula. Ole Miss will be counting on the noise, the pressure, and the energy that comes with a packed stadium. For the Rebels, this is the kind of setting they’ve been waiting for.
Fans who are headed to the game need to follow the traffic guidance closely and get to the stadium on time. Saturday night in Oxford is shaping up to be one of the biggest games on the college football calendar.
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