No. 12 Ole Miss spent the first half feeling its way through a messy game, then turned the lights on after halftime and buried Auburn 45-15 in Oxford.
The Rebels finished with 31 points in the second half, including 21 in the fourth quarter, and the final margin never really reflected how clunky the opening 30 minutes looked. Ole Miss moved to 6-2 overall and 4-2 in SEC play while holding Auburn to just 63 rushing yards.
Trinidad Chambliss was the engine for the Rebels all night. He wasn’t spotless, but he did more than enough, completing 22 of 34 passes for 263 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.
He also added 65 yards on the ground and scored once himself. By the end, the game had gotten comfortable enough for backup quarterback Deuce Knight to finish it off with a 17-yard scramble for the final touchdown against his former team.
The first half had all the feel of a game that didn’t want to settle into a rhythm. Ole Miss went to the locker room with a 14-9 lead, Auburn had an extra point blocked, and both teams gave the ball away in a sloppy stretch that had the whole thing drifting into odd territory.
Auburn did make it interesting for a moment after halftime. Byrum Brown punched in a third-quarter touchdown run to trim the Ole Miss lead to 17-15.
That was as close as it got. Chambliss answered with a 26-yard touchdown run to push the Rebels back ahead 24-15, and from there Ole Miss kept stacking scores.
The Rebels didn’t need Kewan Lacy, either. Even without the injured back, Ole Miss still ran for 224 yards and controlled the game on the ground once it found its footing.
On the outside, Caleb Cunningham and Horatio Fields each caught touchdown passes. Fields led the team with 73 receiving yards on six catches. Defensively, Ole Miss finished with four sacks, with Tah’j Butler and Suntarine Perkins accounting for two apiece.
Auburn’s third-down work was better early than late, starting 4-for-5 before finishing 7-for-14. That number still wasn’t enough to keep pace once Ole Miss found its rhythm and kept pulling away.
Now the Rebels turn quickly to a much bigger stage. Georgia comes to Oxford next in a prime-time kickoff, and Ole Miss will be trying to protect its 16-game home winning streak.
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