Ole Miss needed a big answer after a sluggish start Sunday night in Nashville, and Trinidad Chambliss delivered one in a hurry. The Rebels outlasted Louisville 41-38 in Week 1, riding a monster second half from their quarterback to pull out a game that kept swinging back and forth until the final kick.
Chambliss put together the kind of stat line that jumps off the page: 336 passing yards, three touchdown passes, 60 rushing yards and another score on the ground. His biggest damage came after the break, when he hit Deuce Alexander twice on 62-yard touchdown passes. The second one pushed Ole Miss ahead by eight, but that cushion didn’t last long.
Louisville answered to tie it at 24-24, and the game looked ready to tilt again. Chambliss changed that with another deep strike, finding Caleb Odom for a 35-yard touchdown to put Ole Miss back on top 31-24. Then, with 6:43 left, he finished off another drive himself on the ground to stretch the lead to 38-24.
But Louisville wasn’t done. Trailing by 14, the offense sparked to life with explosive touchdown drives, as Lincoln Kienholz threw for one score and ran for another to knot the game with just over a minute remaining.
That still left time for Chambliss to work his magic one more time. He guided a careful field goal drive and set up Lucas Carneiro for the game-winning 48-yard kick.
For Ole Miss, it’s a major early-season win for a team chasing a return to the College Football Playoff. And after a performance like this, Chambliss can’t help but start to look like a real Heisman Trophy name to watch.
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