Georgia snaps Ole Miss’ 16-game home winning streak
Georgia’s win over Ole Miss snapped the Rebels’ 16-game home winning streak, their first loss at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium since falling to Kentucky in 2024. The loss also ended Ole Miss’ three-game home winning streak against Georgia.
The game was the 51st meeting between the programs. Georgia leads the all-time series 35-15-1 and holds an 11-7 advantage in games played in Oxford. Ole Miss is 38-4 at Vaught-Hemingway since the start of 2021.
Trinidad Chambliss passed for 170 yards and moved into seventh place in Ole Miss history with 6,296 career passing yards, passing Kent Austin. His 18 completions brought his career total at Ole Miss to 501, moving him past Romaro Miller for seventh. Chambliss’ streaks of 14 consecutive games with at least 20 completions and 21 straight games with a passing touchdown ended.
Horatio Fields led Ole Miss with career highs of eight catches and 96 receiving yards. Shekai Mills-Knight ran for a fourth-quarter touchdown, scoring on the ground in consecutive games for the first time in his career.
Will Echoles recorded a second-quarter sack, the eighth of his Ole Miss career, and broke up a pass in the third quarter. Suntarine Perkins added a tackle for loss, giving him 39.0 for his career, 0.5 behind Greg Hardy for third in program history.
Joenel Aguero, Kam Franklin and Antonio Kite each made six tackles. Aguero had a career-high five solo tackles, while Franklin matched his career best with four. Jayden Curtis recorded a career-high two tackles.
Attendance was 68,814, the second-highest total in Ole Miss program history. Pete Golding’s career record moved to 8-4 overall and 4-3 in the SEC. The source noted that Golding had coached against nine ranked teams in his first 12 games leading the Rebels.
Oscar Bird recorded the sixth game of his career with multiple punts downed inside an opponent’s 20-yard line. Lucas Carneiro’s fourth-quarter extra point tied him with Bryan Owen for seventh in Ole Miss history, with 92.
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