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UGA more than next game for Rebels
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layers and coaches are notorious for their narrow focus, the necessity to hone in on this week’s game and this week’s game only. At least that’s what they tell us. It’s not entirely true. Even when Ole Miss was busy preparing for Florida State in fall camp, the Rebels took some time to start working on the triple option it saw from Wofford in Week 2. And you can bet the Rebels had an eye toward the massive two-game start to their Southeastern Conference schedule that began with last week’s loss to No. 1 Alabama and will continue with another top-25 tussle with No. 12 Georgia on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium (11 a.m., ESPN).
But there may not be a team in America that has to take the weekby-week approach more literally now DAVIS POTTER than the Rebels. The September gauntlet has gotten the best of the Rebels so far. Hugh Freeze knew a 1-2 record after three games was possible considering the stiff competition, but it doesn’t change the reality that all those championship aspirations that so many players talked about leading up to the season are already on life support. It’s why Saturday is a virtual must-win for Ole Miss. It’s still going to be an uphill climb all season with Alabama,
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a team that’s lost all of two regular-season games since the 2014 season started, in the driver’s seat in the SEC West with no signs of slowing down, but Ole Miss keeps its collective head above water with a victory over the Bulldogs before getting a winnable game against Memphis the next week followed by a week off to catch its breath and work on the things — a running game that’s looking as feeble as usual under Freeze, ball security and third-down defense to name a few — that have to be significantly better if it’s serious about, to borrow a phrase from Freeze, staying in the fight in its league in the second half of the season. SEE POTTER, 14
GEORGIA AT OLE MISS Rank: 11 coaches, 12 AP Record: 3-0 (1-0 SEC)
Rank: 21 coaches, 23 AP Record: 1-2 (0-1 SEC)
All-time series: Georgia leads 32-12-1 and has won 10 straight in the series dating back to 1997. Where: Vaught-Hemingway Stadium When: Saturday, 11 a.m. TV: ESPN Radio: Ole Miss Radio Network (105.1 FM)
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 3 — Ole Miss getting more of the same from UGA Page 4 — Know Your Opponent: Georgia Page 5 — Rosters Page 6 — Lookback: 1995 Georgia Page 7 — Mageo still learning, adapting to defense Page 8 — Pellerin biding time behind Kelly Page 9 — Engram getting in offense’s rhythm early Page 10 — Webb waiting out budding recruitment Page 12 — SEC Notebook Page 16 — Info to know about tailgating at the Grove
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Ole Miss will see more of the same from Bulldogs BY DAVIS POTTER davis.potter@oxfordeagle.com
Ole Miss has squandered 20-plus point leads in its first two losses, and not much will change this week. At least not when it comes to what the Rebels will see from their opponent. No. 23 Ole Miss (1-2, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) is still looking for its first win over an FBS team following another big lead gone awry last week in a 48-43 loss to No. 1 Alabama — a game Ole Miss led 24-3 with less than 3 minutes left in the first half. It was eerily similar to the 22-point lead the Rebels watched dissipate against Florida State nearly two weeks earlier, and things don’t get any easier for Ole Miss in its daunting September with No. 12 Georgia visiting Vaught-Hemingway Stadium
on Saturday (11 a.m., ESPN). “It is going to be another great challenge for us,” Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. “We knew September was going to be this way, and it is time for us to get back out and find a way to finish a game.” Like Florida State and Alabama, Georgia (3-0, 1-0) will throw a freshman quarterback at the Rebels in Jacob Eason, who broke into the starting lineup two games ago and tossed the winning touchdown in the Bulldogs’ 28-27 win last week at Missouri. “He’s got a big arm, he has all the tools and now he’s played on the road, which will be an advantage for him,” Freeze said. “That’s why we need our crowd to be really special Saturday morning at 11 a.m. to try to make things as difficult on him as we can.”
Ole Miss will also see a strong running game from the Bulldogs, which have a healthy Nick Chubb. Last season’s gruesome knee injury looks like a thing of the past for Chubb, whose 365 yards through three games trail only Vanderbilt’s Ralph Webb for the SEC lead. The junior running back will be another test for an Ole Miss defense that’s struggled to stop anything on the ground. Ole Miss is next to last in the SEC in run defense (242.7 yards per game) with Alabama’s 334 rushing yards last week being the most the Rebels have allowed in four years. “They’re going to be a tough run team to stop,” defensive tackle Issac Gross said. “They throw the ball, too. I see more of a play-action team. They’re going to pound the ball.” SEE SAME, 13
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Ole Miss will see another stout running game from Georgia led by junior Nick Chubb (27), the SEC’s second-leading rusher.
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Head coach: Kirby Smart (first season at Georgia, 3-0; 3-0 overall)
Same but different: This is Ole Miss’ third game against an FBS opponent this season, and it’s the third time the Rebels will see a freshman quarterback. Jacob Eason, a five-star signee, is at the controls of the Bulldogs’ offense and has already delivered in the clutch on the road, capping Georgia’s game-winning drive at Missouri last week with a touchdown pass in the final minutes. Where Florida State’s Deondre Francois and Alabama’s
Georgia’s workhorse of a tailback has looked like his old self this season, starting the year with 222 yards against North Carolina and coming in with 365 on the season, the second-most in the Southeastern Conference. It’s not like the Bulldogs have lightened his workload either as Chubb has carried it 71 times for an average of 5.1 yards a tote. Chubb is one of the best ball carriers in the nation when he’s on, and he’ll pose another challenge for an Ole Miss defense that comes into this game next to last in the SEC in rushing yards allowed per game.
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Results: beat North Carolina 33-24, beat Nicholls 26-24, beat Missouri 28-27 Last meeting: Things looked promising for Ole Miss between the hedges on Nov. 3, 2012 with a 10-0 lead early before Georgia’s superior talent took over. The Bulldogs, ranked No. 6 nationally at the time, used the momentum of four Aaron Murray touchdown passes to score 37 unanswered points for a 37-10 win. Bo Wallace finished 16 of 25 for 187 yards and a 13-yard touchdown to tight end Jamal Mosley, but the Rebels couldn’t do much else against a stout Georgia defense, going 2 of 13 on third down and finishing with just 46 rushing yards on 29 attempts.
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Kirby Smart is the first Georgia coach to start his head coaching career 3-0 since Joel Hunt did it in 1938.
Jalen Hurts were also threats with their legs, Eason is a true pocket passer with a big arm, having already attempted 87 passes. He’s completed 48 of them for 643 yards with five touchdowns and two interceptions. Back to normal: Nick Chubb’s knee injury last season, the one in which he tore virtually every ligament in it against Tennessee, was hard to watch, but it’s hard to tell now that it ever happened.
Worth noting: Kirby Smart’s background is defense, yet the Bulldogs have been average at stopping teams from moving the ball through the air so far. Smart spent the previous nine seasons at Alabama, most of those as Nick Saban’s defensive coordinator. Meanwhile, Hugh Freeze’s team still possesses one of the more dangerous passing attacks in the league, putting up more than 325 yards a game through the air. Georgia is yielding more than 214 passing yards a game and has allowed five passing touchdowns, tied for the second-most surrendered in the SEC. It’s looking like Ole Miss’ offense is going to have to put up a bunch of points in every game to help a defense that’s still feeling its way, and the Rebels should once again have some chances to hit big plays down the field in the passing game.
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Ole Miss uses big plays to upset No. 18 Georgia BY JAKE THOMPSON jake.thompson@oxfordeagle.com
Ole Miss and Georgia do not play very often these days. With the rotating schedule the way it is between divisions, Southeastern Conference Eastern and Western division foes cycle through each other annually. This weekend the Rebels are trying to snap a 10-game losing skid to Georgia that dates back to 1997. The last time Ole Miss defeated the Bulldogs was in 1996. The last time a win occurred over Georgia inside VaughtHemingway Stadium was Sept. 23, 1995. The Rebels used a 18-10 score to defeat No. 18 Georgia in what was viewed as an upset win. Ole Miss was a six-point underdog and with the help of big plays in key moments, The Rebels handed Georgia their first conference loss of the season.
It was head coach Tommy Tuberville’s first year at Ole Miss and the ‘Riverboat Gambler’, as he became known, proved just why that nickname stuck. On the Rebels’ opening drive Tuberville rolled the dice and decided to try a fake field goal on a 4 & 6 at the Georgia 31. Former Oxford High standout Bubba Bonds stood up from the holder position and hit up back Moine Nicholson for an eight-yard gain to keep a drive going. The play was called ‘Blue’ and Bonds knew what that meant when Tuberville called it. “I just said, ‘Yes sir,’ and got the right personnel lined up and we ran went in and ran it,” Bonds said. “It was huge. We had talked all week about setting the tone and getting the crowd into it early.” The drive netted a field goal anyway a few plays later to give Ole Miss the early 3-0
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Turning point Late in the third quarter with Georgia up 7-6, Bulldog running back Hines Ward fumbled the football after a 14-yard gain stalled a drive that was threatening to turn the lead into 14-6. That fumble instead turned into seven points for Ole Miss as quarterback Josh Nelson hit Ta’Boris
Fisher for a 19-yard touchdown pass at the end of the third quarter, giving the Rebels the lead for good. “It was a kind of a moral victory for all Ole Miss fans across the country,” Tuberville said. “We haven’t had a lot of positive things happen to us in a long time. This is a very big positive, and it’s something we can build on.” Time of possession was key for Ole Miss, which held the football for nearly 40 minutes of the 60-minute game. Running back Mark Smith was instrumental in the time advantage as he rushed for 53 yards on 23 carries. Smith came in after starting running back Dou Innocent broke his left hand on a play. “Georgia really kept coming at us,” Smith said. “I took a whole lot of punishment out there. You’ve got to give it to our offensive line. They opened up some seams.”
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Mageo still learning, adapting in middle of Rebels’ defense BY JAKE THOMPSON jake.thompson@oxfordeagle.com
There are quite the number of culture shocks one might have after moving from the Pacific Northwest all the way to the Deep South. Rommel Mageo is adding one more to the list, learning a Southeastern Conference defense. Mageo transferred from Oregon State to Ole Miss back in the summer and made the move from Corvallis, Oregon to Oxford. Once it was announced Mageo would come to Ole Miss to pursue a graduate degree and play for the Rebels in the process, the thought was the defense was getting an experienced player to shore up their linebacker issues that were caused by departures
and lack of depth. Turns out the anticipation had to be tempered as head coach Hugh Freeze made it clear during fall camp that Mageo was not picking up the playbook as quickly as they would like and he may not be starting once the season began. Mageo was going to have to prove he could become the No. 1 Mike linebacker. “So far, so good,” Mageo said of his progression after the Wofford game. “Just slowly getting it.” In the season opener against Florida State, Mageo did not start but he did record three tackles in the Rebels’ loss to the Seminoles. Five days later against Wofford, Mageo got his first start as a Rebel at middle linebacker and had a team-high
eight tackles against the Terriers. “I’m a pretty hard critic on myself, so I think I need to work on everything,” Mageo said. “From assignment, alignment and everything that goes on in the game of football.” Going from a Pac-12 defense to an SEC defense was something that was especially difficult for Mageo to master and still is three weeks into the regular season. Mageo noted during his freshman year the Beavers’ defense was very similar to what Ole Miss defensive coordinator Dave Wommack installs at Ole Miss. But last year under first-year defensive coordinator Kalani Sitake, it was a much opposite scheme at Oregon State. SEE MAGEO, 14
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Graduate transfer Rommel Mageo (8) is learning a new scheme in Ole Miss’ 4-2-5 base defense.
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Biding his time, Pellerin happy with being Kelly’s backup BY JAKE THOMPSON jake.thompson@oxfordeagle.com
Ole Miss quarterback Jason Pellerin (7) took his first collegiate snaps against Wofford.
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With every great quarterback on a team, there is usually a backup that is either happy to be there or looking for somewhere else to go, knowing playing time is going to be sparse. In the case of redshirt freshman Jason Pellerin, he is happy to be playing behind the Southeastern Conference’s most experienced quarterback in Chad Kelly. “I want Chad to start,” Pellerin said. “He’s a great quarterback. Great leader of this team, and I know he’s going to go to the NFL and do great things. I’m learning a lot from that guy. … It’s big shoes to fill, but he’s teaching us a lot.” It is quite the endorsement from Pellerin, who redshirted last season while former Rebel quarterbacks Ryan Buchanan and DeVante Kincade bat-
tled for the backup spot all year long. Buchanan decided to quit football all together and focus on his degree at Ole Miss while Kincade transferred to Grambling State where he is the starting quarterback this year, leaving Pellerin as the most experienced guy in the quarterback room behind Kelly. The New Iberia, Louisiana, native got his first taste of college football against Wofford. Pellerin rushed for 27 yards on six carries and scored his first career touchdown on a 6-yard run against the Terriers. He also was 2 for 3 passing for 23 yards and a touchdown while also throwing his first career interception. With Kelly being a senior, Pellerin knows each snap is valuable this season in terms of experience. SEE PELLERIN, 11
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Engram back in rhythm with Ole Miss’ offense BY DAVIS POTTER davis.potter@oxfordeagle.com
A couple of reasons motivated Evan Engram to return to Ole Miss for his senior season: winning championships and improving his NFL draft stock. The former looks like a longshot while the latter is going according to plan. “Making the decision to come back was the smartest and right thing for him to do,” Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. “Too many kids are making that decision based on outside influences and not on wisdom. I was meeting with some scouts (Monday) morning, and coming back has put him in a good spot.” Engram has put in the work following a season where he got lost in the Rebels’ offense. Chad Kelly has once again found him.
The 6-foot-3, 235-pound tight end has been Kelly’s most popular target, leading the Rebels with 20 catches for 302 yards and two touchdowns, numbers that are already closing in on his 38-catch, 464-yard total all of last season. His 6.7 receptions per game are tops in the Southeastern Conference. The difference? Engram and his coach both credit his work in the offseason to better understand coverages and how defenses are playing him, but Engram insists there’s also a stronger trust factor between he and his quarterback. “(Kelly) wants to trust his receivers, and that’s what we worked on a lot as a core as an offense this offseason,” Engram said. “So I think it has really grown confidence-wise and just showing that we make big plays. SEE ENGRAM, 13
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Ready or not, Jaquan Webb’s recruitment has started. Webb, Oxford’s junior wide receiver, recently picked up his first scholarship offer from the school in his backyard, Ole Miss. Webb attended one of the Rebels’ summer camps with some teammates, participating in individual drills and running the 40-yard dash in 4.48 seconds. That’s when interest in Webb from Ole Miss’ coaches piqued. A couple months later, on Sept. 1, Webb received the news that caught him completely off guard. “(Ole Miss offensive line coach Matt Luke) told me to call him, that he had some good news,” Webb said. “I called
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him, and he told me that they were going to offer me. “I didn’t really know because I never expected that. They were talking to me, but I know colleges talk to a bunch of players. I was surprised and happy all at the same time. I didn’t know what to say.” Perhaps that’s because the extent of Webb’s time as a starter at the varsity level is three games. Better known for his prowess on the track than the football field — he’s the defending Class 5A 200-meter state champion and competed in the National Junior Olympics this summer — Webb was buried on the depth chart as a sophomore behind a trio of all-state receivers, including Ole Miss freshman DK Metcalf. SEE WEBB, 14
JAQUAN WEBB School: Oxford Position: Wide receiver Height: 6-foot-1 Weight: 179 pounds The 411: Speed is something every team wants, and Webb has plenty of it. Ole Miss is the first school to offer Webb a scholarship, but it may be a while until Webb makes any kind of decision about his future as the 200-meter state champion also wants to run track in college.
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PELLERIN: Big-bodied QB gives offense different dimension FROM PAGE 8 “I just have to be patient,” Pellerin said. “That’s everything in life from my perspective. Just got to be patient for it. Everything has its right timing.”
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Isaiah McKenzie (16) is Georgia’s leading receiver with 305 yards and four touchdowns. The junior is also dangerous as a returner, averaging 10 yards per return.
There is not a quarterback battle brewing this season with Kelly the undisputed starter, but next year is a different story. After Pellerin signed with Ole Miss in 2015, the 2016 recruiting class had a few centerpiece players. One of them was highly-touted five-star recruit Shea Patterson. The former IMG Academy and Calvary Baptist standout is expected to be the heir apparent to Kelly and is being groomed as such. The spring could prove to be a cruicial period of Pellerin’s young Ole Miss career. If Patterson does become the first player to start at quarterback that is younger than a junior since Bo Wallace, there will still be a use for Pellerin. He has already shown this season the capability to be a running quarterback when the Rebels enter the opponents’
“With my size and ability to run, I feel when we have five people to block and five people in their box to run against, I feel like adding me to that running game is going to help. With my size, I feel like I can run into a linebacker and take a hit or deliver a hit to them.” Jason Pellerin
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red zone. Pellerin and his 6-foot-4, 230-pound frame are ready to show that he brings something different to the table as well. “With my size and ability to run, I feel when we have five people to block and five people in their box to run against, I feel like adding me to that running game is going to help,” Pellerin said. “With my size, I feel like I can run into a linebacker and take a hit or deliver a hit to them.”
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Gators, Volunteers set to battle for Eastern Division lead BY JAKE THOMPSON jake.thompson@oxfordeagle.com
South Carolina, Missouri, Vanderbilt and Kentucky are not viewed as teams who are going to be challenging for the Southeastern Conference’s Eastern Division title. That leaves three teams in Georgia, Tennessee and Florida as the lone contenders. The race for the East crown will begin to lay a roadway to Atlanta and the SEC Championship on Saturday as two of the three teams will face each other. No. 14 Tennessee hosts No. 19 Florida (2:30 p.m., CBS) and both are 3-0. The Gators have already entered SEC play, dominating Kentucky 45-7 a couple
weeks ago, while Tennessee is breaking the seal on their conference portion of the schedule. “Everything is about preparation, and we have to take care of the small things,” Tennessee coach Butch Jones said. “This will be a great, great test for us playing a very good football team.” Tennessee will have all of their weapons at their disposal, but Florida is having to break in a new quarterback. Luke Del Rio was injured against North Texas last week after a low hit to his knee and will be out of Saturday’s game and the foreseeable future, but the injury is not season-ending. That leaves Florida coach Jim McElwain with three other quar-
terbacks in Austin Appleby, Kyle Trask and Feleipe Franks. He plans on starting the graduate transfer Appleby, but fans can expect to see all three take the field on Saturday. “This is a good chance for Austin to jump in there,” McElwain said. “We’ll get Kyle and Feleipe some reps. Things happen in life, and you just got to figure out what you’re going to do next.”
Shipping up to Boston After two weeks in SEC play, Mississippi State is venturing out of the conference and north for a game against Massachusetts (2:30 p.m., ESPN3). SEE NOTEBOOK, 15
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ENGRAM: Chemistry improving between TE, Kelly FROM PAGE 9
FROM PAGE 3 The defense is a work in progress for Georgia and first-year head coach Kirby Smart, allowing 25 points per game. Ole Miss’ potent passing game should be able to exploit a Bulldog defense allowing more than 214 yards a game through the air, though the Rebels will have to protect the ball better than they have so far. The Rebels, who rank last in the SEC with a minus-5 turnover margin, have coughed it up seven times with quarterback Chad Kelly being responsible for six of them. Two of those resulted in defensive touchdowns for Alabama last week. “We have to make sure every series ends in a kick, whether it’s an extra point, a field goal or a punt,” Kelly said. “I have to take it upon myself to keep putting it in my head to take care of the ball.” Georgia has had Ole Miss’ number in the series as of late with 10 straight wins, though the teams haven’t played since 2012. But with their season at an early
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Linebacker Natrez Patrick (7) leads Georgia with x tackles, but the Bulldogs are allowed more than 214 passing yards per game.
crossroads, the Rebels have more pressing reasons to get this one Saturday. “It’s a game that we have to win for sure,” tight end Evan Engram said. “That’s what’s special about it.”
We’ll make a big play in practice, big plays in camp, plays that we like for him to call and he feels comfortable putting the ball out there for us to go get it. That all comes with repetition, and that comes with confidence.” The explosive plays have been frequent. Engram started the season with a nine-catch, 121-yard performance against Florida State and followed it up with 138 yards on nine catches against Alabama. His touchdown catches have covered 21 and 63 yards. “Just having to step up and make plays. Definitely more action down the field,” Engram said. “Chad, the chemistry’s really good with Chad. I don’t look at it that way, that (my production) has increased. I just go out there, and if my name is called to make a big play, I want to.” Said Kelly, “He’s a heck of an athlete.
He’s a playmaker. He’s aggressive.” Engram is adding to numbers that already had him as Ole Miss’ all-time leader in receptions and receiving yards by a tight end entering this season, but it’s not the stats the senior is worried about. Engram consistently voiced in the offseason the desire to help the Rebels win that elusive SEC title before the NFL comes calling following the Rebels’ 10-win season last fall. Ole Miss no longer controls its own destiny in that attempt, but Engram wants to continue doing what he can to help the Rebels navigate another long and rugged season. “That’s a far cry from where we’re sitting right now,” Engram said. “The most important thing is first of all, that’s not out of the picture. Anything can happen, but we have to focus on winning one week at a time. We have to focus on small things, attention to detail, staying sharp in practice, preparation and winning one week at a time.”
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FROM PAGE 7 “It was a very big defense from the defense we played last year,” Mageo said. “We played a 3-4 system so it was more wait, wait, wait, attack. From my freshman year when I had (defensive coordinator Mark Banker) it was very similar to over here.” Mageo even notices a difference with the Ole Miss defensive front compared to what he was playing behind in Corvallis for four years. “It’s amazing,” Mageo said. “Not to bash those guys at Oregon State, but these D-linemen are amazing.”
FROM PAGE 2 Lose Saturday, and then what? What’s the motivation? Lose Saturday, and outside of a miracle, the Rebels will be out of championship contention before the calendar flips to October. Injuries are already mounting, and with trips to Texas A&M, Arkansas and LSU still looming along with home dates with Auburn and Mississippi State, so could the losses. Lose Saturday, and Ole Miss is likely playing the rest of the season for a bowl game in Florida rather than Nashville, Houston or Charlotte. So yeah, Georgia is the next game on the Rebels’ rugged schedule, but it’s a whole lot more than that. DAVIS POTTER is sports editor of the Oxford EAGLE. Contact him at davis.potter@oxfordeagle.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ DPotterOE.
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Hugh Freeze knew a rocky start was possible with such a daunting September slate, but Ole Miss needs to protect its home field Saturday.
WEBB: Junior WR working to round out speedy game FROM PAGE 10 But Metcalf, Ken Presley and Jimmy Greaser all graduated after last season, leaving the pass-catching duties to a new wave of talent out wide of which Webb is a part. Webb has displayed his big-play ability with four catches for 120 yards and two scores. Webb watched Oxford’s 23-3 loss to Lafayette on Sept. 9 from the sideline with a sprained big toe, but he said he’ll return to action for the Region 1-5A opener at West Point tonight following an open date last week. “I’m just taking it slow and making sure I heal so it won’t be like a long-term injury,” Webb said. The same could be said for the way Webb is approaching his recruitment. The 6-foot-1, 179-pound speedster wants to continue competing in both sports at the next level and still has a couple of years left to see what other potential suitors come his way.
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“It’s just I’ve got to wait now because with I’m going to have offers after my junior year, and I’m going to have track offers, too,” Webb said. “So it’s a bunch I’ve got to look at.” The only thing Webb is looking at now is how to improve his game. Webb said it doesn’t bother him that he’s labeled as a speed guy, but he’s out to prove there’s more to a skill set that’s no longer a secret. “I just try to get better,” Webb said. “Anything I can learn, I try to learn. Anybody that I can get to work with me, I try to get them to help me get better in whatever I’m trying to do.”
The decision to come to Ole Miss was one that Mageo did not even have on his radar when looking at potential places to land. The Rebels were not on a short list of any kind but as is normally the case with any player, out of high school or a transfer, the allure of the SEC took over. “They came out of nowhere,” Mageo said. “I took a look at their schedule and said, ‘You know, I got to go there.’ I based it on the toughness of the schedule.”
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SATURDAY’S SEC SLATE - Kent State at Alabama, 11 a.m. (SECN) - Georgia at Ole Miss, 11 a.m. (ESPN) - Florida at Tennessee, 2:30 p.m. (CBS) - Mississippi St. at UMass, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN3) - Delaware St. at Missouri, 3 p.m. (SECN) - Vanderbilt at Western Kentucky, 3:30 p.m. (CBS Sports Network) - LSU at Auburn, 5 p.m. (ESPN) - South Carolina at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m. (SECN) - Arkansas vs. Texas A&M (at Arlington, Texas), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
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FROM PAGE 12 The Bulldogs (1-2) will play UMass inside Gillette Stadium, the home of the New England Patriots, at Foxboro, Mass. It is the first of a home-and-home series which will see UMass come to Starkville next year. Mississippi State is coming off a 23-20 loss at LSU, which saw the Bulldogs make a run late but fall just short inside Tiger Stadium. “Another tough road challenge,” Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said. “A great opportunity to go play in a NFL stadium, in a great environment. We’re ready to get ourselves back out there and back on the winning track.”
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home win over Texas State. It is the Razorbacks third straight game against a team from Texas. “We’re excited to get into SEC play,” Arkansas coach Bret Bielema said. “Everybody else has been able to do it but us. So, we’re excited about this one.”
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Some information to know about Ole Miss’ campus and the Grove — Campus, the Grove and the Circle will open at 7:30 a.m. each Friday before a home football game and close three hours after the end of the game or at midnight, whichever comes first. All tailgating areas will be cleared from 6:30-7:30 on Friday. — All spaces are first come, first serve with the exception of approved university-sponsored tents. — Tents measuring 12x20 or smaller are permitted while tents requiring stakes are not. If a tent is determined to be too large or is housing unacceptable activities, the owner or vendor will be asked to reduce the size of the tent or it will be removed.
through doors of campus buildings. Only electrical outlets on the exteriors of buildings may be used. — Electrical circuits are not to be overloaded by plugging in multiple extension cords by using splitters or power strips. Circuits that are tripped will not be reset. — No solicitation, including commercial or political advertisement or handouts, is allowed. — Open flame, propane tanks and propane bottles are strictly prohibited.
— Drinking is illegal for anyone under the age of 21. Individuals and tent groups that do not follow alcohol regulations will be subject to removal and/or arrest.
— Amplified sound is prohitited.
— Portable generators with a decibal level of 60db or less are permitted.
— Do not leave valuables unattended. The university is not responsible for tents or items left alone.
— No extension cords will be allowed to run across streets or sidewalks. — No extenstion cords will be allowed to be run or pass through open windows or
— Help keep the Grove and the Circle litter-free by placing all recyclables in designated recycling bins and other trash in proper receptacles.