SERIES INFORMATION
• This game marked the second meeting between Ole Miss and Louisville, with the other also being a season-opening, neutral site game in 2021 (Ole Miss W, 43-24; Atlanta, Ga.)
CAPTAINS
• Will Echoles (DL), Horatio Fields (WR), Patrick Kutas (OL), Keaton Thomas (LB)
STARTERS
• A total of 12 Rebels made their first career start at Ole Miss, TE Caleb Odom, WR Johntay Cook II, WR Deuce Alexander, LT Terez Davis, RT Tommy Kinsler IV, DT Jamarious Brown, DE Blake Purchase, MLB Keaton Thomas, MLB Luke Ferrelli, NB Edwin Joseph, FS Joenel Aguero, SS Anthony Robinson II
• Of those 12, three made their first overall career starts: Alexander, Brown, and Robinson
GENERAL NOTES
• Attendance for today’s game was 57,390
• Ole Miss is now 98-29-5 (.764) in season openers and have taken 25 of the last 30 on the field.
• Ole Miss is now 76-18 (.808) versus non-conference opponents dating back to a 38-0 win over Tulane on Nov. 12, 1994.
• Under head coach Pete Golding, Ole Miss is now 2-1 against non-conference opponents.
OFFENSIVE NOTES
• Trinidad Chambliss finished with three passing touchdowns on the day, his third career game hitting that mark after throwing for three scores against The Citadel and four at Mississippi State in 2025.
• Chambliss finished today with 336 yards through the air for his ninth career 300-yard passing game, ranking him seventh in school history just behind Eli Manning’s 10.
• Chambliss has now thrown and rushed for a touchdown in the same game six times during his career.
• Lacy’s rushing touchdown in the second quarter tied him with Archie Manning for the fifth-most career ground scores at Ole Miss with 25.
• Lacy’s touchdown also tied him for the seventh-most all-purpose touchdowns in school history at 25, and the 20th-most points scored with 150.
• Deuce Alexander’s 62-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter was the second-longest of his Ole Miss career, after his school-record 88-yarder last season against Mississippi State. He followed that up with yet another 62-yarder late in the third again.
• Alexander’s 159 receiving yards marks his first 100-yard game of his collegiate career, topping his previous best of 94 yards twice in 2025.
• TE Caleb Odom recorded a career high 66 yards on three catches, with one touchdown
• The Ole Miss offense turned it on in the second half, scoring 31 points in the second half of action with Chambliss accounting for all four touchdowns.
• Traylon Ray hauled in a 31-yard reception for his first career catch.
DEFENSIVE NOTES
• In on a sack midway through the second quarter, Suntarine Perkins now has 19.0 for his career, tying him with Cedric Johnson for the fifth-most in school history.
• Perkins 1.5 TFL’s gives him 33.5 which ties him for fifth all-time in career TFL in Ole Miss history with Sam Williams.
• DE Kam Franklin played excellent on the defensive line, recording two TFLs including one sack.
• Transfer LB Luke Ferrelli recorded a sack in his Ole Miss debut, late in the fourth quarter.
SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES
• Lucas Carneiro picked up where he left off a season ago, drilling a game winning 48 yard field goal with no time left.
• With 11 points today, K Lucas Carneiro now has 160 total points scored at Ole Miss, moving him up to 14h in school history.
• P Oscar Bird was called on to punt three times and totaled 130 yard with a 43.3 avg, including a long of 49.