{"id":658596,"date":"2026-01-06T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/658596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:12:15","slug":"kewan-lacy-injury-update-college-football-playoff-availability-report-gives-latest-for-ole-miss-vs-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/658596\/","title":{"rendered":"Kewan Lacy injury update: College Football Playoff availability report gives latest for Ole Miss vs. Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just two games separate the Miami Hurricanes<\/a> and Ole Miss Rebels<\/a> from a national championship. Thursday brings the College Football Playoff<\/a> semifinal, taking place in Glendale, AZ, for another edition of the Fiesta Bowl. While we have already seen this matchup this season, the stakes are at a completely different level.<\/p>\n

Both teams are dealing with some injuries heading into the contest. Monday brought the first injury report, as designated by the College Football Playoff. A few names pop up for Miami and Ole Miss, which you can check out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miami Hurricanes<\/p>\n

OUT<\/p>\n

LB Malik Bryant<\/a>
WR Daylyn Upshaw<\/a><\/p>\n

QUESTIONABLE<\/p>\n

DB Damari Brown<\/a>
DL Cole McConathy II<\/a>
DL Ahmad Moten Sr.<\/a><\/p>\n

PROBABLE<\/p>\n

DB OJ Frederique Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ole Miss Rebels<\/p>\n

OUT<\/p>\n

CB Cedrick Beavers<\/a>
LB Raymond Collins<\/a>
OL John Wayne Oliver<\/a><\/p>\n

QUESTIONABLE<\/p>\n

DL Kam Franklin<\/a><\/p>\n

PROBABLE<\/p>\n

TE Caleb Odom<\/a>
RB Kewan Lacy<\/a>
TE Dae\u2019Quan Wright<\/a>
WR Cayden Lee<\/a>
CB Dante Core<\/a><\/p>\n

Ole Miss will walk into State Farm Stadium as arguably the hottest team remaining in the 12-team field. It\u2019s been an unusual circumstance for the Rebels in recent weeks, not letting any of the outside noise affect their play. Pete Golding<\/a> is now 2-0 in his life as a head coach, taking down Tulane<\/a> in the first round and Georgia<\/a> at the quarterfinal stage, winning the Sugar Bowl.<\/p>\n

Miami has also played in two CFP games due to an at-large bid. A tougher task was handed to them in the first round, going to Kyle Field to upset Texas A&M<\/a>. Ohio State<\/a> was the reward on the other side in Arlington, TX, one Mario Cristobal<\/a> certainly gave a lot of credit to his defense.<\/p>\n

Kickoff from the Fiesta Bowl is scheduled for around 7:30 p.m. ET\/5:30 p.m. local time. Neither team has ever gotten this far in the College Football Playoff era. One more win sends them to Hard Rock Stadium for the national championship on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n

Josh Pate makes Fiesta Bowl prediction between Miami, Ole Miss<\/p>\n

As he normally does, Josh Pate<\/a> provided a prediction for the upcoming Fiesta Bowl. Unlike the Peach Bowl on Friday, this is the first matchup of the year between Miami and Ole Miss. Pate spent time focusing on the two quarterbacks, ultimately giving the edge to UM.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Miami\u2019s going to win the game,\u201d Pate said. \u201cI think they\u2019re going to win it by seven or more. I am diametrically opposed to the model here. Because what I think is going to happen is a little blend of both worlds for Miami. They are going to have a two-way edge on the line of scrimmage. They are going to get theirs on the ground.\u00a0Carson Beck<\/a>\u00a0is going to have a good decision-making type game. Going to be a really hard-hitting type game.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I also don\u2019t think that Trinidad Chambliss<\/a> \u2014 and I\u2019ve just got to go on basic instinct here \u2014 I don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to have a copy\/paste of the magic we saw last game. If we do, and that\u2019s the way they win this game, just like I said about Georgia, you just tip your cap to them. I think that stuff\u2019s really transcendent. I mean I think that\u2019s generational type stuff for a school. And to get two of those performances in a row? I will be proven wrong by it happening, rather than expecting it to happen. So I\u2019m going to take Miami to win. I\u2019m going to take Miami to cover.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just two games separate the Miami Hurricanes and Ole Miss Rebels from a national championship. Thursday brings the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95364,95365,30873,95366,95367,40461,95368,95369,95370,7,95371,95372,35303,95373,49,48,40611,95374],"class_list":["post-658596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-ahmad-moten-22-cardinal-gibbons","tag-caleb-odom-24-carrollton","tag-cayden-lee-23-kennesaw-mountain","tag-cedrick-beavers-22-taylorsville","tag-cole-mcconathy-24-spanish-fort","tag-daequan-wright-22-perry","tag-damari-brown-23-american-heritage","tag-dante-core-25-choctawhatchee","tag-daylyn-upshaw-25-central","tag-football","tag-john-wayne-oliver-24-cpa","tag-kam-franklin-24-lake-cormorant","tag-kewan-lacy-24-lancaster","tag-malik-bryant-23-jones","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-oj-frederique-24-st-thomas-aquinas","tag-raymond-collins-22-harrison-central"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}