{"id":839390,"date":"2026-03-28T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/839390\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T17:30:23","slug":"trinidad-chambliss-eligibility-lawsuit-ncaas-appeal-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/839390\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad Chambliss eligibility lawsuit: NCAA’s appeal denied"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mississippi State Supreme Court denied<\/a> the NCAA\u2019s appeal of the Trinidad Chambliss<\/a> eligibility lawsuit. The Ole Miss<\/a> quarterback remains eligible for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Josiah D. Coleman, the presiding justice, issued the ruling Friday. It\u2019s another key legal win for Chambliss, who was seeking to get another year of eligibility after the NCAA denied his waiver. He was granted a preliminary injunction last month, paving the way for him to play for the Rebels this coming season.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter due consideration, we find that the petition should be denied,\u201d Coleman\u2019s order states. \u201cIt is, therefore, ordered that the petition is denied. So ordered.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NCAA filed its appeal March 5, three weeks after Calhoun County Chancery Court judge\u00a0Robert Whitwell\u00a0granted Chambliss\u2019 preliminary injunction. After the filing, Chambliss\u2019 attorney Tom Mars referenced a prior case against the NCAA in a statement<\/a> and said the association would be \u201cspitting chiclets\u201d following the latest appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone remembers when the NCAA famously appealed to the Supreme Court in the Alston case and got their teeth knocked out by Justice Kavanaugh,\u201d Mars said. \u201cI expect the NCAA to be spitting chiclets in this appeal as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the legal saga, though, Chambliss said the situation cost him an opportunity<\/a> to potentially appear on the cover of EA Sports College Football 27. In a March 12 filing, he said earlier this month, as recently as March 6, he was one of three college football players in discussions to appear on the next installment of EA Sports College Football. In fact, his lawyers hinted he might have been the top choice to grace the cover.<\/p>\n

However, according to the filing, EA Sports withdrew from the talks roughly three days later due to potential \u201crisk\u201d that Trinidad Chambliss would not be able to play for Ole Miss in 2026. His attorneys cited the NCAA\u2019s decision to deny Chambliss\u2019 waiver as a reason talks stopped.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn or about March 9, 2026, EA Sports withdrew from negotiations with Trinidad, explaining in a text message that EA Sports\u2019 leadership \u2018just can\u2019t stomach the risk\u2019 that Trinidad may be unable to play college football during the 2026-27 football season,\u201d the filing states. \u201cThe risk, as perceived by EA Sports, arises from the NCAA\u2019s bad faith denial of Ole Miss\u2019s request for an extension of eligibility waiver for Trinidad and from the NCAA\u2019s continued opposition to Trinidad\u2019s eligibility, including filing of the NCAA\u2019s meritless and specious Interlocutory Petition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mississippi State Supreme Court denied the NCAA\u2019s appeal of the Trinidad Chambliss eligibility lawsuit. The Ole Miss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,65393],"class_list":{"0":"post-839390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-trinidad-chambliss-21-forest-hills-northern"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116307992552871850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839390","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=839390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}