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It’s finally over! We won’t have to hear about former Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels any more until, at the very least, December.
LSU spotted Ole Miss 17 points but still made the Rebels work hard coming down the stretch to secure their 32-24 victory over the Tigers on Saturday night.
This was a very intense football game from beginning to end. Those who paid hundreds of dollars for a seat at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford might have received their money’s worth.
LSU’s loss dropped the Tigers to 2-1 on the season.
They trailed Ole Miss (now 3-0) 24-7 at the half. LSU battled back in the second half to tie this game at 24 apiece. That’s when Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss sprinted around left end on a fourth quarter touchdown run to seal the win for the home team in Oxford.
Let’s get our traditional Louisiana red beans and rice ready for Monday dinner. We could use some comfort food while reviewing this past weekend of football in the Bayou State.
Quarterback Trinidad Chambliss led Ole Miss to victory in a game that 49 of the 50 US states were pulling for the Rebels to win
Jubilant Ole Miss fans were busy celebrating the football team’s hard-fought 32-24 win over former head coach Lane Kiffin’s LSU Tigers. As the players hugged each other and high-fived with fans, the stadium public address speakers blared the popular Garth Brooks’ song, “Calling Baton Rouge” in Oxford.
That song is played at every LSU home football game just minutes before the famed Golden Band from Tiger Land Marching Band pregame show. The Garth Brooks tune puts LSU fans into a good mood as they loudly clap and sing along with the popular song named for Bayou State’s capitol city.
Saturday night’s musical rendition played in Oxford, Mississippi after the Rebels’ 8-point win was Ole Miss fans way of saying, “Get on the bus, and enjoy your 340 mile ride back home!”
LSU actually made the trip via charter jet, but it was the thought that counted, right?
Tigers head football coach Lane Kiffin told reporters afterwards that the experience of being hated so intensely by Ole Miss fans in Oxford was a bit surreal.
He said, “I thought that I would probably be more in, like, the competitive mode and just kind of embrace it. Sometimes you can’t predict your emotions. I know that sometimes I don’t act like it, but I’m a human, you know.”
Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss shined again in front of a national television audience to solidify his early lead in the race for this year’s Heisman Trophy.
The likable and very poised young man completed 33 of 48 passes for 363 yards and two touchdowns.
LSU fans may have thought the talented quarterback wearing the light blue Ole Miss uniform had an “S” on the front of his jersey instead the number six.
LSU tried just about everything except to bring Lex Luthor onto the field carrying a large piece of green Kryptonite in a desperate effort to slow down the talented Ole Miss quarterback.
Trindad Chambliss added the winning touchdown for Ole Miss on a 14-yard scamper around left end to break a 24-24 fourth quarter tie with just six minutes left in the game.
Did you know that this 24-year old quarterback is now participating in his sixth season of college football?
Trinidad Chambliss is enjoying a second successful college football career
After his redshirt freshman season at Division II Ferris State University (located an hour north of Grand Rapids, Michigan), Chambliss dealt with recurring respiratory issues during his sophomore year. It prevented him from playing football in Year #2. A tonsillectomy eventually improved his health issues.
Chambliss went on to play the next two seasons at Ferris State and led the Bulldogs to the D-II national championship in 2024.
That’s when then-Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin offered Trinidad Chambliss a scholarship and some NIL loot to come south to play for the Rebels beginning in 2025.
Chambliss started last season on the bench. Ole Miss posted an 11-2 record after he became the team’s starting quarterback. The Rebels (playing without coach Lane Kiffin – who had accepted the head coaching job at LSU) went on to beat Tulane and Georgia before falling 31-27 to Miami in the College Football Playoffs semifinals last year.
Trinidad Chambliss petitioned the NCAA for a rare sixth year of eligibility for this season. He was denied in January. Ole Miss then filed an appeal. The NCAA rejected it, too. That’s when Chambliss and his attorneys sued the NCAA in a Mississippi court in February for the right to play college football again this year.
I guess you can figure out who won.
Chambliss is now at the top of the shopping list for several needy NFL teams next spring in 2027. He is trying to lead the 3-0 Ole Miss Rebels into the College Football Playoffs again. A second national championship win would cap his rather lengthy college football career.
LSU’s next opponent is slinking into Baton Rouge licking a few wounds, too!
A few hours prior to the Ole Miss/LSU game, the 1-1 Kentucky Wildcats were in College Station playing the heavily favored 2-0 and #9-ranked Texas A&M Aggies.
Just one week earlier, Kentucky led Alabama 17-13 at the half in Lexington before imploding in the second half to lose 45-17.
This week’s game saw the Wildcats battle Texas A&M to a 7-7 halftime tie in Aggieland. The team’s fiery young rookie head coach then gave his team a rather determined halftime speech.
Kentucky coach Will Stein told post-game reporters, “We put our foot down and said we’re not going to be denied. We’re going to take it.”
This week, it was Kentucky scoring 21 unanswered points in the third quarter to zoom in front of Texas A&M and secure a 31-21 victory in front of 100,000 stunned Aggie fans.
TAMU’s head coach Mike Elko said afterwards, “I don’t take away any positives from this game. Kentucky came in here and whooped us.”
LSU (now ranked #10 this week by the AP) and Texas A&M (#23) are now both 2-1. They will meet on Saturday night in Baton Rouge in a key SEC match-up. The game will be televised nationally by ABC beginning at 6:30PM CDT.
Saturday night’s loser will have two losses and their backs against the proverbial wall.
There has never been a three loss team in the season-ending 12-team College Football Playoffs.
LSU’s Death Valley in Baton Rouge is the unofficial host for an early season playoff game between the Tigers and Aggies on Saturday night.
Louisiana’s FBS teams went a miserable 1-4 this weekend!
It was a very tough Saturday for the FBS football teams in the Pelican state. In addition to LSU’s road loss at Ole Miss, the rest of the state didn’t fare much better in Week #3.
Tulane made it all the way to the College Football Playoffs last season before losing to Ole Miss in the opening round.
The Green Wave then lost head coach Jon Sumrall to the Florida Gators. Sumrall’s new team in Gainesville beat Auburn 44-39 Saturday to go 3-0.
Alas, the Tulane Greenies fell to 1-2 this season after a 31-20 loss at 3-0 Kansas State.
Louisiana Tech has yet to locate its missing offense. Perhaps they left it back in Ruston again.
For the second straight weekend, the Road Dogs’ one-dimensional offense failed as 2-1 Baylor beat Louisiana Tech 36-19 in Waco, Texas. Quarterback Tony Kukuk went 22 for 45 for 232 yards and also led the team in rushing with 75 yards. Fifth-year head coach Sonny Cumbie (a former offensive coordinator at Texas Tech) continues to struggle on the offensive side of the football as his Bulldogs dropped to 1-2.
UL-Monroe lost – at home – to an FCS (small college) opponent on Saturday.
The Southeastern Louisiana University Lions (now 2-2) qualified for the FCS playoffs last season. They are not a cream puff opponent. The Lions held-off the UL-Monroe Warhawks 38-35 in Monroe to post their first win over an FBS opponent since 2003. It was ULM’s 11th consecutive loss.
The last victory for the Warhawks came in a 28-16 win over Arkansas State on September 27, 2025. ULM’s homecoming game is this Saturday night as the 0-3 Warhawks host 2-1 Florida Atlantic at Malone Stadium in Monroe.
Only the Rajun Cajuns of UL-Lafayette saved Louisiana’s largest college football schools from being shutout on Saturday.
Quarterback Lunch Winfield “sandwiched” a couple of touchdown runs to lead ULL a 21-10 win over UAB (1-2) in Lafayette Saturday. The Cajuns improved to 2-1 and will travel to play at winless Charlotte (0-3) this week.
Fortunately, the “Second Half” New Orleans Saints saved the weekend for Pelican state football fans
AFC title contender Baltimore was an eight point home favorite to beat the visiting New Orleans Saints on Sunday.
Quarterback Tyler Shough and wide receiver Chris Olave would have none of that! The dynamic duo connected eight times on Sunday including a key touchdown pass in the Saints 24-17 win.
This tandem continues to remind WhoDat fans of Hall-of-Fame QB Drew Brees and wide receiver Marcus Colston during the Saints’ glory years.
The Saints started slowly for the second week in a row. Baltimore took a 14-6 lead into the halftime break.
New Orleans’ young and opportunistic defense then limited the Ravens (now 1-1) to just three points over the final two periods.
Ball control offense dominated the fourth quarter for New Orleans. The Saints’ final two touchdown drives consumed nearly 12 minutes off the clock and kept Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson on the bench.
New Orleans (1-1) will play its first home game of the season in the Louisiana Superdome this Sunday against the surprising 2-0 Las Vegas Raiders at 3:25PM CDT on CBS.
I’m glad that this weekend of football is finally over. There is 75% of the season (or more) still ahead for some of these teams.
Time to go check on Monday’s red beans and rice for dinner!