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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Ole Miss Postgame Notes
9/30/2000 | Football
Sept. 30, 2000
DEUCE WATCH
135 all-purpose yards (75 rushing, 9 PR, 51 KR) on 22 touches and scored one TD
* McAllister moved into second-place in career rushing yards at Ole Miss with 2,644, 10 shy of tying Kayo Dottley's (1947-50) career record of 2,654.
* McAllister's one-yard TD run in the first quarter gives him 19 in the Rebels' 10 games, including last December's Sanford Independence Bowl. He has scored at least one TD in each of Ole Miss' four games this season.
OLE MISS NOTES
Ole Miss held Kentucky to 231 yards of total offense on 66 plays, 235 yards below the Wildcats' season-average of 466.5 heading into tonight's game. Kentucky entered the game with the SEC's top ranked offense.
The Rebels held UK quarterback Jared Lorenzen to 192 yards on 17-of-42 passing with three interceptions. It was the first time in five games this season that the Wildcat signal-caller failed to throw for at least 300 yards.
Ole Miss recorded its fifth straight 3-1 start and its sixth in the last eight years. The Rebels have gone on to post a winning record and earn a bowl berth the last three seasons after starting 3-1.
The Rebels posted their fifth consecutive winning record (3-1) in the month of September tonight against Kentucky. The last time Ole Miss failed to finish the first month of the season at least .500, was in 1998 (1-2).
Since lights were installed in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium/Hollingsworth Field in 1990, Ole Miss is 19-2 in home night games, starting with their 23-21 win over Memphis State on Sept. 8, 1990.
Junior defensive back Justin Coleman recorded his first career interception in the first quarter.
True freshman wide receiver Chris Collins scored his first career touchdown on his first career reception as an Ole Miss Rebel. Collins caught a 36-yard TD pass from Romaro Miller for Ole Miss' first score of tonight's game.
Ole Miss scored its first safety this season, and the first since the South Carolina game last year. The Rebels defeated South Carolina, 36-10 last season.
Senior Grant Heard moved into seventh place in career receiving yards with 69 yards and one touchdown. With 1,572 career receiving yards, Heard needs 22 to pass Eddie Small (1,593) for sixth. He also tied Buford McGee with 112 career receptions.
Senior quarterback Romaro Miller tied Kent Austin and Archie Manning for career TD passes with 31. Miller's 31st TD pass was a 23-yard connection to Grant Heard in the second quarter.
Romaro Miller moved into third place on the Rebels' career passing yardage chart with his 238-yard performance tonight versus Kentucky. Miller now has 5,060 career passing yards. He needs 352 yards to move into second.
Senior Derrick Burgess' interception in the fourth quarter was the first of his career.
