Postgame Notes

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ALABAMA POSTGAME NOTES
* Alabama suffers its first loss to Ole Miss since 1988 and its first-ever loss to the Rebels here in Oxford. The Rebels last win over Alabama was a 22-12 win on Oct. 8, 1988, spoiling the Crimson Tide's homecoming at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The Rebels had also never beaten the Crimson Tide here in Oxford until today. In fact, Ole Miss' last win over Alabama in the state of Mississippi came on Sept. 11, 1976 at Jackson's Mississippi Memorial Stadium. Hoppy Langley's fourth quarter field goal lifted UM over Alabama in the season opener.

*Alabama has lost its second straight SEC road game after blowing its second straight double-digit lead in the fourth quarter. Alabama owned a 24-14 lead today before Ole Miss scored two touchdowns in the final 9:24 to claim a 27-24 win. Against South Carolina (Sept. 29), Alabama blew a 36-24 lead with less than seven minutes to play and lost 37-36. Ole Miss scored on a three-yard pass play to win today's game with 46 seconds left in the game. At South Carolina, the Gamecocks scored the game-winner with 2:18 left in the game.

*The Alabama offense managed only 17 total yards in the fourth quarter against Ole Miss. The Tide ran the ball seven times for 17 yards and not complete any of its seven pass attempts in the final 15 minutes.

*When Alabama scored with 7:42 left in the first quarter, it marked the third straight game the Tide scored on its opening drive of the game. The 86-yard drive tied the longest scoring drive of the season. Alabama had an 86-yarder against South Carolina.

* Sam Collins scored his first career touchdown this afternoon when he hauled in a 58-yard pass from Tyler Watts with 4:50 remaining in the second quarter.

*Tyler Watts ran 13 times for 110 yards, his third consecutive 100-yard rushing game. He is the only quarterback in school history to post three straight 100 yard games. Watts completed only seven of 24 passes for 136 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw one interception.

*In addition, Watts joins Pat Trammell (1959-61) as the only to quarterbacks in school history to post three career 100-yard rushing games. Trammell had 100 or more yards against Tulane (143 vs. Tulane, 1959), UT Chattanooga (106 yards, 1959) and Vanderbilt (110 yards, 1961).

*Junior tailback Ahmaad Galloway ran 16 times for 61 yards and scored one touchdown today against Ole Miss. Galloway now has 1,194 career rushing yards at Alabama, good for 29th place on the all-time rushing list.

*Alabama's second quarter field goal marked the first time in 10 possessions the Crimson Tide failed to score a touchdown in the red zone. Alabama scored a TD on its last possession at South Carolina and converted all eight possesions into TDs last week against UTEP. Alabama made its 10 in-a-row this afternoon after a first-quarter touchdown, a six-yard run by Galloway.

OLE MISS POSTGAME NOTES

SERIES NOTES
* Today's game is the 49th meeting all-time between Ole Miss and Alabama dating back to 1894.

* Today's win snapped Ole Miss' 10-game losing streak to Alabama. Prior to today, the last time the Rebels had beaten the Crimson Tide on the field was in 1988, 22-12 in Tuscaloosa. Ole Miss was awarded a forfeit victory in 1993 after the Crimson Tide had defeated the Rebels 19-14 in Oxford.

* Today's victory was Ole Miss' first-ever on-the-field victory over Alabama in Oxford in five tries.

* Alabama leads the series 39-8-2.

NOTING ELI
Manning: 22-of-41 passing, 325 yards, 1 TD, 0 INTs
* The 325 yards passing was Manning's first career 300-yard passing game, and his fifth straight with at least 250 yards passing.

* Manning has thrown at least one TD pass in six consecutive games dating back to last December's Music City Bowl against West Virginia. The school record for consecutive games with a TD pass is eight held by Archie Manning and Romaro Miller.

* The 41 passing attempts was a career high, two more than his previous high of 39 set at Auburn on Sept. 8.

* Today's win was the first fourth-quarter comebacker engineered by Manning in his career.

* Manning was 3-of-4 passing for 68 yards on the game-winning drive, that was five plays, 59 yards and took 48 seconds, capped off by Manning's 3-yard TD pass to Joe Gunn with 46 seconds left.

TEAM NOTES

* Ole Miss wore its blue jerseys for the first time this season. The last time the Rebels wore blue was last Thanksgiving when Ole Miss defeated Mississippi State 45-30.

* Ole Miss has outscored the opposition 55-17 in the fourth quarter this season.

* Today's win was the first in seven games by Ole Miss under Head Coach David Cutcliffe when trailing at halftime.

* With today's victory, Head Coach David Cutcliffe becomes the third fastest coach in school history to reach 20 wins, doing so in his 30th. Harry J. Mehre reached 20 wins at Ole Miss in his 24th game, and John Vaught needed 28 games to reach 20 victories with the Rebels.

OFFENSIVE NOTES

* Sophomore WR Chris Collins caught a career-high eight passes for 110 yards to become the first Ole Miss receiver to record three 100-yard receiving games in a season. Collins had 100 yards receiving in the season opener against Murray State on Sept. 1 and recorded a career-high 119 receiving yards at Kentucky on Sept. 29.

* Senior RB Joe Gunn rushed for 78 yards on 14 carries to pass Leon Perry (1976-79) for fourth-place on the school's career rushing list. Gunn now has 2,191 career rushing yards. Perry finished his career with 2,135. Dou Innocent is third on the list with 2,322 yards.

* Toward Sanford's one-yard TD run in the second quarter marked his seventh TD in the past three games, including his sixth rushing. All seven of his scores have come from two yards or less.

* The three sacks allowed by Ole Miss was the most since allowing three to Alabama on Oct. 16, 1999, in Oxford.

* Senior FL Omar Rayford had his streak of consecutive games with a reception stopped at 14. The last time Rayford failed to catch a pass was last year against Auburn on Sept. 9, 2000.

DEFENSIVE NOTES

* Junior LB Lanier Goethie recorded his first career interception when he picked off a Tyler Watts pass with :26 seconds left to seal the win.

* The seven completions by Alabama was the fewest allowed by Ole Miss since holding UNLV to seven completions on 25 attempts last season in Oxford.

* Cody Ridgeway's 51-yard punt on his second attempt was his first career 50-yard punt. He later added a career long 54-yarder in the third quarter.

* PK Jonathan Nichols missed his first career extra point in the fourth quarter after Ole Miss had scored to pull within 24-20. Nichols had made the first 23 extra points of his career prior to the miss.

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