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ARKANSAS POSTGAME NOTES
Arkansas assistant coach Chris Vaughn did not travel with the team on Friday because he was at Washington Regional Hospital with his wife, Marquette, who gave birth to their first child, Christopher Matthew Vaughn Jr. (eight pounds, five ounces, 20 inches long) at 6:07 p.m. Friday. Vaughn flew in commercially Saturday for the game.

Arkansas entered the Ole Miss game 2-0 all-time in overtime games, ironically, both games in Mississippi against Mississippi State. UA beat MSU 16-13 in 1996 and 17-10 in 2000. UA is now 3-0 all-time in overtime games with all three played in the state of Mississippi.

Arkansas and Ole Miss played the most overtime periods in a single game in NCAA history.

Arkansas' win is its first in five trips to Oxford, Miss.

Entering the game, Arkansas had lost 11 of its last 12 SEC road games. The last win was 17-10 in overtime at Mississippi State last season.

Fred Talley, Cedric Cobbs and Matt Jones all rushed for 100 or more yards for Arkansas, the first time three players have done so in the same game since 1993 when Carlton Calvin, Oscar Malone and Marius Johnson cracked the century mark against LSU.

Sophomore safety Jimarr Gallon and freshman tight end Jason Peters made their first starts of the year.

Gallon's third-quarter sack of Eli Manning is the first of his career.

Gallon entered the game with six tackles for the season. Unofficially, he had seven stops against the Rebels.

Ole Miss' first quarter touchdown is the first first-quarter TD Arkansas has allowed in four games, since Sept. 29 at Georgia.

Zak Clark's second-quarter interception marked the first turnover for Arkansas in three games, since playing Weber State on Oct. 6.

Cedric Cobbs had 34 yards and a score on six carries in the first half. The 34 yards is a game season high this season, topping the 29 yards and one touchdown on 13 carries in the opener against UNLV.

Ole Miss' 56-yard completion from Eli Manning to Doug Zeigler in the third quarter is the longest pass play Arkansas has allowed this year.

Fred Talley rushed for more than 100 yards for the third time in four games. He had 135 yards on 17 carries against Weber State and 111 on 33 rushes against South Carolina. Last year, Talley had 214 yards and two touchdowns on 29 carries in last year's game against the Rebels.

Brennan O'Donohoe's 45-yard field goal in the third quarter is a career long. His previous long was 38 yards last year at Mississippi State. O'Donohoe's is now seven of eight on the season.

Through three quarters, George Wilson had seven receptions for 81 yards. The seven catches matches his career high set at Alabama earlier this year while the yardage total is a personal best.

Freshman fullback Mark Pierce's rushes and rushing yardage are both career highs. His two-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter is also his first career score.

OLE MISS POSTGAME NOTES

SERIES NOTES
* Tonight's game was the 48th meeting all-time between Ole Miss and Arkansas dating back to 1908.
* Arkansas' 58-56 win was the Razorbacks' first-ever in five trips to Oxford.
* According to Ole Miss records, Arkansas now leads the series 24-23-1, while Arkansas records indicate the Razorbacks holding a 25- 22-1 lead in the series. The dispute is over a 1914 game that Ole Miss won 13-7, and Arkansas indicates a forfeit win for the Razorbacks.

NOTING ELI
27-of-42 passing, 312 yards, 6 TDs, 0 INTs.
* Manning's six TDs breaks his own school single-game record of five set in the season opener against Murray State.
* Five of his six TD passes came during the overtimes.
* Now has 23 TD passes on the season to set a new Ole Miss single-season record. The old mark was 18 set by Charlie Conerly in 1947 and Romaro Miller last season.
* Became the seventh player in school history to throw for 2,000 yards in a season.
* Is the fastest in school history to reach the 2,000-yard mark for a season, doing so in eight games. The previous record was nine set by Stewart Patridge in 1997 and Romaro Miller in 1998.
* His three-yard TD pass to Jason Armstead in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 17-17, marked his ninth consecutive game with at least one TD pass dating back to last December's Music City Bowl, setting a new school record. The previous record was eight held by Archie Manning and Romaro Miller.
* The 312-yard passing effort was his second 300-yard game of the season. He passed for 325 yards in the Rebels' 27-24 win over Alabama on Oct. 13.

TEAM NOTES
* Tonight's loss snapped Ole Miss' five-game winning streak, which was its longest since closing out the 1992 season with five straight victories.
* The loss also snapped the Rebels' three-game SEC winning streak.
* The Rebels are now 5-3 all-time in overtime games. Tonight's contest marked Ole Miss' first overtime game since last year against UNLV on Oct. 28, a game the Rebels won 43-40.
* Tonight's attendance of 47,464 was the Rebels' largest home crowd of the season, surpassing 47,110 that saw Ole Miss host Alabama on Oct. 13.

OFFENSIVE NOTES
* Senior RB Joe Gunn recorded his third 100-yard rushing game of the season with 102 yards on a career-high 31 carries. It is Gunn's 11th career 100-yard rushing game, putting him alone in second place on the Ole Miss career list, three shy of Deuce McAllister's career record of 14.
* Junior WR Jason Armstead caught three TD passes tonight to tie the school single-game record held by Johnny Brewer (1960 vs. Tulane), Louis Guy (1962 vs. Houston), Pat Coleman (1989 vs. Arkansas State), and Chris Collins (2001 vs. Murray State).
* Junior TE Doug Zeigler recorded his first career 100-yard receiving game, catching a career-high five passes for 102 yards and two TDs, including a career-long 56-yard reception in the third quarter. It is the second straight game Zeigler has caught two TD passes.
* Redshirt freshman WR Bill Flowers set career highs for receptions (7) and receiving yards (97).
* Junior RB Robert Williams returned to action after missing the past four games after undergoing arthoscopic surgery on his left knee to remove a partial meniscus tear on Oct. 5.

DEFENSIVE NOTES
* The 7 rushing TDs by Arkansas tonight tied the Ole Miss record for the most rushing TDs allowed in a game. Tennessee scored 7 rushing TDs against Ole Miss on Nov. 17, 1951, and Alabama did so on Sept. 20, 1980.
* The 106 plays ran by Arkansas was the most ever against Ole Miss, breaking the previous high of 101 set by Auburn on Oct. 5, 1985.
* Ole Miss has an interception in 7-of-8 games this season, and in 17 of the last 18 games dating back to last year's Vanderbilt contest.
* Five players recorded double digits in tackles for the Rebels: Matt Grier 15 (5-10), Eddie Strong 14 (5-9), Kevin Thomas 14 (4-10), Kenny Jackson 2-12 (14), and L.P. Spence 10 (3-7). All were career highs.

LB KEVIN THOMAS
14 tackles (4-10)
* His interception in the second quarter was the third of his career, and his firstsince picking off two passes last year at Vanderbilt.
* Forced a Fred Talley fumble in the third quarter that Ole Miss recovered at its own 29 yardline to keep the game tied at 7-7.

SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES
* Redshirt freshman Jonathan Nichols' 32-yard field goal in the third quarter was his season long.
* The Rebels were 1-for-5 in two-point conversions during the overtime session.

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