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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Postgame Notes vs. Kent State
9/22/2018 | Football
Ole Miss 38, Kent State 17
| SERIES INFORMATION |
• The Rebels are now 3-0 against current members of the MAC.
| CAPTAINS |
| FIRST CAREER START |
| DEBUTS |
| GENERAL NOTES |
• Today's game lasted five hours, 39 minutes ... The game featured two weather delays that lasted a totl of two hours and 36 minutes.
• Ole Miss is 118-40-6 (.738 winning pct.) all-time versus non-conference opponents during the month.
• Ole Miss is 104-33-3 (.754 winning pct.) in September home games (including home contests played in Memphis and Jackson), including a 78-20-2 (.790 winning percentage) mark in September games played in Oxford.
• Ole Miss is 165-87-7 (.651 winning pct.) all-time during the month of September.
| OFFENSIVE NOTES |
• Four the fourth straight game, the Rebels had at least one scoring drive that took less than a minute ... Ole Miss has seven such drives so far this season ... The Rebels came into the game ranked third in the country in this category.
• The Ole Miss offense finished with a season-high 651 yards of total offense ... It was the second time this season the Rebels have surpassed the 600-yard mark.
• RB Scottie Phillips hauled in his first career receiving touchdown with a 38-yard TD reception in the first quarter ... Phillips is the fifth different Rebel to tally a TD reception this season.
• Phillips rushed a career-high 19 times for 112 yards yards and one touchdowns ... Phillips currently has five rushing touchdown and six total TDs on the season.
• Jordan Ta'amu finished the game 28-for-38 for 442 yards and two touchdowns ... Ta'amu also tallied his fourth career rushing TD, first this season.
• It was Ta'amu's second 400-yard passing effort of 2018 and the third in his career, more than any other quarterback in Ole Miss history.
• WR D.K. Metcalf finished with six catches for a game-high 102 yards and one touchdown ... It was the fourth straight game Metcalf has hauled in a touchdown reception.
• WR A.J. Brown hauled in a game-high seven catches for 96 yards, including a long of 42 yards.
• Freshman RB Tylan Knight rushed for a career-high 62 yards on six carries, for an average of 10.3 yards per carry.
| DEFENSIVE NOTES |
• Coming into today's contest, Ole Miss has two sacks through three games ... The Rebels recorded seven sacks today vs. Kent State.
• Ole Miss held its opponent under 20 points for the first time since Sept. 24, 2016, when the Rebels held No. 11 Georgia to 14 points.
• DE Markel Winters became just the third Rebel, since 2010, to get three sacks in a single game joining Marquis Haynes (2017) and Jonathan Cornell (2010).
• Winters finished the game with four total tackles, all of which resulted in negative yards for Kent State.
• DB C.J. Moore recovered a Kent State fumble during the fourth quarter ... It was the second straight game Moore tallied a fumble recovery.
• Zedrick Woods, C.J. Moore and Mohamed Sanogo all led Ole Miss with seven total tackles.
• Moore's seven solo stops were a career-high.
• DE Brenden Williams recorded his first career sack ... It was just the junior's third career tackle.
| SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES |
• K Luke Logan connected on a 27-yard attempt and went 1-for-2 during the game ... Logan is now 5-for-6 on the season in field goal attempts.
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