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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Postgame Notes vs. Arkansas
11/19/2022 | Football
Arkansas 42, Ole Miss 27
| SERIES INFORMATION |
• Tonight marked the 69th meeting on the field between Ole Miss and Arkansas in a series that dates back to 1908.
• The Razorbacks hold a 37-29-1 series lead ... The original series record is 37-31-1 with Ole Miss' wins in 2012 & 2013 being vacated due to NCAA ruling.
• Arkansas' records will now indicate a 38-28-1 advantage for the Razorbacks ... Arkansas claims a forfeit victory in a 1914 game that Ole Miss won 13-7.
• Arkansas now leads 13-2 in Fayetteville and an 18-11 edge since it joined the SEC in 1992.
| CAPTAINS |
• Nick Broeker (OL), KD Hill (DT) and Jonathan Mingo (WR).
| STARTERS |
• OL Nick Broeker and OL Jeremy James tallied their team-leading 34th consecutive starts for Ole Miss on the offensive line.
• Other notable starting streaks include S AJ Finley (20th) ... Other Rebels in double-digit start streaks include WR Jonathan Mingo (14) and CB Deantre Prince (13).
• Mingo leads all Rebels with 37 career starts.
• Freshman RB Quinshon Judkins made his fourth career start and fourth in a row.
• CB Miles Battle earned his third career start as a Rebel, the second this season and second in a row.
| GENERAL NOTES |
• Attendance for today's game was 71,365.
| OFFENSIVE NOTES |
• Ole Miss tallied a season-high 703 yards of total offense, the fifth-most yards in a single game in program history ... Ranks No. 6 FBS and No. 2 SEC this season.
• Head coach Lane Kiffin is responsible for three of the five total 700-yard games in Ole Miss history: 708 vs. South Carolina in 2020, 707 vs. Tulane in 2021, and 703 tonight against Arkansas.
• The Rebels also ran for a season-high 463 yards on the ground, the third-most in program history and the most since rushing for 515 vs. Auburn in 1951 ... That ranks No. 5 in the FBS and No. 1 in the SEC this season ... Ole Miss now holds three of the top-four team single-game rushing totals this season.
• RB Quinshon Judkins (24 carries, 214 yards, 1 TD) and Zach Evans (17 carries, 207 yards, 1 TD) combined for 421 total rushing yards ... They are the first duo in Ole Miss history to cross 200 rushing yards within the same game, as well as the first to rush for at least 150 in available game-by-game data since at least 1976.
• Judkins' 214 yards ranks No. 10 in Ole Miss single-game history, while Evans' 207 ranks No. 12.
• Judkins joins FB Kayo Dottley (1947-50) as the only Rebels to record multiple 200-yard rushing games ... Dottley recorded all three of his in the 1949 season.
• Judkins broke Dottley's 73-year-old Ole Miss single-season rushing record of 1,312 yards set in 1949 ... After tonight, Judkins currently sits at 1,385 yards.
• Judkins is now tied Georgia's Todd Gurley for fourth all-time among SEC freshmen in rushing yards at 1,385 ... Above him on that list are Georgia's Herschel Walker (1980, 1,616 yards), Georgia's Nick Chubb (2014, 1,547 yards) and Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel (2012, 1,410 yards).
• Judkins is the fourth SEC freshmen to record at least eight 100-yard rushing games alongside Todd Gurley in 2012 (9), Nick Chubb in 2014 (8), Emmitt Smith in 1987 (8).
• Judkins is the 40th SEC running back in available records to record at least eight 100-yard rushing games in a single-season, as well as the 20th to do so since 2000.
• Judkins also ended with a career-high 241 all-purpose yards, the 15th-most in school history.
• Combined with Evans' 207 yards, this is the first time two Rebels crossed 200 all-purpose yards since 2007 against Missouri (BenJarvus Green-Ellis, 226; Marshay Green, 208).
• Judkins' rushing touchdown tonight extended his school record for single-season scores to 16 rushing touchdowns.
• Judkins has run for at least one touchdown in nine consecutive games, scoring 15 times in that span.
• Judkins' 24 carries tonight pushes him to 229 on the season, which ranks No. 3 in Ole Miss single-season history and just five away from Green-Ellis' 2006 record of 234.
• Evans' 207 yards are an overall career-high, his fourth 100-yard game as a Rebel ... Evans ended with three rushes beyond 30 yards, giving him four total on the year.
• WR Malik Heath had 140 yards receiving and one score after tying his career-high with nine receptions ... Fourth 100-yard receiving game for Heath, his second in a row and third in his last four games.
• Heath had two receptions of at least 25 yards tonight, giving him 12 such catches on the season ... His 53-yard catch is a season-long and the second-longest of his career.
• QB Jaxson Dart finished 21-for-36 with 240 yards and one TD through the air ... He carried the ball 11 times for 44 yards.
| DEFENSIVE NOTES |
• Ole Miss ended with 8.0 tackles for loss on the night, the fourth game the Rebels have recorded at least 8.0 TFL.
• DB Isheem Young tallied a career-high in tackles for his second straight game, tonight recording 10 stops (5 solo) along with 1.0 TFL.
• LB Ashanti Cistrunk tied his career-high with 2.5 tackles for loss ... He ended the night with eight total tackles and his first sack of the season.
• DB AJ Finley recorded a career-high 2.0 tackles for loss alongside five tackles.
• DB Ladarius Tennison recorded a season-high with 2.0 tackles for loss.
| SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES |
• K Jonathan Cruz is now 12-of-14 on the season, and 6-of-7 from 40 yards or further ... Cruz entered leading the SEC in field goal percentage.
• This was the fourth multi-field goal game of the season for Cruz.
• At 82 points this season, Cruz ranks No. 18 on the Ole Miss single-season scoring list ... He ranks No. 13 among all Rebel kickers.
