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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Postgame Notes vs. Georgia Tech
9/16/2023 | Football
Ole Miss 48, Georgia Tech 23
| SERIES INFORMATION |
• This game marked Georgia Tech's first ever trip to Oxford.
• Ole Miss has won the last four meetings in the series, including a 42-0 Rebel win in Atlanta in 2022.
• Three of the five prior contests between the Rebels and Yellow Jackets have been in bowl games.
• Georgia Tech won the lone non-neutral game between the two teams in 1946, 24-7 (Grant Field).
| CAPTAINS |
| STARTERS |
• Rebels with 20 or more career starts as of today include James (39), Warren (34), Prince (26) and DE Cedric Johnson (22).
• True freshman WR Ayden Williams made his first collegiate start at Ole Miss.
| GENERAL NOTES |
• Ole Miss is 164-92-7 (.637) all-time during the month of September after vacated wins.
• Ole Miss is 104-35-3 (.743) in September home games (including contests played in Memphis and Jackson).
• The Rebels are 80-22-2 (.778) in September games played in Oxford after vacated wins.
• Ole Miss is 117-41-6 (.731) all-time versus non-conference opponents during September.
• Ole Miss is 63-17 (.787) versus non-conference opponents dating back to a 38-0 win over Tulane on Nov. 12, 1994.
• Under head coach Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss is 12-2 against non-conference opponents.
• The Rebels have only lost one home non-conference game since 2012 (Sept. 23, 2019 vs. #23 Cal, 28-20).
• Ole Miss has a 14-7-1 record against current members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
• The Rebels' last game against an ACC team was the Rebels' 42-0 win over Georgia Tech last season.
• Ole Miss is 22-3 under Kiffin when leading at halftime.
• Ole Miss is now 3-0 for the season for the third consecutive season.
| OFFENSIVE NOTES |
• The Ole Miss offense worked with efficiency, having zero turnovers for the first time since 2022 versus Texas A&M.
• Ole Miss is now 23-5 under Lane Kiffin when scoring first.
• QB Jaxson Dart ended the night 10-of-18 for 251 yards and one touchdown through the air, as well as a career-high 136 yards and two touchdowns rushing.
• This was Dart's third 100-yard passing and 100-yard rushing game of his career, second at Ole Miss.
• Dart now has three rushing touchdowns at Ole Miss and five in his career.
• Dart broke away for a career-long 68 yard rush in the second quarter to put Ole Miss in the red zone.
• With a total of 136 yards on the ground, Dart became the first Rebel quarterback to rush for over 100 yards in a game since Matt Corral at Tennessee in 2021.
• Dart moved to No. 12 all-time at Ole Miss in passing yards (3,826 passing yards) with his 251 yards in the air tonight.
• RB Quinshon Judkins tied a career-high with a 25-yard reception from Dart.
• Judkins' 1-yard rush up the middle into the endzone in the fourth quarter was career rushing TD No. 20, now tied for eighth in Ole Miss history.
• RB Ulysses Bentley IV grabbed his first rushing touchdown of the season for a 21 yard run into the endzone … This marks Bentley's fifth rushing touchdown at Ole Miss and 20th in his career.
• Bentley IV topped his Ole Miss high in yards on the ground, wrapping up his night with a total of 61.
• WR Jordan Watkins hauled in a career-long 68-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter from Dart, the longest reception of the night.
• Watkins put together a career-high in receiving yards with 119 for the night, his third 100-yard game at Ole Miss.
• RB Matt Jones ran for a gain of 36 yards into the endzone, achieving a career-long run and a career-high in rushing yards.
• This marks Jones' ninth rushing attempt and third rushing touchdown in his career, giving him a touchdown on one-third of his career carries.
| DEFENSIVE NOTES |
• The Landshark defense brought down 7.0 TFLs for the night, the Rebels' third straight game with at least 6.0 to start the season.
• S Trey Washington set a new career-high 10 total tackles, as well as his second career forced fumble and his first two TFLs of the season to lead the Rebels tonight.
• LB's Khari Coleman and Jeremiah Jean-Baptiste combined for the lone Ole Miss sack of the night, the first for Jean-Baptiste in a Rebel uniform that also gives Coleman 1.5 on the season.
• Jean-Baptiste tallied a season-high eight tackles.
• DE Isaac Ukwu tacked on his second sack of the season, wrapping up his night with four total tackles.
• Georgia Tech transfer DT Akelo Stone racked up a career-high five tackles.
• S Isheem Young brought down a season-high six tackles, four solo, and a tackle for loss.
• LB Ashanti Cistrunk recorded five tackles, his second-consecutive game with at least five tackles.
| SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES |
• DT Zxavian Harris' field goal block from 43 yards marked the Rebels' first field goal block since 2015 against Arkansas … S Daijahn Anthony assisted with the recovery at the Georgia Tech 34.
• The blocked kick was the second of Harris' career after recording a blocked PAT in 2022 against Kentucky.
• P Fraser Masin's lone punt of the night came in the third quarter and went for 41 yards.
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