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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Postgame Notes vs. Miami
1/8/2026 | Football
SERIES INFORMATION
• This was only the fourth meeting all-time between Ole Miss and Miami … The series is now tied 2-2 all-time alongside prior meetings in Miami in the regular season in 1936 (W, 14-0), 1940 (W, 21-7) and 1951 (L, 20-7).
• This was the first ranked meeting between the two schools, and the first overall in the postseason.
BOWL HISTORY
• This was Ole Miss' first-ever trip to the Fiesta Bowl and its 21st berth to a major bowl game … The Rebels are 13-8 in major bowls (Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Peach, Sugar), and of the main six have only not gone to the Rose Bowl.
• This was Ole Miss 44th bowl appearance in program history, and its all-time bowl record now stands at 28-16 (.636) on the field (which includes a vacated win in the 2013 BBVA Compass Bowl vs. Pitt).
• Ole Miss is now 14-5 in its last 19 bowl games dating back to the 1997 Motor City Bowl.
CAPTAINS
• Tyler Banks (LB), Patrick Kutas (OL), De'Zhaun Stribling (WR), Wydett Williams Jr. (S)
STARTERS
• OL Jayden Williams is Ole Miss' active career leader in starts, making his 34th today at right tackle.
• LB TJ Dottery and LT Diego Pounds made their 24th consecutive starts at Ole Miss, which leads all active Rebels.
GENERAL NOTES
• Tonight's attendance was 67,928.
• This marks the first 15-game campaign in 131 seasons of Ole Miss Football.
• Tonight's loss concludes the first 13-win season in Ole Miss history, which included the Rebels' first ever trip to the College Football Playoff since it debuted in 2014.
OFFENSIVE NOTES
• The Rebels only allowed one sack, the second time this season a top-10 team in total sacks was held to only one sack by Ole Miss (the other being Oklahoma on Oct. 25).
• Ole Miss's 27 points pushed the Rebels to 554 total this year, breaking the 2015 record of 531.
• The Rebels also finished the year with 7,345 total yards, the first Ole Miss squad to ever break 7,000.
• QB Trinidad Chambliss threw for 277 yards and one touchdown, reaching 9,000 total yards, 90 career touchdowns and 7,000 career passing yards in his overall collegiate career across both Division I and II.
• Chambliss' performance tonight was his 12th game with at least 250 passing yards, breaking Jaxson Dart's 2024 record of 11.
• Chambliss finishes 2025 third in single-season total offense (4,464) and passing (3,937).
• RB Kewan Lacy ran for 103 yards and one touchdown on 11 carries … Lacy finishes the year with 1,567 rushing yards, exactly tying Quinshon Judkins' 2022 record (which also ties for 20th in SEC single-season history.
• Lacy also broke Mike Wallace's 2008 record in all-purpose yardage, finishing the year with 1,744 yards ahead of Wallace's 1,737.
• Lacy's one score was a 73-yarder, the fourth-longest in Fiesta Bowl history and the longest since an 89-yard score by Ulysses Bentley IV vs. Mississippi State in 2024).
• Lacy's 73-yard score is the longest rush allowed by the Miami defense that entered ranked fifth nationally at 84.0 yards per game allowed … The prior long was a 38-yarder allowed to Virginia Tech on Nov. 22.
• TE Dae'Quan Wright had three receptions for 64 yards and a TD, moving into second all-time for receiving yards by an Ole Miss tight end with 1,029 yards.
DEFENSIVE NOTES
• The Rebels defense recorded five sacks, the most Miami has allowed all season.
• LB TJ Dottery led with 11 tackles, including a solo sack, giving him 1.5 on the year.
• LB Suntarine Perkins had seven tackles with 1.5 sacks, moving him into sixth all-time at Ole Miss in career sacks (18.5) and seventh in career TFL (32.0).
• LB Princewill Umanmielen secured four total tackles, one sack and one TFL … Umanmielen now owns 9.0 sacks this season, tied for ninth in Ole Miss single-season history and making him one of only 11 Rebels ever with at least 9.0 in a year.
• S Kapena Gushiken hauled in his first interception of the season after DE Kam Franklin batted the pass up in the air, the fourth pick of Gushiken's career.
• CB Chris Graves Jr. had a career-high eight tackles and tied a career-high three pass breakups.
SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES
• K Lucas Carneiro went 4-for-5 on field goals, including a career-long of 58 at the end of the first half … That 58-yarder ranks tied for second in Ole Miss history with a 58-yarder by Cloyce Hinton vs. Houston in 1970 and behind the school record 59-yarder by Hinton vs. Georgia in 1969.
• Carneiro's long strike also ranks second-longest in Fiesta Bowl history and second-longest in CFP history, both records being held by Michigan's Jake Moody in the 2022 Fiesta Bowl that also was the CFP semifinals … Carneiro owns the second (58; vs. Miami), third (56; vs. Georgia), fourth (55; vs. Georgia) and fifth (54; vs. Miami) longest field goals in CFP history.
• In SEC history, Carneiro's 58-yard connection ranks tied for sixth-longest and is the longest by any SEC kicker since 1984.
• Carneiro broke the Ole Miss career record in 50-yard field goals, currently owning five such connections to break Caden Davis' record of four set in 2024.
• Carneiro's nine total field goals during this College Football Playoff has broken the previous CFP record of seven set by Notre Dame's Mitch Jeter in 2024-25 … Carneiro's four 50-yarders also stands as a CFP record.
• Carneiro's career-high four field goals tonight ties the SEC single-season record (31) set by Georgia's Billy Bennett in 2003, as well as the CFP single-game record set by Alabama's Will Reichard in the 2022 national title game … It also stands as an Ole Miss bowl record, while his 13 points are the most ever by an Ole Miss kicker in a bowl game.
• Carneiro (149) finishes as the Ole Miss single-season scoring record holder, as well as third in SEC history in points kicking behind LSU's Cade York in 2019 (152) and Georgia's Jack Podlesney in 2003 (151).
• This was only the fourth meeting all-time between Ole Miss and Miami … The series is now tied 2-2 all-time alongside prior meetings in Miami in the regular season in 1936 (W, 14-0), 1940 (W, 21-7) and 1951 (L, 20-7).
• This was the first ranked meeting between the two schools, and the first overall in the postseason.
BOWL HISTORY
• This was Ole Miss' first-ever trip to the Fiesta Bowl and its 21st berth to a major bowl game … The Rebels are 13-8 in major bowls (Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Peach, Sugar), and of the main six have only not gone to the Rose Bowl.
• This was Ole Miss 44th bowl appearance in program history, and its all-time bowl record now stands at 28-16 (.636) on the field (which includes a vacated win in the 2013 BBVA Compass Bowl vs. Pitt).
• Ole Miss is now 14-5 in its last 19 bowl games dating back to the 1997 Motor City Bowl.
CAPTAINS
• Tyler Banks (LB), Patrick Kutas (OL), De'Zhaun Stribling (WR), Wydett Williams Jr. (S)
STARTERS
• OL Jayden Williams is Ole Miss' active career leader in starts, making his 34th today at right tackle.
• LB TJ Dottery and LT Diego Pounds made their 24th consecutive starts at Ole Miss, which leads all active Rebels.
GENERAL NOTES
• Tonight's attendance was 67,928.
• This marks the first 15-game campaign in 131 seasons of Ole Miss Football.
• Tonight's loss concludes the first 13-win season in Ole Miss history, which included the Rebels' first ever trip to the College Football Playoff since it debuted in 2014.
OFFENSIVE NOTES
• The Rebels only allowed one sack, the second time this season a top-10 team in total sacks was held to only one sack by Ole Miss (the other being Oklahoma on Oct. 25).
• Ole Miss's 27 points pushed the Rebels to 554 total this year, breaking the 2015 record of 531.
• The Rebels also finished the year with 7,345 total yards, the first Ole Miss squad to ever break 7,000.
• QB Trinidad Chambliss threw for 277 yards and one touchdown, reaching 9,000 total yards, 90 career touchdowns and 7,000 career passing yards in his overall collegiate career across both Division I and II.
• Chambliss' performance tonight was his 12th game with at least 250 passing yards, breaking Jaxson Dart's 2024 record of 11.
• Chambliss finishes 2025 third in single-season total offense (4,464) and passing (3,937).
• RB Kewan Lacy ran for 103 yards and one touchdown on 11 carries … Lacy finishes the year with 1,567 rushing yards, exactly tying Quinshon Judkins' 2022 record (which also ties for 20th in SEC single-season history.
• Lacy also broke Mike Wallace's 2008 record in all-purpose yardage, finishing the year with 1,744 yards ahead of Wallace's 1,737.
• Lacy's one score was a 73-yarder, the fourth-longest in Fiesta Bowl history and the longest since an 89-yard score by Ulysses Bentley IV vs. Mississippi State in 2024).
• Lacy's 73-yard score is the longest rush allowed by the Miami defense that entered ranked fifth nationally at 84.0 yards per game allowed … The prior long was a 38-yarder allowed to Virginia Tech on Nov. 22.
• TE Dae'Quan Wright had three receptions for 64 yards and a TD, moving into second all-time for receiving yards by an Ole Miss tight end with 1,029 yards.
DEFENSIVE NOTES
• The Rebels defense recorded five sacks, the most Miami has allowed all season.
• LB TJ Dottery led with 11 tackles, including a solo sack, giving him 1.5 on the year.
• LB Suntarine Perkins had seven tackles with 1.5 sacks, moving him into sixth all-time at Ole Miss in career sacks (18.5) and seventh in career TFL (32.0).
• LB Princewill Umanmielen secured four total tackles, one sack and one TFL … Umanmielen now owns 9.0 sacks this season, tied for ninth in Ole Miss single-season history and making him one of only 11 Rebels ever with at least 9.0 in a year.
• S Kapena Gushiken hauled in his first interception of the season after DE Kam Franklin batted the pass up in the air, the fourth pick of Gushiken's career.
• CB Chris Graves Jr. had a career-high eight tackles and tied a career-high three pass breakups.
SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES
• K Lucas Carneiro went 4-for-5 on field goals, including a career-long of 58 at the end of the first half … That 58-yarder ranks tied for second in Ole Miss history with a 58-yarder by Cloyce Hinton vs. Houston in 1970 and behind the school record 59-yarder by Hinton vs. Georgia in 1969.
• Carneiro's long strike also ranks second-longest in Fiesta Bowl history and second-longest in CFP history, both records being held by Michigan's Jake Moody in the 2022 Fiesta Bowl that also was the CFP semifinals … Carneiro owns the second (58; vs. Miami), third (56; vs. Georgia), fourth (55; vs. Georgia) and fifth (54; vs. Miami) longest field goals in CFP history.
• In SEC history, Carneiro's 58-yard connection ranks tied for sixth-longest and is the longest by any SEC kicker since 1984.
• Carneiro broke the Ole Miss career record in 50-yard field goals, currently owning five such connections to break Caden Davis' record of four set in 2024.
• Carneiro's nine total field goals during this College Football Playoff has broken the previous CFP record of seven set by Notre Dame's Mitch Jeter in 2024-25 … Carneiro's four 50-yarders also stands as a CFP record.
• Carneiro's career-high four field goals tonight ties the SEC single-season record (31) set by Georgia's Billy Bennett in 2003, as well as the CFP single-game record set by Alabama's Will Reichard in the 2022 national title game … It also stands as an Ole Miss bowl record, while his 13 points are the most ever by an Ole Miss kicker in a bowl game.
• Carneiro (149) finishes as the Ole Miss single-season scoring record holder, as well as third in SEC history in points kicking behind LSU's Cade York in 2019 (152) and Georgia's Jack Podlesney in 2003 (151).
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