No. 9 Ole Miss vs. No. 24 Louisville: Live Game Updates and Box Score

The No. 9 Ole Miss Rebels will kick off their season versus the No. 24 ranked Louisville Cardinals this Sunday night in Nissan Stadium.

Despite coming off the best season in program history, an offseason full of Trinidad Chambliss eligibility questions and Kiffin drama didn't exactly instill hope. Yet with Rebel football just around the corner, Oxford is nothing but hyped for a revenge season led by their returning stars Kewan Lacy and Trinidad Chambliss.

The Rebels enter the season carrying the highest preseason ranking in their history, along with the pressure that comes with it. Oxford may be excited for the season but there is also expectations that go with it. Then you throw in Heisman campaigns for Chambliss and Lacy and suddenly, all everybody wants to talk about is Heismans and national championships.

Pete Golding and the Rebels can't feed into those expectations and start looking ahead, it's one game a week and the Rebels need to take it at that pace. It's a long season, and the first week of that season will be against a strong No. 24 Louisville team.

Last season the Cardinals had one of the most consistent defenses in college football finishing 16th in the country in yards allowed per game. With 6 returning starters on that defense, it is going to be a real test for this Rebels offense. Ole Miss has it chance to put all the offseason noise to rest in week 1 by showing everybody last season wasn't a fluke.

Follow along for live game updates as the game progresses below.

	1Q	2Q	3Q	4Q	Score
Louisville	3	3	18	14	38
Ole Miss	0	10	14	17	41

1st Quarter

The Rebels started the game out on offense, but after a high snap the Rebels stalled out and punted on a three and out.

change of possession

Louisville started their drive with some short gains before calling timeout on a 3rd and 3. Louisville converted on a short run from Isaac Brown. Louisville completed a long throw to Jaleel Skinner to take them inside the 10, but Rebels held the Cardinals to a field goal after several delay of games and a TFL from Kam Franklin.

change of possession

The Rebels opened the drive with more high snaps but Chambliss handled them well and scrambled for multiple first downs. After his 3rd touch of the drive Kewan Lacy went down with an injury before returning later in the drive. Trinidad Chambliss then fumbled on a 4th and short conversion, Louisville recovered.

change of possession

Louisville opened the drive with a pass interference before stalling out thanks to a pass break up by Braxton and punting the ball back to Ole Miss.

change of possession

Ole Miss opened the drive with Kewan Lacy getting multiple touches and a first down before a deep ball to Traylon Ray. After a short run by Frazier the quarter ended on a 3rd and 5 for the Rebels.

2nd Quarter

The Rebels failed to convert on 3rd down after an incomplete pass. Lucas Carneiro nailed his first field goal of the year from 43 yards out.

change of possession

Louisville opened the drive with a first down conversion by Kienholz. After a Perkins TFL and Kienholz overthrow, the Cardinals had a high snap fumble on the punt putting the Rebels in the red zone.

change of possession

After starting the drive on the 11 yard line, Kewan Lacy converted a wildcat first down then took it in for the 1 yard rushing touchdown.

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Louisville opened the drive with an underthrow by Kienholz and then a false start, after Perkins and Blake Purchase sacked Kienholz on third down. The Cardinals punted back to Ole Miss.

change of possession

The Rebels opened the drive with nominal gains before Trinidad threw an interception on 3rd and 8.

change of possession

The Cardinals stalled in a three and out after a big TFL from Perkins. Louisville punted, the ball was spotted at the 20 yard line after a Louisville player accidently touched it.

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Ole Miss opened the drive with quick first downs from Kewan Lacy and Deuce Alexander respectively. Trinidad converted a 3rd and short with his legs before Kewan Lacy converted a 4th and 1. After the two minute warning the Rebels failed to convert on third down after an incompletion to Johntay Cook II. Lucas Carniero missed the field goal from 46 yards out.

change of possession

Louisville started the drive with a 16 yard run from Keyjuan Brown. On 3rd and 6 Louisville and Ole Miss both called timeouts before Kienholz pass was batted down by Perkins. Carson Hilbert made his 46 yard field goal attempt

change of possession

Traylon Rays return took all 6 seconds off the clock, the Rebels led the Cardinals 10-6 going into halftime.

Halftime

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3rd Quarter

Louisville received the ball first coming out of halftime. After a big TFL on 2nd and 1 by Butler, Kienholz converted the 3rd and short. Kienholz then completed a 27 yard pass to TreyShun Hurry to put the Cardinals in scoring position. Tre Richardson then scored a 30 yard rushing touchdown to give the Cardinals the 3 point lead.

change of possession

Ole Miss started the drive with a 3rd and short conversion by a direct snap to Kewan Lacy. Trinidad then completed a 62 yard touchdown pass to Deuce Alexander to give the Rebels the lead again.

change of possession

Louisville opened the drive at their own 7 with a 17 yard run by KeyJuan Brown. The Rebel defense then held the Cardinals to a third and long and forced a timeout. After the break Kienholz over threw Skinner on third down forcing a punt.

change of possession

After starting the drive slowly Trinidad was hit late out of bounds on 3rd down which caused an unnecessary roughness resulting in an automatic first down. The Rebels then stalled out and punted back to the Cardinals.

change of possession

Lincoln Kienholz opened up the drive with a 41 yard designed run to take Louisville into Rebel territory. Louisville then failed the third down conversion on another designed Kienholz run, forcing a 45 yard field goal by Carson Hilbert.

change of possession

Ole Miss started the drive with a holding penalty before a 19 yard pass to Fields which set up a short first down conversion by Frazier. Deuce Alexander then caught his second 62 yard touchdown of the game.

change of possession

Louisville opened the drive with a timeout on first down, then Tre Richardson scored a 62 yard receiving touchdown. Louisville used their third and final timeout before their 2 point conversion attempt which was successful.

change of possession

Ole Miss had one 6 yard rush by Frazier before taking it into the 4th Quarter.

4th Quarter

Lindsey started the 4th quarter with a 1st down run, which was followed by a 17 yard first down scramble by Chambliss. Trinidad then threw a 35 yard touchdown to tight end Caleb Odom to give the Rebels the lead again.

change of possession

Louisville opened the drive with flags and lost yardage that put them at 3rd and 13. After a sack from Kam Franklin the Louisville Cardinals were forced to punt back to the already hot Rebel offense.

change of possession

With a first down completion to Hasz, Ole Miss was in Louisville territory in just 2 plays. But with a facemask by Howes that set the offense back 15 yards, Ole Miss was forced to send out Carneiro to kick a 57 yard field goal which was short. Luckily, Louisville roughed the kicker which put Ole Miss back in scoring position. Chambliss capitalized with a rushing touchdown to bring the Ole Miss lead up to 38-24.

change of possession

Louisville started out the drive with a third down conversion by Skinner. After a Kienholz scramble Lawayne McCoy caught a 52 yard touchdown bringing the Cardinals back into a 1 score game.

change of possession

Ole Miss got the ball with under 5 minutes left, and with Louisville having used all their timeouts in the 3rd Quarter, Ole Miss opened the drive with two runs. On 3rd and 4 Chambliss threw the ball away forcing a punt with just over 3 minutes left in the game.

change of possession

Louisville opened the drive with a 24 yard reception by Skinner, Kienholz was then sacked for a 1 yard loss. Tre Richardson then converted a first down before the two minute warning. Kienholz converted a 3rd and short on a QB sneak before completing a 31 yard completion to Isaac Brown. After a dropped interception Kienholz scored a 7 yard rushing touchdown.

change of possession

To start the drive Chambliss connected with Deuce for a 15 yard reception. After scrambling to avoid a sack it was 3rd and short, then Chambliss found Odom for 18 yards to put the Rebels in field goal range. With 2 more runs to bleed the clock the Rebels set up Carneiro for a 48 yard field goal which he drilled for the Rebel win.

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