Admit it, you thought No. 14 Ole Miss was going to blow it against No. 7 Kentucky, too.
How could you not? After the Rebels took a 19-12 halftime lead, Kentucky kept clawing back in and made things a three-point game in the final minutes of the fourth quarter. Even worse, the Cats were moving the ball downfield with relative ease.
When Kentucky (+6.5) went from its own 34-yard line to the Ole Miss eight-yard line in just four plays and with 51 seconds left on the clock, it looked like the Rebels’ homecoming game was headed for a heartbreaking loss.
That was until Ole Miss forced an incredible fumble recovery on first-and-goal to secure the win.
Perhaps no one in Oxford celebrated as hard as the Ole Miss coaches who packed into the tiny coordinators booth at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and nearly fell out onto the field as they realized they won the game, 22-19.
Offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. looks like he briefly forgot he still had to call the ensuing kneel-down plays and tried to take a break from celebrating, but couldn’t get himself to calm down and quickly rejoined the dogpile.
College football remains the absolute best.
Unless you’re a Kentucky fan today.
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