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The No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs face the No. 6 Ole Miss Rebels in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals Thursday at 8pm ET. Georgia defeated Ole Miss 43-35 in Athens, Ga. on Oct. 18.
Ole Miss vs. Georgia will be televised on ESPN and streams live DIRECTV (Free Trial).
What: College Football Playoff Quarterfinals
WHO: #6 Ole Miss Rebels vs. No. 3 Georgia Bulldogs
When: Thursday, January 1, 2025
Where: Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana
Time: 8 p.m. ET
TV: ESPN
Live Streams: DIRECTV (Free Trial), fuboTV (free trial), Sling
Here’s a recent college football story via the Associated Press:
No. 3 Georgia (12-1, CFP No. 3 seed) vs. No. 6 Mississippi (12-1, CFP No. 6 seed), Thursday, 8 p.m. EST (ESPN)
BetMGM College Football Odds: Georgia by 6 1/2.
Series record: Georgia is 33-13-1.
What’s at stake?
The winner advances to the CFP semifinals at the Fiesta Bowl on January 8. Georgia is coming off the heels of an SEC championship and a year after losing to Notre Dame in the quarterfinals in the same bowl game. Now they will try to beat Ole Miss for the second time in one season. The two teams met in Athens on Oct. 18, with the Bulldogs winning 43-35. That was the Rebels’ only loss. They earned revenge by beating Tulane 41-10 in the opening round of the College Football Playoff on Dec. 20, about three weeks after their coach for most of this season, Lane Kiffin, left for LSU and was replaced by former defensive coordinator Pete Golding.
Key matches
Georgia tight end Lawson Luckie was the main problem for the Ole Miss defense in the last meeting. Caught three TD passes from Bulldogs QB Gunner Stockton. The Rebel linebackers and safeties will try to have a better plan to cover Luckie, who has been a key safety valve for Stockton, especially in the red zone. All three of Luckia’s touchdowns came on blitzes inside the Ole Miss 15-yard line.
Players to watch
Mississippi: QB Trinidad Chambliss has provided one of the most impressive story lines in all of college football this season. The transfer from Division II Ferris State began the season as a backup and performed so well as an early-season injury replacement that he retained a starting position for the rest of the season. Along the way, the dual-threat QB passed for 3,298 yards and 19 TDs, with 506 yards and eight TDs rushing.
Georgia: Stockton is also a threat as a passer and runner and has improved in his first full year as the Bulldogs’ starter. This season, he completed 70.7% of his passes for 2,691 yards and 23 TDs while rushing for 442 yards and eight TDs.
Facts and figures
The 50th meeting on the field between these SEC foes will be their first in the postseason. It will also be the eighth time they have played when both have been ranked, with the Bulldogs having won five of the previous seven such games. … Georgia and Mississippi have never played twice in the same season before. … CFP opener Ole Miss was Golding’s only game as a college football head coach. … Mississippi is in its 11th Sugar Bowl after going 6-4 in its previous 10. The Rebels’ last trip to the Sugar Bowl came after the 2021 season, losing to Baylor 21-7. … Ole Miss led the SEC in total offense with 498 yards per game and in passing offense with 312.4 yards per game this season. … Georgia is making its 13th Sugar Bowl appearance after going 5-7 in its previous 12. … The Bulldogs are in their fifth CFP, all under coach Kirby Smart. They are 5-2 in CFP games, including national titles in 2021 and 2022. … The Bulldogs won their 16th SEC championship with a 28-7 victory over Alabama on Dec. 6. Georgia has now won two straight SEC titles for the first time since winning three straight in 1980-82. … Georgia is 65-6 since 2021, the best of any Football Bowl Subdivision team in half a decade. … Last year’s Sugar Bowl was delayed a day because of the killing of 14 people on Bourbon Street by a gunman who drove a truck into a crowd and then died in a shootout with police in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
Can I bet on the game?
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