No. 6 Ole Miss will attempt to win its first sport underneath new head coach Pete Golding when it meets No. 11 Tulane in a Faculty Soccer Playoff first-round sport on Saturday in Oxford, Miss.
The Inexperienced Wave will attempt to stop the sport from being its final underneath outgoing head coach Jon Sumrall.
The success of the Rebels (11-1) and Tulane (11-2) led LSU to rent Lane Kiffin away from Ole Miss whereas Florida employed away Sumrall.
Ole Miss selected to not let Kiffin stick round for the playoff and shortly promoted Golding from defensive coordinator. The Inexperienced Wave selected to permit Sumrall to finish the season even after naming passing sport coordinator Will Corridor to succeed Sumrall for subsequent season.
Golding mentioned his focus is on ending the job Kiffin began, and he can wait to replicate on his first alternative to be a head coach in the course of the offseason.
“Proper now I am attempting to organize extraordinarily laborious and get a great plan in place for these gamers and maintain them accountable to follow the best method and put together the best method to give themselves one of the best probability,” Golding mentioned.
Ole Miss does have some continuity with Golding dealing with the protection and offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Charlie Weis Jr. sticking round earlier than becoming a member of Kiffin at LSU.
“We have got extremely certified (offensive coaches) which have been very profitable this season,” Golding mentioned. “I am not getting into there like I am Jon Gruden swiftly.”
Rebels quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, a second-team All-SEC choice, mentioned Kiffin and Golding are “two completely completely different dudes,” noting that Kiffin is quieter and Golding is “very emotional when he talks to the crew.”
When the Rebels routed Tulane 45-10 on Sept. 20 in Oxford, Chambliss handed for 307 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 112 yards. Kewan Lacy, a first-team All-SEC honoree, rushed for 68 yards and two TDs.
“We now have to play a greater soccer sport than we performed the final time in Oxford, Miss., as a result of final time we performed rotten they usually performed good,” Sumrall mentioned. “Hats off to them. They seem to be a actually good crew.
“I simply need to see us play a greater model of Tulane soccer than what I noticed the final time we went up there.”
Inexperienced Wave quarterback Jake Retzlaff, who arrived on campus from BYU simply six weeks earlier than the season opener, struggled within the first assembly. He accomplished 5 of 17 passes for 56 yards earlier than being benched.
“The fellows know who I’m (after a full season), in order that helps rather a lot,” Retzlaff mentioned of his teammates. “We began poorly final sport. That is out, that is gone, that is been flushed by means of the system.”
Ole Miss ranks eleventh within the nation in scoring (37.2 factors per sport) and Tulane is 57th (29.1), however when the Inexperienced Wave stall in scoring place, they will lean on kicker Patrick Durkin. The American Convention Particular Groups Participant of the Yr has made 24 of 27 field-goal makes an attempt, together with 4 of 6 tries from 50-yards plus.
Tulane is 1-0 with Sumrall as a lame duck, having defeated then-No. 24 North Texas 34-21 within the American championship sport on Dec. 5 in New Orleans.
–Discipline Degree Media
