(intense music)
- [Narrator] Welcome to Ole Miss Bama 2016.
The wait is finally over.
It's the SEC opener for the Rebels and the Tide.
The road to Atlanta begins now.
- This is what you live for right here.
Look around, look around.
This what you live for, okay?
Hey, number 15 and number six, number 15, number six.
Go have some fun, go have some fun.
What time is it?
- [Players] Showtime. - Let's go.
(cheering)
- You know, we pride ourself on starting fast
and, you know, taking the fight,
tempo of the fight to the defense.
That's something we take pride in every single week.
- Make plays, baby, make plays!
(upbeat music)
- [Commentator] Five wides, Kelly's got a man!
At the 50, it's Evan Engram.
First down, Rebels, at the 35 yard line.
- First down, first down!
- [Commentator] Pass, zip one in there!
Caught at the 23 yard line,
Adeboyejo caught a dart from Kelly!
- We definitely had to make big plays
down the field to beat them.
That's one thing about Alabama,
you can't just keep chipping away
and small plays here and there.
To beat them, and compete with them,
and score points on them, you have to make big plays.
- [Commentator] First and 10, the 24 yard line of Alabama.
There's the hand-off to Judd,
Judd on the left side breaks clear!
He may go, he's to the five!
He's in the end zone!
Touchdown, Ole Miss!
(cheering)
- Yeah!
Yes!
- [Commentator] The Rebels popped the Tide in the mouth,
right out of the gate.
The question was, could this offensive line muster
any running game to help Chad Kelly.
He threw the ball effectively, and what did it do?
It allowed Rod Taylor and Javon Patterson,
number 79 and 73, to get their blocks,
and what a beautiful drive.
- [Engram] My guy, like, went inside, and I looked
and all of sudden Judd just busted out of the lunge
of the O line, D line.
- Have it to work to a T, just the way we've designed it
and then blocked it all week, and explosive run,
and 20 plus yards, and getting it to the end zone,
and kinda setting the stage on what kinda afternoon
this is gonna be, you know, for our opponent.
- Now that's what I'm talking about.
That's the way to set the tone, great composure.
Hey, something good happen to us?
Play next play.
Something bad happen to us?
Play next play.
Keep believing.
Way to start this game off, son.
Way to start this game off.
- [Commentator] So fourth down for the Crimson Tide,
they will attempt another field goal, Alabama.
He's got the wind in his face, here's the kick,
it's a low-line drive and looks like it's gonna be no good!
- [Commentator] It looked like maybe there
on the right side of the defensive line,
somebody may have gotten a hand on it, David.
- [Commentator] Rebs lead 7-3, double fake,
he throws deep over the middle, one-on-one down there,
the pass is a jump ball caught by Stringfellow!
Oh my goodness!
- [Commentator] There's nobody back there,
they go up for it, and Stringfellow is just bigger,
and he comes down with it.
- We take a shot every now and then and our receivers
and quarterback were making big plays going down the field.
We caught 'em with a couple of play-actions,
so they didn't have their eyes in good places
when we caught it, they didn't have Engram
going wide open down the sideline.
- [Commentator] First and 10, there's the snap,
fakes a quick pitch, flies over the middle,
Engram is wide open, he has it in the 30,
see ya baby!
10, five, touchdown! Ole Miss!
- Well, we had already called a play previously,
when we tossed it to the back
and the inside mike linebacker pursued it hard.
And we said, "Man, if they're coming that fast,
"they're flowing that fast,
"next time we need to do the play-action off of it."
- The defense thought we were running the same run play
and I just slipped right by 'em.
- [Commentator] The closest guy to him was Richard Cross.
- [Commentator] While the ball's in the air,
you're saying, "Oh please catch it, oh please catch it,
"oh please catch it."
- So, once I scored, I just, like,
just took a breath and just enjoyed it.
I kinda just took the moment in and just turned around.
I love this place so much
and have had so many memories here,
so I had to make a couple more before I head out.
(rock music)
- [Commentator] This time Hurts is hammered!
Woah!
- [Commentator] Boom, it's loose ball!
- [Commentator] Picked up, John Youngblood, number 38.
- [Commentator] Loose ball, picked up
by the Rebels' Youngblood!
He's thundering to the house,
15, 10, five, touchdown!
Ole Miss!
- I saw him coming around the edge
and I already knew what time it was.
I saw him, and that guy is vicious.
- [Commentator] Marquis Haynes came off of that left side,
I mean shot out of a cannon.
- Hey, you got 'quis crossing out the edge,
Youngblood scoop and score,
they don't get no better than that.
The number one player in college football.
- Just like that verse that happened for us,
that verse had happened for Alabama.
So when that happened, we just capitalized on it.
You have to, to beat a number one team like that,
every chance you get, you have to score.
- [Commentator] I gotta believe that his dad,
who he lost over the offseason,
right after he was awarded that 38,
to wear the Chucky Mullins' number,
is looking down on Oxford, Mississippi
with a great big smile on his face today.
- [Commentator] You gotta believe it.
- That was for my dad.
I love y'all, thanks for coming.
For you dad, I love you.
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- [Narrator] As good as things were going for the Rebels,
no leave is safe in the SEC West.
Late in the first half, Alabama would make its charge.
- [Commentator] Gun formation for Jalen Hurts,
there's the snap, play-action, he wants to throw,
he's in the pocket, fires over the middle
and he's got his man, wide open and caught.
And still on his feet and spinning to the 28 yard line
is Calvin Ridley.
- [Commentator] Direct snap to Ridley, comes left.
Dives in, touchdown, Alabama.
That's an answer, isn't it?
- [Commentator] That's a gain of three,
it'll be fourth down, the Rebels will have to punt away.
Back to receive is Eddie Jackson, he's gonna take it
at the 16 yard line, try to bring it back.
He gets to the 25, the 30, still on his feet
to the sidelines, there's a flag down.
He'll head down the sidelines to the 30,
breaks the tackle, last diving effort,
he takes it in for the score.
- Mentally tough!
Mentally tough!
- They're just running down there and taking the play off.
Everybody gotta do their job.
- [Commentator] And both teams will go to the locker room.
Ole Miss leads at the half by a score of 24 to 17
as we go to all zeros here.
- We are the best team out there!
It's expected!
Don't worry about making history!
Just do your jobs!
We know we can win!
We done did it two years in a row,
we can do it three years in a row!
We've got the offense to do it!
We've got the defense to do it!
We've got the coaches that are gonna put us
in the right places!
We just gotta finish!
We gotta go finish!
That's all we gotta do.
- [Commentator] We're back here in Oxford,
about ready to start the second half here.
17th ranked Ole Miss, 24.
Number one Alabama, 17.
- [Commentator] Not much pressure,
here he comes from the backside!
Fumble!
Picked up by Alabama, did he cross the line?
Yes, he did!
- [Commentator] And just like that,
the Crimson Tide's defense comes through in a big way.
It's Da'Ron Payne, the noseguard.
He's looking to throw, in trouble and tries to throw
and throws it right into the hands,
an interception by one of the big guys for Alabama,
it's Jonathan Allen, Allen is motoring down
the right sidelines, he has a convoy of four guys there
and he is going to get into the endzone.
Touchdown, Alabama.
- Come on, baby.
Play next play.
- No matter what happens, good or bad, it's over now,
now get ready for the next play.
That was the message on the sidelines,
just try to get ready for the next snap.
- The defense was on the sidelines,
we were ready to go back out there, we're still fired up,
the coaches were still confident in us,
we were still confident and ready to get back out there
and give it our all.
- I believed we were gonna win.
That's my expectation of me, myself, our coaches
and our team, you gotta expect, you gotta want,
you gotta have that fire in you the entire game.
- [Commentator] Here comes pressure, throws to the endzone,
touchdown, far side.
Five yard strike to Stringfellow, touchdown Ole Miss.
- Hey Evan!
Onside, onside.
- [Commentator] And here it is and he's gonna kick it
and it's gonna bounce and go past the first guy
and it's rolling loose and on the ground
and Ole Miss recovers!
It's Van Jefferson, who ran past and caught it
right on the sidelines, we got the ball.
- [Commentator] Deep in the endzone...
Touchdown, A.J. Brown.
Third and inches.
Got it.
- [Commentator] Well it was almost a nightmare finish
for Alabama.
(dramatic music)
- Hear me and hear me good.
Listen closely.
Ain't no hanging heads on this.
Ain't no hanging heads.
Here's the lesson.
The lesson is, every single play in the course of an event
like that carries the same weight.
Every single one of them.
- Right before we go out every game, we locked arms.
Cause it's a brotherhood here in this room.
We build trust in each other, communicate, communicate,
we got this love for each other, man.
We have to finish.
We have to finish!
We have to!
We're the best team!
Offense and defense!
It showed first half!
Bro, we gotta finish!
For the love of my brother, for the love of my coach,
we have to finish!
We gotta finish!
- Really proud of a lot of things.
We're playing a lot of young kids in a lot of areas
and I thought that they competed and I'm excited about,
I'm excited about getting back out on the field
with those guys.
- With Georgia it's going to be another challenge.
You know, SEC play.
- In my opinion, the most important game of the year,
because it's the next one.
Another SEC battle, another chance to defend your home turf.
- We just have to stay and believe that we can
go out away and just win out.
- Let's just get our keys together and just finish.
After we finish, there won't be no problem who we face.
That's the expectation, that's the standard
and that's just what I expect from my teammates.