An 11:00 a.m. kickoff versus the Texas Tech Red Raiders
meant that not only the eyes of Texas were upon the Rebels,
but also the eyes of the nation.
On the first Saturday of the season,
Ole Miss would have the spotlight to start the day.
Let's go, lead us baby, lead us let's go.
Lead us, lead us, let's go.
Played a bunch of football before, lead us let's go.
Downhill RB's, downhill, downhill.
It's game time baby.
Prime time game time.
All the way from Oxford to Houston baby, let's get it.
You know it boy, now we batting.
Hey this one is going to be special right here.
Now is your time, wait on nothing, make every play you can,
play your ass off, get your eyes on your season.
Hey, most importantly have fun, let's go.
Come on.
Good luck
LBs on three.
One, two, three.
LBs.
Just like we talked about last night.
It's the time to put our life's work on that field.
But you know what else?
It's time for talk is over, the time for talking,
the time for fear and worry and doubt it's over, put it behind you,
because right now it's time to put the damn ball down.
You want to put it down in Oxford?
Put it down in Oxford.
You want to put it down in Houston?
Put the damn ball down in Houston.
11:00 in the morning, 12:00 at night, it don't matter.
Put the damn ball down.
[Cheering]
[Hitting and grunting]
Quick pass out to far side, it's going to be caught by Lodge, he's –
Thank you, go five, go five, go five, first down all day, let's go.
We're going to put seven up fast.
Get the back and then put seven more.
Mississippi is known as the hospitality state
and Mississippi native D.K. Metcalf, would waste no time
properly introducing himself.
Down field and caught.
Striking quickly D.K. Metcalf with the (inaudible) early.
Oh yeah!
[Cheering]
That's how you get started quick, I told you it was coming to you.
Excellent throw by Jordan Ta'amu, puts it out in front.
D.K. Metcalf haves to extend his arms, reach out,
that's too easy right there partner.
And they raised the belt, NWO Nasty Wide Outs.
This is what we do.
Give them what they want.
They begged for this.
They want this, we'll give them what they want.
The quick strike would set the tone for the Rebels in the first quarter,
unleashing a red hot flurry of points from the team in the snowy white unies.
Alright Jay Jones, hit one.
Here's Jones on the return, Jones on his feet, nobody to beat.
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Take that Red Raider Nation.
How's that for an answer?
94 on the floor, touchdown.
Ain't going to kick to him no more.
They tried the first time and you see what happened.
They ain't going to kick him no more.
He caught that one baby, he had – he was smiling when he got that.
Hey that is a bad man, you know where he from?
He from Texas, you know, we doing this, we Mississippi made,
hey we here now, we here, we're in a hard town, we (inaudible)
As good as the offense was in the first quarter,
it was at its best when faced with a do or die situation.
Hey, get a touchdown, let's go.
Finish, run your feet.
Fourth down coming up and one to go,
they're going to lead the offense on the field.
Come on Scottie, come on Scottie.
Come on Scottie, come on.
Texas Tech was really good in short yardage situations last year, not this time.
Great juke, oh he hit it with the sauce.
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Touchdown Mississippi.
That's my roommate, that's my roommate baby.
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Flag.
Complete, what a catch by Lodge.
Hey, am wood, am wood, am wood.
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Coach, scored I think on six of seven offensive possessions.
How did you feel about the first half?
Pretty good, need to be a little bit more efficient in the red zone.
You know, I want to come away with touchdowns not field goals.
But proud of Luke Logan for stepping in there and making them.
Thanks for your time.
Yep, thank you.
No body outside this building still gives us a chance.
You understand that?
Hey, but guess what?
We're all we got.
We're all we need.
Hey, one more half guys.
Hey, give me everything you damn got for one half.
Let's go.
Family on three.
One, two, three.
Family.
You all know we didn't play our best in the first half, you all know that.
Let's give them what they want.
Let's give them what the hell they want.
And there's a handoff to Phillips and he's got some room up the middle,
45, 50, if he can beat him he's gone,
to the 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, touchdown Ole Miss.
I've never seen Scottie smile, now he's smiling though.
And here's a great run by Phillips bursting up the middle, touchdown.
Right on boy, right on boy, right on boy.
There you go Phil, there you go.
65 yards for Scottie Phillips.
Hey 2-2 Red Out, Red Out, Red Out, Red out.
Passed down field, wide open, caught and in the end zone, touchdown A.J. Brown.
New year, new us.
Hey, hey, Arthur Brown.
The Nasty Wide Outs strike again, NWO.
Hey let's not, you know, over look or under sell the fact
that Brown is thought to be by many the number one receiver
picked in the draft in April.
As well as Ole Miss was playing, the defense still had their hands full
with a dynamic Texas Tech offense.
Run a little receiver screen complete for the first down and then some,
Wesley taken a shot here and a great catch, who else?
The long and rangy Vasher with another first down.
Handoff, and touchdown ruled.
Excellent job with the vision and the ability to cut back against the grain
and get his offense a much needed touchdown.
They didn't earn that; we gave it to them.
Get the long looks off your faces and let's go.
Hey that's what we bid for, adversity.
Heading into the fourth quarter,
it was the job of the defense to step up
and force the Red Raiders off the field.
I just want to let you all know, hey if they don't score they can't win.
If they don't score they can't win.
Hey, it's impossible.
Start of the fourth quarter, a ten-point deficit for Texas Tech,
gambling here on fourth down and five.
Bowman up top, contact.
No flag and Ole Miss will take over on downs.
[Cheering]
Hey, that a way seniors, that a way seniors, that a way seniors.
That time you all were smiling, you're too ugly to frown, I like it.
Good job baby.
Third and seven, Bowman in the end zone.
Incomplete, he couldn't come down with it.
Broken up at the last minute.
Texas Tech will have fourth down and seven from the 14-yard line of Ole Miss.
There's the snap, back to throw, fires nearside,
batted down at the five-yard line, a beautiful play.
I swear to God that's four PPU's I better get every single snap.
Every single snap.
You stack already.
Although the stat sheet at the end of the day
was a thing of beauty for the Rebs,
the victory formation and kneel down dictated the most important stat
in the ever so sweet category of undefeated in 2018.
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I just want to know, just want to know (inaudible)
I just want to know man, we got a little (inaudible)
[Cheering]
Came out, executed.
Going back home, signed off, go Rebs.
It went perfect, but we played pretty good.
I felt like we played fast, not it's time to go get ready for next week.
Finally getting it out of the way, you know,
my nerves is all wrecked up until tonight.
We came out and fought for each other and got the dub man.
Now we're going back to the best city in the world;
Oxford, Mississippi here we come.
I'm glad we got the W.
And we had little mistakes but we got to clean that up
and get ready for week two, but right now we're going to celebrate that W.
All I got to say is I'm feeling good.
Man, he ain't going to talk to you because I'm going to talk to you.
Listen here, 22, 200-plus yards, what all can you ask for?
Just hand the ball off Coach, we can do it both ways.
Hey, let's just take it one game at a time, man.
We get 12 of these, let's cherish each and every one of them
and take it one at a time.
Alright, because there's going to be a bunch of things that we got to get fixed.
Alright, so let's have that mindset coming back on Sunday.
Let's enjoy this tonight and then let's fix the things that need to be fixed.
And then let's be even better next week in front of our home crowd.
Hey, that's one thing we need to do a better job is protecting our home turf.
Alright, let's make sure we got that in our mind.
Hey, I love you guys, great win.
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