Ole Miss pulls away late, beats Auburn 45-15 at home

Ole Miss beat Auburn 45-15 at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and scored 21 points in the fourth quarter to turn a two-point game into a rout. The Rebels moved to 6-2. Auburn fell to 4-4.

Trinidad Chambliss, the player of the game, went 22 of 34 for 263 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. He added a rushing score. Nothing came in the first quarter. W. Echoles ran in from a yard out to make it 7-0, and Byrum Brown hit Chas Nimrod from 21 yards to cut it to 7-6 after a blocked PAT. Shekai Mills-Knight scored from a yard out to make it 14-6, and Auburn kicked a field goal before halftime to trail 14-9.

Luke Carneiro's 20-yard field goal made it 17-9. Brown ran in from 7 yards, but the two-point try failed, leaving it 17-15. Chambliss then ran 26 yards for a 24-15 lead. He threw scoring passes to C. Cunningham and Horatio Fields, and D. Knight added a 17-yard run. Chirp's Sim gave Ole Miss 67%, and it called this one.