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Sugar Bowl: Treadwell, Kelly lead Ole Miss to win vs Oklahoma State

Graham: This is a tough game to pick because it hinges on whether Rudolph is able to play.

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Ole Miss hasn’t been to the Sugar Bowl since 1970.


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“It was a bucket list item for me”, said Rebels coach Hugh Freeze, a native Mississippian. “They really prepared well – I was super confident all day”. Coach Freeze says if they don’t and they do lose, it won’t be because they didn’t have enough time to stop Oklahoma State’s two quarterback system. That team will never play together again, but if four years from now Ole Miss is continuing to rise in the college football world, the aforementioned players will be what started the change. It’s only the second time in 44 years that the Rebels have made it to 10 wins. On Thursday, Houston beat Florida State by 14 – the closest of the six – while, in the playoff semifinals, Clemson beat Oklahoma by 20 and Alabama shut out Michigan State by 38.


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Former Ole Miss standout Raymond Brown made Rebel gridiron history in the 1958 Sugar Bowl, when he guided the Rebels to a 39-7 win over Texas at Tulane Stadium on January, 1st, 1958.

When asked about the play, Treadwell said, “We have worked on that play a lot”. With time running out in the second quarter, Ole Miss pulled out another trick play near the Oklahoma State goal line.

Oklahoma State is making its second trip to the Allstate Sugar Bowl and its first since the 1945 team completed its ideal 9-0 season with a 33-13 win over St. Mary’s (Calif.) in New Orleans.

“I just look at it as this is going to be the D-line next year, so lets see what I can do and what we can do without 5”, he said.

After an incompletion on first down, Kelly hit junior tight end Evan Engram on a corner route for 27 yards. Here are the five things to watch in the Sugar Bowl.

Ole Miss fans roared and the “S-E-C!”

Mason Rudolph ranks 13th nationally with 3,591 passing yards, while J.W. Walsh ranks 36th nationally with 144 points responsible for, despite having only 138 total offense attempts this season (1.04 points per total offense attempt). Two plays later, Treadwell caught a 10-yard pass from Kelly to make it 24-3.

Northwestern (10-3) sputtered offensively and was unable to keep up with the stronger, faster Vols defensively in falling short on a bid to finish with a school-record 11 victories.

Prior to that, junior receiver Laquon Treadwell caught a pair of touchdowns from Kelly for gains of 34 and 10 yards. In the month of November, Kelly completed 65.3 percent of his passes with seven touchdowns and no interceptions, all while rushing for at least 74 yards in each game.

The Rebel Walk asked Kelly if he knew he passed Tim Tebow, Cam Newton and Dak Prescott for total yards in a season in the SEC.

“I think anytime you get a throwing team like that, anytime you can stop the run for some reason it just shuts them down”, Ole Miss defensive coordinator Dave Wommack said.

MS wide receiver Laquon Treadwell (1) pulls in a touchdown reception in front of Oklahoma State cornerback Kevin Peterson (1) in the first half of the Sugar Bowl college football game in New Orleans, Friday, Jan. 1, 2016.

Walsh scored the final points of the game on an 8-yard rushing touchdown with 3:03 left, a score that trimmed the deficit to the final margin of 48-20.

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Ole Miss started moving down the field early with a series of quick passes to get a couple first downs on the Rebels’ first possession of the game.

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