Lucas Carneiro moved into the Ole Miss career top ten on Saturday and not one person mentioned it. From the postgame notes at Vanderbilt: 7-for-7 on extra points, giving him 78 for his Ole Miss career -- inside the all-time top ten and sitting ninth in school history. Then a 42-yarder in the fourth quarter, which makes a field goal in 10 straight games. What that buys Pete Golding: the 40-yard line is a scoring position instead of a punting decision. Ole Miss has scored on all 20 red-zone trips this season and is one of 11 teams in the country at 100 percent. The quiet half of that number is a kicker nobody thinks about. Segment two is the second half in Nashville. Ole Miss led 42-3 at the break and won 52-17, which means the second half was Vanderbilt 14, Ole Miss 10 -- and nothing at all in the third quarter. Against a Missouri team that gets better as the game goes along, a quarter of nothing is how you lose a close one. The honest counterweight: career extra-point totals are longevity, not greatness, and you cannot read much into garbage-time snaps from backups. Is Carneiro the most underrated Rebel? Comments. Locked On Ole Miss Hits -- quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy. #OleMiss #HottyToddy #RebelNation #SEC #CollegeFootball
Lucas Carneiro moved into the Ole Miss career top ten on Saturday and not one person mentioned it.
From the postgame notes at Vanderbilt: 7-for-7 on extra points, giving him 78 for his Ole Miss career -- inside the all-time top ten and sitting ninth in school history. Then a 42-yarder in the fourth quarter, which makes a field goal in 10 straight games.
What that buys Pete Golding: the 40-yard line is a scoring position instead of a punting decision. Ole Miss has scored on all 20 red-zone trips this season and is one of 11 teams in the country at 100 percent. The quiet half of that number is a kicker nobody thinks about.
Segment two is the second half in Nashville. Ole Miss led 42-3 at the break and won 52-17, which means the second half was Vanderbilt 14, Ole Miss 10 -- and nothing at all in the third quarter. Against a Missouri team that gets better as the game goes along, a quarter of nothing is how you lose a close one.
The honest counterweight: career extra-point totals are longevity, not greatness, and you cannot read much into garbage-time snaps from backups.
Is Carneiro the most underrated Rebel? Comments.
Locked On Ole Miss Hits -- quick takes on the Rebels every weekday. Subscribe and hit the bell. Hotty Toddy.
#OleMiss #HottyToddy #RebelNation #SEC #CollegeFootball