Stop Protecting Trinidad Chambliss — It's Making Them Worse | 24th Floor Replay

Ole Miss lost 52-28 at No. 21 Florida, and the number that explains it is 302 — Florida's rushing yards. Not the secondary everybody spent the offseason worrying about. The run game. Steven Willis joined Reuben and the crew on The 24th Floor during the bye week to put the loss in order: what it actually cost, what it didn't, why the first four plays of the game were the wrong four plays, and what Pete Golding should do with fourteen days before Nashville. The honest version: there have been exactly three teams in the last 30 years to win three ranked games in September — Ohio State 2006, LSU 2011, Clemson 2017 — and all three were national title teams. Ole Miss had two banked and the third one in front of them. They didn't get it. So this probably isn't a title-level team. But every goal is still on the board, and there are eight games left. IN THIS EPISODE: • Why the September test matters and why losing it didn't close a door • Pass-to-run, not run-to-pass — and the four running plays that started the game • Trinidad Chambliss went 25-of-34 for 298 and ran for 64 and two scores in a 24-point loss • Why you cannot wrap him in bubble wrap, even with Kewan Lacy already hurt • The bye-week fix is subtraction: cut the call sheet to 5-10 plays • Cat-on-cat, one-gap, see ball go get ball — and go heat up a true freshman • The Vanderbilt you're walking into is not the Vanderbilt you left