The Ole Miss Rebels pulled together an upset against the No. 14 Mississippi State Bulldogs in the 90th annual Egg Bowl on Thursday night. After a year of ups and downs, head coach Matt Luke and his team entered the evening with a chip on their shoulder and a point to prove.
“This wasn’t my fourteenth Egg Bowl, this was my forty-first Egg Bowl,” Luke said. “And to the people of the state of Mississippi, this is the most important game of the year.”
After just missing DaMarkus Lodge down the sideline on the first play of the game, quarterback Jordan Ta’amu found Starkville-native A.