Ole Miss Pounds Presbyterian 48-0

OXFORD, Miss. (PC SID) — The Presbyterian College football team dropped its final Football Bowl Subdivision game on Saturday, falling to No. 11 Ole Miss on Saturday afternoon in a 48-0 result. The Blue Hose move to 5-5 on the year and head to Gardner-Webb next Saturday for a noon kickoff in the team‘s regular season finale on the American Sports Network. Ole Miss improves to 8-2 and play at Arkansas in two weeks. Ole Miss led 35-0 at halftime en route to the win but scored only 13 points in the second half. PC‘s offense could not find much space against the country‘s best scoring defense, never entering the red zone despite holding the ball for 33:33 of game time. PC‘s Ed Britt (Greensboro, N.C.) led PC with a career-high 13 tackles and an interception of early-season Heisman Trophy candidate Bo Wallace. Donelle Williams (Starke, Fla.) added 10 tackles and Blake Roberts (Cumming, Ga.) led the Blue Hose on offense with 49 rushing yards on eight carries after entering the game in the fourth quarter. The Blue Hose held the Rebels to one score on three trips to the red zone. Freshman defensive back Steve Osondu (McDonough, Ga.) blocked a 37-yard field goal in the third quarter for the first blocked kick of his career. Ole Miss did most of its damage on the ground, rushing for 402 yards with Jordan Wilkins (171 yards) and Mark Dodson (128) breaking the century mark. Quarterback Bo Wallace went 11-for-15 through the air for 140 yards and two touchdowns. The Rebels wasted little time scoring as Bo Wallace connected with Vince Sanders down the right side for a 66-yard touchdown on the offense‘s second play, putting the home side ahead by seven just 40 seconds into the game. Ole Miss blocked PC‘s first punt on a mishandled snap—the first blocked punt of Stephen Doar‘s career—but the PC defense answered and forced a 42-yard field goal attempt that missed wide. Doar made up for the block on his next try, a 49-yard punt that pinned the Rebels on their own four-yard line. Ole Miss marched down the field for another touchdown as Wallace found Sanders again for a 23-yard score with 1:21 left in the quarter. Jordan Wilkins ripped off a 50-yard run on the drive‘s first play to help set up the eventual touchdown. Early in the second, Shonquille Byers (Gaffney, S.C.) nearly intercepted a fourth-down pass at the goal line but did enough to break up the play and get the ball back for the Blue Hose with a turnover on downs. Byers set a new career-best with seven totals and two pass breakups. After a stalled PC drive, Ole Miss struck again on the first play of a drive as Mark Dodson ran 65 yards up the middle to put the home side up 21-0 with 10:51 left in the second quarter. Ole Miss then picked off a tipped pass to set up a nine-yard Bo Wallace touchdown run for a 28-0 lead less than a minute later. Britt gave PC a boost by hauling in an interception on a Bo Wallace deep pass, marking the junior‘s third of the season—the second-most in a PC Division I season. On the next drive, Heys McMath (Savannah, Ga.) hit Tobi Antigha (Tampa, Fla.) down the right side for 32 yards on a perfectly-thrown ball and PC‘s longest play of the game. McMath finished with a 9-for-17 line for 59 yards while Antigha led the Blue Hose receiving corps, grabbing three catches for 33 yards. Ole Miss scored once more before halftime as Mark Dodson found another hole through the middle and ran for a 62 yard touchdown. Ole Miss took its 35-0 lead into the locker room at the break 70 seconds later. The Rebels scored on their first drive of the second half, with backup quarterback Devante Kincade leading Ole Miss 71 yards down the field and finding Derrick Jones for a 31-yard touchdown. Kincade completed seven of his eight passes for 70 yards and rushed for 34 yards. Ole Miss tacked on a final touchdown as Jordan Wilkins went in on a 73-yard run with 10:01 left in the game. The Rebels missed the extra point to reach their final tally, 48-0. PC committed only three penalties for 25 yards and Kaleb Griffin (Florence, S.C.) entered the game at quarterback in the fourth quarter, going one-for-three for eight yards.