A few BYU players out on the field now. White pants and white shirts, stripes down the side of the legs and around the sleeves, the traditional white helmet with the white "Y" against the circular navy backdrop.
Rebels coming out now in the red shirts.
About 63 minutes to kickoff.
I'll have updates on Twitter and here at halftime and postgame. If you're not following me on Twitter @parrishalford, as you should be, the Twitter feed is over there on the right.
I will post a wrap-up, thoughts and observations, tomorrow morning.
We are in trouble if Bolden is out for the season. Davis looked big and slow. He is not a starting RB. I think Thomas is better than Davis.
I just wonder what the coaches were thinking starting Brunetti over Stoudt. Stoudt made some rookie mistakes but he looked 1000 times better than Brunetti.
The D looked better but not by much. Well I can't talk too bad about the D because they did keep us in the game and they played a lot more than they should have had to play.
Let's hope for a lot of improvement over the next couple of weeks.
Missed opportunities and mistakes are magnified in a one-point game. Rebels had a 13-0 lead and the ball with roughly 9 minutes left. BYU offense scored only one touchdown. Cougars got the winning points when linebacker blitzed, beat Ferbia Allen, hit Zack Stoudt, forced a fumble and ran 3 yards for a touchdown. The play came with 5:09 left.
Deep at tailback, Rebels top three all left the game with injury. Jeff Scott returned, Brandon Bolden and Enrique Davis did not. Bolden could have a fractured ankle, Houston Nutt said. No word on Davis.
No word on a QB starter moving forward, but once Stoudt entered for Barry Brunetti late in the second quarter, Brunetti did not return.
Ole Miss may have been the underdog and 'might' have claimed a moral victory by losing by 1 point, but the way the offense played means I will just be checking them out in the Sunday paper the rest of the year to see if they won or not.
Good luck the rest of the season.
Ole Miss 3, BYU 0
Some observations.
Rebels looking improved in the secondary. Blitzing the corners a good bit. PBU's by Temple and Pendleton, some nice downfield coverage by Sawyer.
Brandon Bolden is out, don't know if he'll be back. Jeff Scott went to the locker room earlier but came back and has played a big role. Absence of Bolden has gotten Devin Thomas into the game.
BYU has 102 yards of offense, Ole Miss has 93, more than half of it on a 49-yard drive for a field goal. Stoudt was pressured and wisely threw it away on third down, setting up Bryson Rose from 20.
BYU QB Jake Heaps is 11 for 22, 74 yards. BYU RB JJ Di Luigi 6 carries, 21 yards.
Ole Miss defense, burned often by big plays last year, has done a good job for two quarters of keeping the ball in front of them.
Bolden leads the Rebels with 4 carries, 21 yards.
Barry Brunetti is 2 for 3 passing, 4 yards; Stoudt 2 for 4, 21 yards. Scott has 3 carries, 16 yards and had a key gain of 16 on a screen pass on the scoring drive.