By David Ubben, Seth Emerson and Nick Baumgardner
Ole Miss coughed up a double-digit lead in the second half before wrestling back a 34-26 road win at No. 13 Oklahoma, bolstering its College Football Playoff chances while piercing the Sooners’ own Playoff hopes.
The win seemingly clears a path for the No. 8 Rebels (7-1, 4-1 SEC) to make the Playoff, as they don’t have another ranked team on their regular-season schedule. But it didn’t come easy on a rainy Saturday in Norman against a Sooners (6-2, 2-2) team looking for a signature, resume-building win as well.
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Ole Miss led 25-13 midway through the third quarter but gave up the lead in less than five minutes of game time, thanks to a 65-yard touchdown run from Oklahoma’s Xavier Robinson and a three-and-out that set up OU’s go-ahead touchdown drive late in the third quarter.
The Sooners led 26-25 after three quarters, but Ole Miss, which gave up a second-half lead at Georgia last week in its first loss of the season, responded this Saturday.
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