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1 - Matt Corral is at the top of another list

Matt Corral is the lone quarterback standing.

Now that the Arkansas game and the incessant 2020 highlights of his six-pick afternoon are out of the way, maybe it’s all about this season and the stats the Ole Miss starting quarterback is putting up.

Corral, per Matt Hinton, has the longest active streak without an interception among FBS quarterbacks.

His last interception came versus LSU in 2020, 201 passing attempts ago, a run that’s spread across six full games. During that span, he’s thrown 16 touchdowns.

It’s a stark improvement considering Corral, again per Hinton, was the first quarterback in a decade to throw more than a dozen interceptions with fewer than 300 attempts. He threw 14 in 282 attempts during the regular season.

Out of 150 throws this season, PFF College has Corral at only two turnover-worthy decisions on the season.

For comparison, Alabama quarterback Bryce Young has five turnover-worthy plays this season and has thrown an interception in three straight games. He’s up to 198 attempts on the year after throwing the ball 56 times in the loss to Texas A&M.

Nick Suss of the Clarion-Ledger dove into the online game logs that only go back to 1998, and the six straight games without an interception are the most by an Ole Miss quarterback during that time.

2 - Caden Costa has a short memory

Caden Costa’s day got off to a rough start on Saturday, with the freshman placekicker missing his first extra point against Arkansas.

But, at a position where it’s required, Costa had a short memory. During the Rebels’ 52-51 shootout win over the Razorbacks, Costa converted his other five point-after attempts and laced a 50-yard field goal that would have been good from 60 yards.

Ole Miss got back on schedule with a two-point conversion after its second touchdown, and Costa’s 50-yard effort put the Rebels up 10 points at the time in the second half. It’s the first 50-yard field goal made for Ole Miss since Andrew Ritter in 2013.

Costa is 5-for-6 on the season with field goals and has converted 26 of 28 of his extra-point attempts, handling the kicking duties other than Cale Nation attempting the first extra point of the season in the win over Louisville.

The Mandeville, Louisiana, native hit three field goals against Louisville including a 47 yarder and a 26-yard field goal versus Austin Peay.

He has seven touchbacks on 36 kickoffs, and one has gone out of bounds.

Costa is a weapon for Ole Miss, even in year one, and it gives the Rebels options anywhere inside the 40-yard line or so, though Ole Miss is fond of going for it when possible.

One bad kick not bleeding into the next is an important trait for Costa, and he’s shown it well so far this season.

3 - Ole Miss needs more defensive depth

Tennessee averages 79 plays per game this season, running tempo with a similar urgency as the Rebels.

With Arkansas running up 95 players versus the Ole Miss defense a week ago, there's an extra attention on defensive depth this week, as Ole Miss tries to limit snap counts into workable numbers.

AJ Finley and Otis Reese both played all 95 snaps, and linebacker Chance Campbell played 86 snaps against the Razorbacks. Sam Williams and Deane Leonard played 75 and 74 snaps, respectively, in the game.

"Well that was not good," Kiffin said. "A lot of guys played in the 70s and some in the 80s, which is not good no matter what, especially with the tempo, and then when you're up tempo there's not a lot of delay between the series and we were a little bit big-little after the first couple drivers of the game on some quick scores. We gotta play more guys, and guys have to give us more confidence that when they play they'll play well because they wore down and that was evident.”

KD Hill also was forced into massive snaps, playing 63 plays at nose tackle.

The options aren't plentiful, but Ole Miss may lean on some new faces to give breathers at times. Trey Washington is a good example of that. The freshman played 52 snaps and had nine tackles against Arkansas.