No. 19 Ole Miss set a number of college passing and receiving information in its 63-31 demolition of Arkansas on Saturday.
Jordan Watkins racked up 254 receiving yards, surpassing the 247 Jonathan Mingo amassed versus Vanderbilt in 2022. He additionally hauled in 5 landing catches, which broke the file set simply final season by teammate Tre Harris towards Mercer.
Quarterback Jaxson Dart threw for 515 yards and 6 touchdowns, turning into the second quarterback in SEC historical past to throw for that many yards and that many scores in a single sport. Missouri‘s Drew Lock first achieved the feat on Sept. 2, 2017 versus Missouri State.
Dart’s 515 yards set an Ole Miss file for many passing yards in a single sport. His six landing passes ties Eli Manning and Matt Corral for essentially the most in a sport at school historical past.
With 542 whole yards (together with a team-high 47 yards dashing), Dart additionally set Ole Miss single-game and profession information in that class. He surpassed Archie Manning’s mark of 540 yards, set in 1969 towards Alabama. And he overtook Bo Wallace’s 10,478 profession yards by reaching 10,805 whole yards throughout his three seasons in Oxford.
Dart achieved two extra milestones in Saturday’s victory. Together with his twenty fifth win as an Ole Miss beginning quarterback, he handed Eli Manning and Wallace, who each had 24. He additionally overtook Jordan Ta’amu and Chad Kelly for many profession 300-yard passing video games with 13. (Dart’s third profession 400-yard sport put him one behind Ta’amu.)
Including to the myriad information set on Saturday, the Rebels’ 63 factors tied the varsity file in an SEC sport, which was beforehand set in 1979 towards Vanderbilt.
Now at 3-2 within the SEC (7-2 general), Ole Miss is tied for fourth place with Vanderbilt and Alabama.
