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Akeem Judd rushed 26 times for 139 yards and a touchdown, and Ole Miss scored 21 straight points in the second quarter to earn a 37-27 football victory over Georgia Southern Saturday afternoon at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Matt Breida had 100 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries, and Myles Campbell caught four passes for 121 yards, the most for an Eagle in six seasons, and a score. Kevin Ellison rushed for 54 yards and a score and threw for 134 and a touchdown. Chad Kelly threw for 226 yards and a touchdown and ran for two scores for Ole Miss (4-5) before leaving the game in the third quarter. Evan Engram caught four passes for 75 yards and a touchdown, and Damore’ea Stringfellow had five receptions for 66 yards. Trailing by 10 points at halftime, Georgia Southern (4-5) made it a one-possession game twice in the second half on a pair of field goals by Younghoe Koo, but the Eagles could not get the equalizing touchdown. The story Trailing by a touchdown, Georgia Southern got its first turnover of the game when Darius Jones Jr. was credited with an interception of Ole Miss backup quarterback Jason Pellerin. After a 38-yard field goal by Koo made the score 34-27, Pellerin threw deep to A.J. Brown but Jones ripped the ball away, going to his knee in the process, to give the Eagles the ball at their own 22-yard line with 11:10 remaining. The Rebel defense came up big and forced a three-and-out, and the Ole Miss offense moved the ball to the GS 21-yard line with the help of a 15-yard personal foul penalty on Georgia Southern as the game began to get chippy on both sides. The Eagle defense forced an incompletion on third down, and Ole Miss settled for a Gary Wunderlich 38-yard field goal to make it a 10-point game with 7:14 to go. Georgia Southern moved the ball to its own 40-yard line, but on fourth-and-4, Breeland Speaks tipped Ellison’s pass at the line of scrimmage to give the ball back to the Rebels with 3:49 to play. Pellerin converted a fourth down with a 4-yard run, and Ole Miss was able to keep the ball and hang onto the win. The game began to turn in the second quarter after the Eagles opened a 21-10 lead on a 68-yard touchdown run by Breida. The senior found a hole up the middle and raced untouched for the score and the longest touchdown run of the season for the Eagles. With momentum in hand, Georgia Southern tried the surprise onside kick, but Ole Miss senior Hunter Thurley was there to make the recovery. The Rebels took advantage of the short field and after completing a 35-yard pass to Stringfellow, Kelly ran it in from five yards out to trim the lead to 21-17. Ole Miss got the ball back at its own 40-yard line after a GS punt and gobbled up 60 yards in 1:26, taking the lead on a 9-yard touchdown run by Judd. The Rebel defense forced a three-and-out, and Kelly hit Engram for a 38-yard touchdown pass on the third play from scrimmage, capping a 21-point surge in just over eight minutes and giving Ole Miss a 31-21 advantage at halftime. Georgia Southern came out of the gates firing on all cylinders and rolled up 113 yards of offense while taking a 14-3 lead in the first quarter. Ellison found Campbell for a 29-yard touchdown pass and ran for a 9-yard score on the quarterback keeper. The second touchdown was set up when Malik Henry blocked an Ole Miss punt to give the Eagles the ball near midfield. Quotables Head coach Tyson Summers Overall "We played extremely hard and did a lot of things we can be very proud of. We never feel good about a loss in any way shape or form, but we made vast improvement from last week to this week." On the offense "We tried to cut back a little bit and get good at the things we do. The offensive line played by far their best game, our running backs did a much better job and Kevin (Ellison) did a great job managing the game." On the onside kick "We all came here to win today, and I thought it was the right time to try the surprise onside and that we had a great shot at it, given the looks we were seeing." On Thursday’s game "We have the opportunity to go 7-5 and make a bowl game and finish this thing the right way, and that’s what we’ll be looking to do." Sophomore safety Joshua Moon On the Ole Miss offense "Honestly, I thought practice this week getting ready for it was harder than the game so our coaches did a great job preparing us for the tempo and getting us ready." Senior running back Matt Breida "The O-line stepped up to the challenge going against an SEC defensive line. I feel liked we made a lot of improvement this week on offense and defense, and we are ready to try to run the table." Next up Georgia Southern returns to Sun Belt Conference play when the Eagles play host to UL Lafayette Thursday night in Paulson Stadium. It’s Homecoming, kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. and the game will be televised nationally on ESPNU.