Georgia routs Ole Miss as Northwest, Belhaven and William Carey win titles

Mississippi news and sports rundown for Sunday, November 8, 2026. Reporting window: after November 7 at 4:45 p.m. CST through November 8 at 4:45 p.m. CST (2026-11-07T22:45:00Z, 2026-11-08T22:45:00Z].

Georgia ended Ole Miss’ long home winning streak in emphatic fashion Saturday, while three Mississippi teams secured conference championships. Northwest won a football final in the last two minutes, Belhaven claimed another women’s soccer crown, and William Carey took the men’s soccer title. Jackson State and Alcorn also won SWAC games. This edition draws on original reports published in the fixed window by Sports Mississippi; MS News Group’s only in-window archive entry was the previous rundown.

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Georgia hands Ole Miss a decisive home loss

No. 2 Georgia beat No. 10 Ole Miss 42-7 in Oxford, ending the Rebels’ 16-game home winning streak. Georgia scored on four of its first five possessions and led 28-0 at halftime. After an Ole Miss fumble set up another touchdown, Shekai Mills-Knight scored the Rebels’ lone touchdown on an 8-yard run. Georgia answered with a 65-yard scoring pass. Trinidad Chambliss finished with 170 passing yards, and Horatio Fields had eight catches for 96 yards. Ole Miss fell to 6-3 overall and 4-3 in the SEC; Georgia improved to 8-1 and 6-1. The game report also lists Oklahoma as Ole Miss’ next opponent on November 14.

Northwest retakes the lead to win MACCC championship

Northwest Mississippi Community College beat Hinds 33-29 in Senatobia for its third straight MACCC and Region 23 football titles. Hinds erased a 26-7 fourth-quarter deficit with 22 unanswered points and led 29-26 with 2:14 remaining. Noah Gillon then found Clydarrien Peters for a 24-yard touchdown with 1:19 left, and the Rangers stopped Hinds’ final drive. Gillon threw for 295 yards and two touchdowns. TyAnthony Elmore caught 10 passes for 135 yards and set Northwest’s single-season receptions record with 70. The Northwest championship account says the Rangers improved to 9-2 and remain in contention for a national playoff place; it does not report a berth as secured.

Jackson State takes SWAC East lead

Jackson State defeated Mississippi Valley State 38-7 in Jackson and moved into the SWAC East Division lead with two weeks left in the season. Jared Lockhart passed for 299 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another score. The Tigers led 17-7 at halftime, then broke the game open with two Lockhart touchdown passes in the third quarter, including an 81-yard play to Jency Riley Jr. Dezmond Ray scored the Delta Devils’ touchdown on a 5-yard run and finished with 65 rushing yards. The Jackson State game report lists the Tigers at 7-2 overall and 4-2 in conference play; Valley fell to 3-7 and 2-4.

Alcorn overcomes early deficit against Florida A&M

Alcorn State trailed Florida A&M 14-0 in the first quarter, then scored 38 of the game’s final 44 points to win 38-20 in Lorman. Jaylon Tolbert threw for 314 yards and four touchdowns, three of them to Malachi Augustus. Augustus had 171 receiving yards, including a 92-yard score that began the comeback and a 63-yard touchdown after Florida A&M had tied the game at 17. Alcorn gained 546 total yards and held the Rattlers to 59 rushing yards. The Alcorn account puts the Braves at 6-4 overall and 4-2 in SWAC play.

Millsaps wins on a late two-point play

Millsaps rallied from a 29-14 third-quarter deficit to beat Berry 30-29. After a long Tameron Patterson touchdown run and two-point conversion cut the gap, Grant Bizjack found Davis Dare for a late touchdown. On the decisive conversion, Bizjack pitched to Patterson, who passed to Dare; Dare then found Sean Johnson for the go-ahead points. Berry’s 51-yard field-goal attempt fell short as time expired. Patterson rushed for a career-high 133 yards and two touchdowns. The Millsaps report says the Majors are 7-2 and 5-1 in Southern Athletic Association play, still in the conference playoff race.

Belhaven repeats as women’s soccer champion

Belhaven beat Huntingdon 2-0 in Huntsville, Alabama, to win a second consecutive Collegiate Conference of the South women’s soccer title and the league’s automatic NCAA Division III tournament berth. After a scoreless first half, Alexis Whiting scored in the 55th minute and Abby Jordan added another goal just over seven minutes later. Goalkeeper Addi Roberts made two saves for Belhaven’s ninth shutout of the season. The championship report says Roberts was named tournament MVP after her work in Friday’s semifinal and Saturday’s final.

William Carey men capture SSAC soccer title

William Carey scored twice in the opening 19 minutes and held on to beat Faulkner 2-1 in Montgomery, Alabama, for its fifth SSAC men’s soccer tournament title and first since 2021. Souleymane Balde scored from midfield in the 11th minute, and Fabian Arroyo doubled the lead eight minutes later. Faulkner pulled one back before halftime and pressed in the second half, but goalkeeper Pablo Diez finished with eight saves, including a stop on an 85th-minute penalty kick. The William Carey title report lists the NAIA national tournament opening rounds for November 19–21.

Ole Miss rifle sets program air rifle mark

No. 7 Ole Miss beat No. 6 TCU 4,745-4,724 in Fort Worth and set a program air rifle record with a team score of 2,393. The Rebels led by three points after smallbore, then widened the gap in air rifle. Regan Diamond and Dinh each shot 599 in that discipline, and Jordan de Jesus and Audrey Gogniat tied for the highest aggregate score at 1,190. The Ole Miss rifle report says the Rebels are 8-0 overall and 5-0 in the PRC, with a visit to No. 1 West Virginia scheduled for November 14.

Southern Miss enters Sun Belt soccer tournament

Southern Miss’ women are scheduled to face top-seeded James Madison in Monday’s Sun Belt tournament quarterfinal in Foley, Alabama. The eighth-seeded Golden Eagles clinched their place on the final day of the regular season with a 1-0 win at ULM. They finished 7-6-4 overall and 4-4-2 in league play, with four conference wins and 14 points that the tournament preview calls program highs since Southern Miss joined the Sun Belt. James Madison won the teams’ September meeting 5-0. Monday’s result remains undecided at this reporting cutoff.

Featured image: Ole Miss football coach Pete Golding in an earlier game. File photo from the MS News Group media library, credited to Ole Miss Athletics. It does not depict Saturday’s Georgia game.