Ole Miss received even more recognition for their incredible upset of Alabama last night on ESPN’s annual award show, the ESPYS.
Ole Miss won the “Best Upset” award, beating out Georgia State’s NCAA Basketball tournament upset of Baylor and the Kansas City Royals’s improbable playoff run and American League Pennant win.
Bo Wallace and Senquez Golson accepted the award in Los Angeles.
The game was featured on the show College Gameday, which made its first ever trip to Oxford. Celebrity guest picker Katy Perry was the lone picker to select the Rebels as the winning team. The score was 23-17.
The Crimson Tide was ranked as the number three team in the nation before and the game, and eventually went on to finish at number four. The upset marked the first win for the Rebels against Alabama since 2003.
The Rebels’s win was one of the best games quarterback Wallace had in his career, completing 18 of 31 passes for 251 yards and three touchdowns and finding tight end Evan Engram for 3 catches for 71 yards, wide receiver Laquon Treadwell for 5 catches for 55 yards and a touchdown, and wideout Vince Sanders for 2 receptions for 41 yards and a touchdown.
For Alabama, running back T.J. Yeldon ran for 123 yards on 20 carries and receiver Amari Cooper caught 9 passes for 91 yards.
Ultimately, All-American Golson was able to seal the Rebels’s victory with an interception in the back of the end zone with less than a minute to go in the game.
