Before Pete Golding, there was Steve Fisher, who led the Michigan basketball team to the 1989 national championship as an interim head coach.

Ole Miss quarterbacks coach Joe Judge was complimentary of Austin Simmons for how he's handled getting benched for Trinidad Chambliss.

As Pete Golding prepares to make his head-coaching debut for Ole Miss in a high-stakes College Football Playoff game, he’s pushing the message that the Rebels are “focused on the mission, not the man.

Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss has been the talk of the town this season after making the move from Division II Ferris State to the Southeastern Conference. Chambliss, an All-American selection and National Champion at the Division II level, joined the Ole Miss Rebels last offseason as the backup quarterback behind Austin Simmons.

But the Rebels missed the Playoff, losing that Kentucky game and two others en route to a somewhat disappointing 9-3 regular season. With so much talent from that team gone, this season was expected to be a reset. Instead, Ole Miss went 11-1, with the only loss by 8 points at Georgia in mid-October.

A majority of members from Ole Miss' player leadership council were in favor of keeping head coach Lane Kiffin through the College Football Playoff, according to The Athletic's Christopher Kamrani and Joe Rexrode.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/olemiss as Ole Miss Football's Pete Golding Compares Trinidad Chambliss to Alabama Legend. Ole Miss Rebels quarterback Trinidad Chambliss has stolen the spotlight this fall after taking control of the offense in Week 3 and never looking back as the program's signal-caller.