Article: Arkansas drops Mississippi in seven-overtime game

Peter Ross
University Wire
11-05-2001
(Daily Mississippian) (U-WIRE) OXFORD, Miss. -- What started out as a normal SEC matchup Saturday night in Oxford turned into one of the craziest games, and the longest game in college football history, as Arkansas outlasted Ole Miss 58-56 in seven overtimes in front of 47,464 at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and a national television audience.

Trailing 58-50 in the seventh overtime, Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning found wide receiver Jessie Armstead open for a touchdown to trim the lead to 58-56. With the Rebels forced to go for two, tight end Doug Zeigler was stopped just short of the goal line to end the wild four hour and 15 minute game.

"We expected ...

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