The Georgia Bulldogs will play their biggest game of the season on Saturday night against the Ole Miss Rebels in Oxford, a place where Kirby Smart has never won in his career at Georgia.

Smart will be hoping the third time is the charm at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, but this is quite the challenge against an Ole Miss team which is as strong as anyone the Bulldogs have faced to this point in the season. On top of that, Trinidad Chambliss and the Rebels defeated Georgia last season in the Sugar Bowl, so they know they are capable of giving this defense problems.

Here are the three keys for the Bulldogs to make sure that does not happen again:

The reality of facing a quarterback the level of Chambliss in college football in 2026 is that shutting him down is simply out of the question. Chambliss will make plays because he is a generational talent at the position, but what absolutely cannot happen is what he did in New Orleans to end Georgia's season.

Chambliss absolutely torched this defense by escaping the pocket and making jaw-dropping play after jaw-dropping play on a night where he may have had the best game of his career. There is no way the Dawgs will be able to completely shut it down, but they need to not allow Chambliss to win the game with his heroics again. If Georgia can reduce him to an average night, that would be huge.

Stockton had a dominating start to the season, but the last two games including the loss against Auburn and even the win against Georgia, he has just looked a little bit off and the offense has been missing a gear. He was not the reason the Dawgs lost to Ole Miss last time, but when the time came to make game-changing plays, he was not able to.

This time around in order to earn a win like this on the road, Stockton is going to have to be a whole lot better than he has been the last two games. Get him going early with quick hitters and the run game and he could have a big day. A big day is what will be needed to win.

As simple as it sounds, this may be the biggest difference maker in who is able to win this game. The Bulldogs lost the turnover battle against Auburn and it lost them the game, and Texas was able to beat Ole Miss because they forced interceptions from Chambliss.

Stockton needs to be able to take care of the football and the Bulldogs simply must take the football away. If they can do that, they are going to win this game.