OXFORD, Miss. – Georgia football players have experienced plenty of scenes of jubilation and celebration on football fields win after win after win during the last four seasons.

A field-storming isn’t something they’ve experienced at home or away.

Until Saturday evening in a rainy Vaught-Hemingway Stadium as No. 12 Ole Miss and their fans soaked up a 28-10 victory against them., that is

“It’s a little different,” junior safety Malaki Starks said. “That’s never happened to me before. I ran into a few people. I guess they ran into me. It sucks, man. It sucks being on the other side, it really does. It’s something I don’t ever want to feel again.”

Defensive lineman Nazir Stackhouse, a fifth-year senior, said the field storming “was definitely a funny experience to me. I’m used to talking to the guys after the game. Especially win or loss, I’m always used to talking to the other team saying good game, blah, blah, chopping it up. It was just hard me to communicate with some of the guys after they started storming the field.”

Somebody not named Alabama finally beat the Georgia football team for the first time since Florida in the 2020 season.

It wasn’t Nick Saban or the players he recruited but a former Saban assistant, Lane Kiffin and his Ole Miss team.

“A lot of credit got to Lane and his staff,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “Look, they really should be undefeated. I know people think that’s not true, but they really controlled the game against LSU, the whole game, and lost it, and they’re playing good football. And they outplayed us tonight, outcoached us, and did a great job.”

Smart told the players not to point fingers in the postgame locker room, Starks said.

Stackhouse said: “We’re not a pointing-fingers type of team. We know some guys struggled, but that’s why we’re a team. We keep each other up and we’re got each other’s back.”

Georgia held Ole Miss to two touchdowns and three field goals on five red zone trips, but that was hardly enough.

“We played really well sometimes and sometimes we didn’t,” Starks said. “We showed glimpses of what we can do. Just got to execute better at the end of the day to be able to help our offense now when they needed it and vice versa.”

Georgia is where Ole Miss, Alabama and LSU were when the day began, a two-loss team.

Beat Tennessee on Saturday and take care of business against Georgia Tech, and a 10-2 Bulldogs team stands a great chance to make the playoff.

In the meantime, Ole Miss’s social media had fun with a politically-connected post on X, formerly Twitter with a photo of quarterback Jaxson Dart and a teammate:

“THEY”RE EATING THE DAWGS”

This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: What Georgia football players thought of Ole Miss field storming