No. 25 Ole Miss crushes Ark. St.

OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI - Eli Manning threw for 290 yards and three touchdowns to lead No. 25 Mississippi over Arkansas State 52-17 on Saturday. <br> <br> The Rebels (5-1), ranked for the first time in two years and coming off an upset of Florida, had a typically easy time with the Indians (4-4). <br> <br> Ole Miss is 18-1-2 against Arkansas State and have won last 10 by an average of more than 20 points per game. <br> <br> The Rebels didn&#39;t punt - though they did commit four turnovers - outgained the Indians 508-264 and gave Manning most of the fourth quarter off. <br> <br> Ole Miss scored 50 points in a non-overtime game for the first time since 1995. Last year, Ole Miss scored 56 points in seven overtimes against Arkansas. <br> <br> Manning was 14-of-19 with an interception and tied the school record for career touchdown passes with 43, sharing the mark with Romaro Miller. Manning&#39;s father, Archie, threw 31 touchdowns in his stellar career at Ole Miss. <br> <br> Last week, Manning had his streak of consecutive games with a touchdown pass snapped at 16. It didn&#39;t take him long to get a new streak started. <br> <br> The junior hit Bill Flowers with a 2-yard floater in the first quarter to make it 10-0. <br> <br> A minute and a half after the Indians pulled to 17-10 on a field goal, Manning went deep to Taye Biddle for a 67-yard score with 4:39 left in the second quarter. <br> <br> Vashon Pearson ran for two scores, and Ole Miss even got a career-long 50-yard field goal from Jonathan Nichols. <br> <br> If there was one concern for the Rebels, it might have been their inability to stop the Indians&#39; running game. Danny Smith rushed for 96 yards and two touchdowns on 18 carries for Arkansas State. <br> <br> The Rebels went up 38-10 in the third quarter on touchdowns runs of 6 yards by Pearson and 13 by Tremaine Turner. <br> <br> Ole Miss now moves into the toughest part of its schedule, beginning next week at Alabama. The Rebels play four of their last six on the road, all against Southeastern Conference opponents. <br> <br> The Indians had their three-game winning streak snapped, but are still off to their best start since moving up to Division I-A 10 years ago.

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