{"id":329261,"date":"2025-12-04T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329261\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:40:08","slug":"urban-meyer-states-charlie-weis-jr-calling-plays-for-ole-miss-in-the-cfp-is-a-big-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329261\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer states Charlie Weis Jr. calling plays for Ole Miss in the CFP is a ‘big positive’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was announced<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday that offensive coordinator\u00a0Charlie Weis Jr.<\/a>\u00a0would be returning to\u00a0Ole Miss<\/a>\u00a0to call plays during its\u00a0College Football Playoff<\/a> run. Weis was just one of a handful of Ole Miss coaches that took a plane to Baton Rouge alongside former head coach\u00a0Lane Kiffin<\/a>, as he is expected to take over as\u00a0LSU<\/a>\u2018s new offensive coordinator. For now however, the plan is to make his way back to Oxford for the Rebels\u2019 CFP run.<\/p>\n

Weis has a long history with Kiffin, dating back to when the two were at\u00a0Alabama<\/a>\u00a0together during the 2015 and 2016 seasons. After one year apart, the two reconnected at\u00a0FAU<\/a>. However, Weis was on the move once again in 2020 to become\u00a0USF<\/a>\u2018s offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n

The decision to link back up at Ole Miss came in 2022 when Weis assumed the role of offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He has worked with Kiffin ever since and presumably plans to continue to so at LSU.<\/p>\n

During Wednesday\u2019s edition of \u2018The Triple Option<\/a>\u2018 Podcast, College Football Hall of Fame head coach Urban Meyer<\/a> called the move a \u2018big positive\u2019 for Ole Miss.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know that,\u201d Meyer responded when told that Weis Jr. would be calling plays in the CFP. \u201cAt first, Lane Kiffin said \u2018get on the plane or I\u2019m leaving you\u2019. And I saw Charlie Weis Jr. get on a plane. But, that is public now that Charlie Weis can call plays (in the Playoff)? That\u2019s a big positive, because a head coach at this time of year is a little overrated. Head coaches are the one\u2019s that build. When the foot hits the ball, the head coach is just a game manager.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlie Weis Jr. has been crucial in Ole Miss\u2019 success this season<\/p>\n

With Weis Jr. calling plays this season, Ole Miss\u2018 offense ranks first in the SEC in yards per game (498.1 YPG) and third in the SEC in points per game (37.3). Quarterback Trinidad Chambliss<\/a> has also emerged as one of the best quarterbacks in the country, passing for 3,016 yards, 18 touchdowns, and just three interceptions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted it to be known that after conversations with LSU, we are allowing Charlie to return to Ole Miss to coach the team during the playoffs,\u201d Kiffin said in a statement<\/a> released on Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019ve already made the committee aware of this and I\u2019m hopeful this decision will allow Ole Miss to receive the highest ranking possible because these great players are very deserving of that. I\u2019m excited that Charlie will be back to help coach the greatest team in the history of Ole Miss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since it will be sitting out of this weekend\u2019s SEC Championship Game, Ole Miss will have to wait until Sunday\u2019s Selection Show to find out its fate for the College Football Playoff. The Rebels will likely be hosting the first ever CFP game at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was announced\u00a0on Tuesday that offensive coordinator\u00a0Charlie Weis Jr.\u00a0would be returning to\u00a0Ole Miss\u00a0to call plays during its\u00a0College Football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[167281,399,398,396,397,99,18421],"class_list":{"0":"post-329261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-charlie-weis-jr","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-urban-meyer-82-ss-john-paul"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}