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A high – profile QB showdown few predicted back in August : Trinidad Chambliss vs . Gunner Stockton

clowfb Read In App NEW ORLEANS – Trinidad Chambliss and Gunner Stockton weren’t even supposed to be here. Not with these teams, not in this setting and certainly not players who garnered Heisman Trophy consideration. And, yet, here they are in the Big Easy preparing to lead their teams against each other in Thursday’s Allstate Sugar Bowl for the right to go to the College Football Playoff semifinals. “It’s been crazy, honestly,” said Chambliss, who started the season as Ole Miss ’ backup quarterback after spending his first four years at Division II Ferris State, where he didn’t see any game action his first two years. “Sometimes I’ve got to pinch myself and realize, ‘Dude, you’re at Ole Miss. You’re playing in the SEC and now I’m at the Sugar Bowl.’ I never really thought I’d get to this point, to be honest. I did have some doubt at Ferris State if football was really for me. So this is really cool, and I give thanks to God.” Stockton was a four-star prospect at Rabun County High in the northeastern corner of Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. He was all set to go play at South Carolina as a rising junior in high school and committed to the Gamecocks. But when Will Muschamp was fired

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