TCU vs. Ole Miss: Individual Matchups to Watch in 2014 Peach Bowl

Do your job and your team will be successful.

That's the mentality for football players who know that winning a one-on-one battle against your opponent is all you have to worry about. In many cases, these individual matchups separate wins from losses.

This is exactly the case in the 2014 Peach Bowl between TCU and Ole Miss. The highly anticipated game pits one of the best offenses in college football against one of the best defenses. While everyone has their own role, a few key spots will help decide the outcome.

These are the most important battles to watch for in one of the best bowl games of the season.

Josh Doctson vs. Senquez Golson

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Although Ole Miss had a good year and the No. 1 scoring defense in the nation, only one player was named first team All-American by the Associated Press. This honor went to Senquez Golson, the senior cornerback who has been outstanding all season long.

Bleacher Report's college football staff selected the 5'9" player as the No. 1 player at the position this season, explaining:

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No cornerback in America plays the ball better than Golson, who led the SEC with nine total interceptions and picked off six passes in five games during the heart of conference play. He is a former outfielder for the Ole Miss baseball team (and draft pick of the Boston Red Sox) with innate tracking instincts and the timing and athleticism needed to compensate for being 5’9”.

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This will make things difficult for quarterback Trevone Boykin, especially when he is trying to target his No. 1 receiver, Josh Doctson.

While TCU did a great job of spreading the ball around this season, Doctson was the top option in the passing game. He finished the year with 59 catches, 959 receiving yards and nine touchdowns, all of which led the team.

The junior is also red hot going into the bowl game, with 266 yards on 16 catches and two touchdowns in the past two games.

Most importantly, he has a seven-inch height advantage over Golson. Boykin likely doesn't want to target the elite cornerback directly, but Doctson has a chance to change the game by winning this battle.

Bo Wallace vs. Chris Hackett

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TCU safety Chris Hackett is simply a playmaker on the defensive side of the ball. The junior not only led the team with six interceptions on the year, but he averaged 21.8 yards per return to put the team in good field position on the other end.

If you want to be successful against this defense, you need to be aware of where Hackett is on the field at all times.

This will be the primary task for Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace, who has plenty of talent but has taken on the role of game manager this season to help win with a great defense behind him. His job is simply to avoid mistakes, something he has struggled with at times this year.

In games where Wallace has at least a 110 passer efficiency rating (which would rank 111th in the nation over the course of the season), Ole Miss is 9-1. Of course, the other two games were road losses to LSU and Arkansas where the offense scored a total of seven points.

Hugh Kellenberger of The Clarion-Ledger summed it up during the Arkansas loss:

If the senior doesn't take care of the ball, Hackett will be all over him with some game-changing turnovers. This will quickly slide the momentum in TCU's favor, and possibly lead to a Big 12 victory.

Joey Hunt vs. Robert Nkemdiche

Slowing down Ole Miss defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche will have to be a team effort. The highly touted sophomore was the top recruit in his high school class and has lived up to expectations in his two years with the Rebels.

"I always have a motor on me and try to make things happen to free up other guys or do it for me," the second-team All-American explained to Kellenberger. "I just want to disrupt the game, and that's what I'm going to do by being in the backfield as much as I can."

No matter what you are trying to do offensively, Nkemdiche has the ability to blow up the game plan by penetrating the line and getting to the ball-carrier.

If TCU wants to run its offense like it has in the past, the first task will be containing the tackle. This will start with the play of center Joey Hunt.

The junior was a second-team All-Conference selection this season as someone who can lead his teammates on both passing and running plays. No matter what side of the field Nkemdiche lines up on, Hunt will likely be asked to help out on a double-team and keep the opposing player as far away from the play as possible.

If he can limit the defender's impact just a little bit, the Horned Frogs will have much more success in this game.

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