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How Ole Miss football lost control at LSU in the final seconds

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How Ole Miss football lost control at LSU in the final seconds

BATON ROUGE, La. – Answers are easier after blowout losses.

And Ole Miss football's 29-26 overtime loss at LSU was anything but a blowout. The No Aaron Anderson in the end zone on fourth-and-5.

After Ole Miss had to settle for a long field goal at the start of overtime, LSU won the game in one play. Nussmeier threw a pass down the right sideline to senior receiver Kyren Lacy. He lifted the ball and caught it, sending excitement over the 100,000-plus crowd that spread to the field.

“I’m obviously really disappointed,” Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said. “We should have won that game. We dominated the game most of the time. But they deserve credit for the plays they made late in the fourth quarter and in overtime.”

The Rebels outscored LSU in total yards, 464 to 421. The disparity was particularly evident on the ground, where Ole Miss more than doubled LSU's rushing output, 180 to 84. For most of the first half and even into the second, the Rebels had maintained a noticeable, if unstable, control of the game.

“I don’t understand how we lost,” Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart said. “They did some game plan things. “I don't understand how we lost.”

Perhaps the Rebels' second offensive play was a sign of things to come. Receiver Tre Harris, who entered the game as the nation's best receiver, dropped a ball from Dart so far that it looked like it was an 81-yard touchdown.

In the second quarter, Ole Miss got the ball at its 25-yard line with 26 seconds left. Dart completed a 5-yard pass to running back Henry Parrish, who had the ball ripped out of his hands. Instead of time running out and the Rebels running out the tunnel with a 17-10 lead, LSU scored a free field goal.

Ole Miss was also stopped at a critical point on a four-and-1 with 6:15 left in the first quarter. With the ball at the LSU 4-yard line, the Rebels hit the ball directly to Parrish, who was pulled to the ground for no gain.

“These things catch up with you,” Kiffin said. “You miss a field goal. A fourth-and-1 where we don't cut it off, so we don't get points in the red zone. We give them three points with the fumble at the end of the half. That's why I. “We felt like we were superior to them and were the better team for most of the game. But you have to turn them off.

Sam Hutchens covers Ole Miss for the Clarion Ledger. Email him at [email protected] or reach him on X @Sam_Hutchens_

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