LISTEN: No. 9 Ole Miss flipped the script and ran away from Vanderbilt
Ole Miss, through the season’s first five games, showed a tendency of coming out fast but finishing slow. The Rebels scored a combined three second-half points in their last two.
They flipped the script at Vanderbilt on Saturday.
No. 9 Ole Miss faced just its second deficit all season, but scored 35 unanswered points to eventually rout the Commodores, 52-28, and move to 6-0 (2-0 SEC) on the season.
The Rebels next get Auburn in Oxford in a week’s time. Kickoff is set for at 11 a.m. CT.
“(Jaxson Dart) had two horrible plays as we know,” Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin said afterwards. “He’s got to stop doing that. Other than that, he had some really big plays. (Jonathan) Mingo broke the school record receiving.
“We got a road win and we’ve got to go get better.”
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Dart was 25 for 32 for a career-high 448 yards.
He also had a season-high three touchdown passes, and his effort placed him fifth in the Ole Miss record books for single-game passing yards, matching Jordan Ta’amu’s 2018 performance against Southern Illinois.
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Mingo broke the school’s single-game receiving record previously set by Elijah Moore in 2020 (238 yards). Mingo had nine catches for 247 yards and two touchdowns, aided by two 70-plus-yard touchdown connections with Dart.
So, of course, they get two helmet stickers in this postgame edition of Franchise Player.
Plus, Ben Garrett (Ole Miss Spirit/On3) and David Johnson (Inside the Rebels/247) don’t overreact to a slow start in Nashville, as well as identify which Rebel won the week and look ahead to Auburn.
The Rebels is still very much on track to be 9-0 headed into Alabama in November.
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