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The Flagship: Ole Miss football now taking long look in mirror

Ben Garrettby:Ben Garrett•10/14/24•

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In this post-LSU edition of ‘The Flagship,’ powered by College Corner, Zach Berry is joined by his Ole Miss Spirit (OMSpirit.com) teammate Jake Thompson as we continue to wade through the fallout of Ole Miss’ heartbreaking, season-defining and possibly program-altering loss in Death Valley.

“I just made sure they understood what was going on and the whole season together and how close they are to being undefeated,” fifth-year Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin said Monday. “Very rarely are games down to the last play like both ours have been. We’ve been ahead by four points in both of them with the ball and a chance to go make it two scores and put the games away and didn’t do it. 

“I told them there are a lot of plays within the game we usually make and if I would’ve coached better and done different things.”

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What went wrong? How will Lane Kiffin and Co. respond over the Rebels’ by this week? 

They’re rapidly running out of time, if they haven’t already.

“I encourage our fans to stick together,” Kiffin said. “You’re talking about a one-play game or else you’re talking about what a great win in a hard place to play and in a place we haven’t won in 16 years and haven’t won at night in 23 years. Kids weren’t alive that time, so that kind of shows you that’s been a hard place for Ole Miss to play and we were ahead the whole game and a play away from closing it out.

“There’s a lot left to play. I told them, ‘You’re a really good team. We’re just not finishing like a great team would or we’re undefeated right now.’”

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