BATON ROUGE, La. — Solutions come simpler after blowout losses.
And Ole Miss soccer’s 29-26 additional time loss at LSU was something however a blowout. The No. 8 Rebels (5-2, 1-2 SEC) didn’t path in regulation in opposition to LSU (5-1, 2-0) however surrendered a game-tying landing cross with 27 seconds left when LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier hit sophomore Aaron Anderson in the long run zone on fourth-and-5.
After Ole Miss needed to accept an extended subject aim to begin additional time, LSU gained the sport in a single play. Nussmeier lofted a cross down the appropriate sideline to senior receiver Kyren Lacy. He elevated and caught it, sending the gang of greater than 100,000 right into a frenzy that spilled on to the sector.
“I am actually dissatisfied, clearly,” Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin mentioned. “We should always’ve gained that sport. We type of commanded the sport for almost all of it. However credit score to them for making performs late within the fourth quarter and additional time.”
The Rebels outgained LSU in complete yards, 464 to 421. The disparity was particularly obvious on the bottom, the place Ole Miss greater than doubled LSU’s speeding output, 180 to 84. For many of the first half and even into the second, the Rebels had a noticeable, if unsteady, management of the sport.
“I don’t perceive how we misplaced,” Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart mentioned. “They did a couple of game-plan issues. I don’t perceive how we misplaced.”
Maybe the Rebels’ second offensive play was a harbinger of issues to come back. Receiver Tre Harris, who entered the sport because the nation’s main receiver, dropped a deep ball from Dart that seemed like it might’ve been an 81-yard landing.
Within the second quarter, Ole Miss received the ball on its 25-yard line with 26 seconds left. Dart accomplished a 5-yard cross to operating again Henry Parrish, who had the ball torn from his palms. As a substitute of the clock operating out and the Rebels operating via the tunnel with a 17-10 lead, LSU received a free subject aim.
Ole Miss additionally was stopped in a crucial spot on a fourth-and-1 with 6:15 left within the first quarter. With the ball on the LSU 4-yard line, the Rebels snapped the ball on to Parrish, who was dragged down for no achieve.
“These issues meet up with you,” Kiffin mentioned. “You miss a subject aim. A fourth-and-1 the place we do not get it lower off so we get no factors within the pink zone. We hand them three factors with the fumble on the finish of the half. That is why I felt like we had been outplaying them, and we had been the higher workforce for almost all of the sport. However you have to shut them out.”
Sam Hutchens covers Ole Miss for the Clarion Ledger. E-mail him at Shutchens@gannett.com or attain him on X at @Sam_Hutchens_