No. 20 Ole Miss outduels No. 13 LSU with late touchdown to complete highest-scoring game in series history

No. 20 Ole Miss set program information and rebuffed a second-half surge to disappointed No. 13 LSU 55-49 for its first SEC win of the season. With 104 blended issues, the Rebels and the Tigers set a brand new bar for his or her competition, in addition to the 2023 season as an entire. The Week 5 shootout surpasses Washington’s 59-32 win towards California for many issues scored between FBS groups this season. 

Ole Miss’ 55 issues had been its maximum scored towards a group ranked in the AP Top 25. The Rebels additionally set a college file with 711 yards towards an SEC opponent. In all, the 2 groups blended for 1,343 general yards of offense. Ole Miss operating again Quinshon Judkins, a preseason first-team All-American, notched his first 100-yard game of the season with 177 yards speeding and one touchdown on a whopping 33 carries. 

Ironically, regardless that, it was once Ole Miss’ protection in the highlight in opposition to the top of the game. The Rebels scored a go-ahead touchdown with 39 seconds final in the game — a nifty 13-yard catch and run via receiver Tre Harris on a display screen from Jaxson Dart — a bit of an excessive amount of time for an explosive LSU offense armed with two timeouts — and the Tigers got here very shut to making them pay for leaving an excessive amount of time at the clock. 

Immediately, LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels discovered wideout Chris Hilton Jr. for a acquire of 42 yards to Ole Miss’ 33-yard line. Two performs later, Rebels defensive again DeShawn Gaddie Jr. dropped a very easy interception. Then, linebacker Jeremiah Jean-Baptiste was once referred to as for a horse-collar take on on Daniels. 

That moved the ball to Ole Miss’ 16-yard line with about 12 seconds at the clock, however a couple of false begins with an incompletion sandwiched in between put the Tigers at second-and-20 with 5 seconds left. The groups traded timeouts earlier than LSU’s last-ditch effort fell to the turf in the top zone. 

LSU went 5 for 9 on 3rd down with neatly north of 600 yards of general offense and nonetheless misplaced. Daniels in truth outdueled Dart with similar passing numbers (414 yards, 4 TDs) however ran for any other 99 yards and any other rating.