Lane Kiffin Crushes Oklahoma Coach’s ‘hot Take’ About Ole Miss Win With Lots Of Receipts

Ole Miss rolled into Oklahoma and earned a 34-26 triumph complete nan Sooners connected Saturday, but Oklahoma coach Brent Venables walked distant emotion for illustration he still had nan amended team.

Venables said connected Monday, "Felt for illustration we were nan amended team. At nan extremity of nan day's it's a crippled of performance, executing and I thought they out-executed america erstwhile it mattered nan most." Venables was complimentary of nan play from Rebels backmost Trinidad Chambliss, but felt his squad did not tackle aliases execute good enough.

Later successful nan day, Ole Miss caput coach Lane Kiffin was asked astir Venables calling his Sooners nan amended team. Kiffin pulled retired each nan receipts and replied, “That’s a basking take. I wouldn’t person thought group watching it would opportunity that. I felt for illustration one, we won astatine their spot successful upwind that, arsenic a protect caput coach you would usually wish for, and won by 8 points. And I deliberation we near a batch retired there. I deliberation we should’ve won by a mates scores. So, I don’t cognize really he evaluated that crippled that they were nan amended team. I mean, we had measurement much yards, 21 first downs to 14 and we played, what, 87 plays of discourtesy and they had 1 sack and didn’t unit immoderate turnovers. That’s an absorbing take, but immoderate he needs to say."

Kiffin past took things a measurement further by bringing up past times he's beaten Venables during his career, including erstwhile he was nan caput coach astatine USC and violative coordinator for Alabama.

"Maybe they had nan amended squad past twelvemonth excessively erstwhile we hit them," Kiffin continued. "Maybe he had nan amended squad astatine Oklahoma erstwhile we hit them 55-19 successful nan nationalist championship. Maybe. Maybe he had nan amended squad astatine Clemson erstwhile we hit them 45-40 successful nan nationalist title astatine Alabama. Next question, my bad.”

Ole Miss is surely playing for illustration nan amended squad than Oklahoma. They are 7-1 this play and 4-1 successful nan SEC, while Oklahoma is 6-2 and conscionable 2-2 successful convention play. Though nan Sooners person nan apical defense successful full yards and points allowed per game, nan Rebels dropped 34 points to conclusion them. Ole Miss holds 1 of nan apical offenses successful some nan convention and country, and that overtook Oklahoma's defense this past weekend.

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