LSU 'played great football' in rallying past Rebels

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Jayden Daniels ran for 3 touchdowns and passed for 2 scores, and LSU roared backmost from an aboriginal two-touchdown shortage to manus No. 7 Mississippi its archetypal nonaccomplishment this season, 45-20 connected Saturday.

The show gave the dynamic Daniels the LSU grounds for touchdowns rushing successful a play by a backmost with nine. Daniels besides has accounted for 11 TDs rushing oregon passing combined successful the span of 2 games. He had 3 of each successful a 45-35 triumph astatine Florida past weekend.

Reveling successful the resounding triumph implicit a humanities and highly-ranked rival, LSU fans stormed the tract arsenic the crippled ended. Now LSU (6-2, 4-1 SEC), successful manager Brian Kelly's archetypal season, is backmost successful the contention to triumph the SEC West -- if the Tigers tin bushed No. 6 Alabama.

According to ESPN Stats & Information research, LSU became the archetypal squad since astatine slightest 2005 to decision an AP Top-10 squad by 25-plus points aft trailing astatine halftime.

"Our guys wanted this opportunity," Kelly said. "They saw this arsenic a privilege to play successful this stadium, and truly wanted this opportunity. And obviously, the past 3 quarters, they played large football."

After being outgained 200-80 successful the archetypal 4th and falling down 17-3 connected Jonathan Cruz's tract extremity to commencement the 2nd quarter, LSU outscored Ole Miss (7-1, 3-1) 41-3 the remainder of the game.

The Tigers finished with 500 full yards to 404 for manager Lane Kiffin's vaunted Mississippi offense.

Daniels passed for 258 yards and ran for 121 without a turnover. His scoring passes went for 34 yards to Jaray Jenkins and 1 gait to choky extremity Mason Taylor. He ran for touchdowns of 3, 11 and 17 yards, the longest each but salting the crippled distant successful the 4th quarter.

Josh Williams ran 1 gait for the Tigers' last TD precocious successful the 4th quarter.

"At the extremity of the day, erstwhile you person a apical squad coming in, that's wherefore you travel to LSU," Kelly said. "And our champion players played their best. And we needed that."

Nearly everything went close for LSU successful the 2nd half. Even linebacker Harold Perkins Jr.'s unsportsmanlike behaviour punishment aft a third-down halt astatine the Rebels' 15-yard enactment aboriginal successful the 4th fourth couldn't crook the tide successful the Rebels' favor. Down 11 points astatine the time, Ole Miss coiled up having to punt anyhow minutes later.

"Missed tackles," Ole Miss manager Lane Kiffin said, summing up the collapse. "We got pushed around. Had immoderate injuries up determination during the game, evidently doesn't help. We didn't bash a batch close defensively."

Daniels past drove the Tigers 75 yards for a touchdown to marque it 38-20.

After first-quarter touchdown runs of 3 and 6 yards by Judkins, Ole Miss was threatening to spell up 21-3 erstwhile LSU's defence yet got a halt connected third-and-5 from the LSU 13, limiting the Rebels to a tract goal.

The Tigers past scored 2 touchdowns to necktie it. Daniels deed Jaray Jenkins with 34-yard scoring walk and Daniels capped the Tigers' adjacent possession by keeping the shot connected a read-option tally from the 3.

Jonathan Cruz's 48-yard tract extremity gave Mississippi a 20-17 pb that stood until halftime.

But LSU's defence battered Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart successful the 2nd half. The Rebels QB finished 19 of 34 for 284 yards. He was intercepted successful the LSU extremity portion by Joe Foucha successful the 3rd 4th connected a walk thrown nether unit from linebacker Micah Baskerville.

Three weeks aft a disheartening nonaccomplishment to Tennessee astatine home, Kelly has the Tigers playing their champion football. LSU besides again showed its resoluteness successful winning for the 3rd clip this twelvemonth aft trailing by 13 oregon much successful league play.

The Tigers volition instrumentality connected the Crimson Tide connected Nov. 5.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.