Ole Miss football and Lane Kiffin came awfully close to pulling off an earth-shattering upset over No. 2 Alabama and Nick Saban. It was a battle of two high-powered offenses in their own right and the Rebels left nothing in the tank.
Here are the five major takeaways from a game that almost was:
Jeff Lebby is a wizard.
There is no doubt that Kiffin coached circles around Saban in their first meeting since the former’s time coaching under the latter in Tuscaloosa from 2014 to 2016. However, he is not the one calling plays— that’s offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby up in the booth.