Ole Miss football couldn’t hang on down the stretch and fell 63-48 in a hard-fought, back-and-forth battle with No. 2 Alabama.
On the tail end of a rainy Saturday, Lane Kiffin led the Rebels out of the tunnel to square off with his former mentor Nick Saban, former offensive coordinator colleague Steve Sarkisian and the No. 2 ranked Crimson Tide in front of a limited-capacity crowd at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The media had hyped up the meeting of minds since the high-profile hire landed in Oxford in December, both coaches had fired jabs with one another throughout the week leading up to the game and the scene was set for a must-watch matchup of two SEC West opponents that share a mutual respect for one another but also hold on to the emotions of the Rebels’ back-to-back upset victories in 2014 and 2015.