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Everything Lane Kiffin said on the SEC Teleconference ahead of Arkansas

11by: Jake Thompson6 hours agoJakeThompsonOn3
Syndication: The Courier-Journal
Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin worked the sidelines as the Kentucky Wildcats faced off against the Ole Miss Rebels at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky on Saturday, September 6, 2025. Ole Miss defeated Kentucky, 30-23. Mandatory credit: eff Faughender/Courier Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

No. 17 Ole Miss (2-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) hosts Arkansas (2-0) on Saturday at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN for its first SEC home game of the 2025 season.

Sixth-year Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin made his weekly appearance on the SEC Coaches Teleconference on Wednesday to discuss this weekend’s game against the Razorbacks.

Below is everything he had to say

OPENING STATEMENT

Kiffin: “Excited to be back home in front of our crowd. We’ve been fortunate to have a good run run here. I think they said 14-1 and 27 and 3 of the last 30 or something. Our program’s come a long way and the crowds have come a long ways, too, when I think about from the beginning.

That’s exciting to have full stadiums and have phenomenal student energy. So, very competitive team coming in that’s got a lot of really good players and obviously the most important thing for a good team is a quarterback and they’ve got a really special one that’s really good and really a problem.

So, we’re going to have our hands full with a defense that plays extremely hard and really, outside of our game for the most part, really held people down last year.”

ON THE AVAILABILITY OF OLE MISS TE LUKE HASZ AND THE PLAY OF PATRICK KUTAS

Kiffin: “I really got the same update for you. Luke might be available.

Kutas has done a really good job, really a great leader. Really brings great work ethic. A lot of credit to him. A lot of credit to (Arkansas head coach) Same (Pittman), too. When we get guys from certain programs, we can tell that they’ve been trained really well, how they work. So, we’re glad we had them.”

ON SAM PITTMAN’S COMMENTS THE REBELS OFFENSE DID NOT RUN ‘THEIR PLAYS’ AND SLOWER TEMPO AS USUAL IN LAST YEAR’S GAME.

Kiffin: “Hmm. You want all our plays we are going to run, too? …Yeah. I can’t really comment on that, sorry.

I do think, though, the game was an example of just every play went our way. Every call, every ball. It was almost perfectly thrown. So, it was just really really one of those games that every once in a while happens. Where kind of every break went our way.”

ON OLE MISS CHOOSING TO KICK FIELD GOALS AGAINST KENTUCKY LAST WEEK

Kiffin: “Every game’s different. You know, every year’s different, but every game’s different. Who you’re playing and how it’s going. Playing those guys, Kentucky, a couple years before that and how the games went and we’ve been able to play pretty good defense against them. So, just kind of thought that game called for those in those moments on the road (with) a young quarterback, you know. Spent a lot of time in analytics and specific-game based.”

ON THE ARKANSAS DEFENSE

Kiffin: “They play really hard and playing really fast and give people a lot of problems and play as well as anybody. We’re going to have to deal with their improved speed on defense and we’re going to have to be ready for a lot.”

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