No. 9 Ole Miss ran for 448 yards on 69 carries in Saturday’s 48-34 victory against Auburn in front of 65,423 fans at Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium.

Ole Miss is 7-0 for the first time since the 2014 season; before that, it was 1962, the last time the Rebels were 7-0 to start a season. The win also broke Auburn’s six-game winning streak in the series.

Rebels’ head coach Lane Kiffin spoke to reporters after winning against Auburn. Here’s some of what Kiffin said in Oxford.

Opening Statement…

”Really good team win. It was unusual with the delay so I was really proud of just the long time sitting there and just talking to our players about finishing the play off, and those guys really rallied and played a close game. I was very pleased on how we finished on offense and defense. You know we stopped them there, got the pick, and shut down the series. Then we gave the ball back to them and then they go those two first downs. We talked about that during the delay and evaluate what happened and we just have to stop them on defense. Those two first downs at the end of the game were good, we haven’t been great at that. That was really good to see. Obviously, this is the story of the game but we just had to stop them from running. They had three rushers with over 100 yards and there were a lot of people doing things right. Like I told the guys, we had a cool story on that play when Mingo got that catch. When we have a record setting day, they talk about how well he’s doing and how many rushing yards we had so that’s really cool when you have selfless people like that.”

On concerns about the defense…

”Obviously, that wasn’t up to our standards no matter who is in there. Unfortunately, our best player tried to go and we already played our best player from an impact standpoint. Cedric wasn’t able to play at all. He made some excuses but our guys have to step up every time because this is the middle of the season, we’re going to have injuries and obviously, we don’t have Trigg this week and we don’t have a bunch of explosive runs. Then we announced that we have lightning eight miles from here and so we have to come up with a defensive play and then I was like well we have thirty minutes to go figure it out.”

On the onside kick…

”It was a huge play for the players to make the play. Looks awesome on film. Coach did a great job of finding it and they had been practicing it all week. You know, we were struggling at that point in the game so we got the ball back in the game so I don’t think that’s what people were anticipating in the game in a high-scoring kind of game. We got to that drive so let’s do it. We get it and then they’re back on the field again so we get twenty straight snaps on defense so the players needed it. Obviously, it helped us in the game a lot.”

On conference play this year…

”I actually wasn’t one hundred percent coming into this game. We had to talk through some things so we ran the ball really well. Our tight ends and our receivers remembered to block really well and a lot of those different types of schemes got our ball in the perimeter because our guys will get to the ball in between tackles so we can take the ball around the edge and get around them.”

Nubyjas Wilborn covers Auburn for Alabama Media Group