OXFORD, Miss. — No, that wasn’t Leonard Fournette running over the Ole Miss Rebels.
It was Derrius Guice.
He’s back. And his LSU Tigers are bowl eligible, on a three-game winning streak and flying high heading into their bye week.
Guice raced for 276 yards, LSU defensive backs picked off three passes and the 24th-ranked Tigers thumped Ole Miss 40-24 at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on Saturday night, a rousing victory against coach Ed Orgeron’s former program.
The Tigers (6-2, 3-1 Southeastern Conference) claimed their first win here since 2011, and Orgeron matched his number of league wins in three years as Ole Miss’ head coach (three) in eight games as the permanent leader in Baton Rouge.