Why No Review of Ole Miss Play End of Game

A French's mustard canteen sailed from the Neyland Stadium stands on Saturday night.

It landed almost the 10-yard line in the southeast corner, settling in a debris field of Dasani water bottles, crushed beer cans, vape pens, liquor bottles and a full hot canis familiaris expelled from its bun.

In that location were 54 seconds left in Tennessee football's game confronting Ole Miss when the stadium devolved into a fracas of flying objects, including a neon yellow golf ball that hitting Rebels coach Lane Kiffin.

"I just wanted to play," Kiffin said. "The players got helmets. It was the coaches that were going to get hitting."

For 18 minutes, Tennessee's 31-26 loss to Ole Miss was a projectile-throwing festival as some Vols fans acted on their displeasure post-obit a concluding-minute telephone call.

UT athletics managing director Danny White chosen the actions "unacceptable" in a statement. He apologized to Ole Miss AD Keith Carter following the game. UT Chancellor Donde Plowman stated she was "astonished and sickened by the behavior of some Vol fans" in a argument on Twitter. She indicated she would call Ole Miss Chancellor Glenn Boyce to offering an apology.

"Neyland Stadium has always been a identify for families, and nosotros will keep information technology that way," Plowman said.

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Tennessee tight end Jacob Warren was ruled short of a showtime down on a 4th-and-24 attempt with less than a minute to play. Officials reviewed the play and upheld the ruling on the field, the second significant ruling that maddened the sellout oversupply. UT had a first-quarter defensive touchdown called back after officials conferred and stated Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral's forward progress had stopped.

Fans responded after the fourth-quarter call with boos and frustration, which boiled into catapulting annihilation conceivable toward the field after official Marc Curles declared the ruling stood every bit called. Half-filled water bottles exploded when they hit the field. The golf ball pelted Kiffin in the leg equally he spoke with an official.

"In that location was a number of bottles with some dark-brown stuff in them, so I'm not sure," Kiffin said when asked if anything else hitting him. "I don't think information technology was moonshine. I don't think they'd waste product the moonshine on me."

Ole Miss and Tennessee initially went on the field to resume play, but instead waited through the madness.

Security ushered the band out of the stands and downward the south tunnel. UT'southward cheer squad moved downwards the sideline away from the educatee department, covering their heads with placards. Police force and stadium security worked to clear portions of the student department.

Ole Miss defensive lineman Quentin Bivens sat on the Rebels bench with a whiteboard covering his head. A Rebels staffer used another whiteboard to cover defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin's head as he spoke with the defense.

The unabridged Ole Miss squad eventually left the bench and moved onto the field.

"Player safety is the No. 1 thing you always worry about," Vols coach Josh Heupel said. "And then how you are going to finish the football game game. The situation that is coming upwards defensively and offensively. …

"Disappointed that volition be a story — or the story — from this football game from a small amount of our fans. There were and then many that represented Tennessee in a dandy style tonight."

Tennessee's public address journalist pleaded repeatedly with Vols fans to finish throwing items onto the field. His final plea indicated the game would be ruled a forfeit if the chaos did non cease.

UT had three timeouts remaining and an opportunity to stop Ole Miss, creating a adventure to win.

"I am still locked in," Vols rubber Trevon Flowers said. "There was time in the clock. I can only control what we can control."

The game resumed afterwards well-nigh twenty minutes. Tennessee stuffed Ole Miss iii straight times, forcing a punt. Velus Jones Jr. returned information technology twoscore yards to the Rebels' 47.

Quarterback Hendon Hooker rushed for 14 yards, but was injure on the play. Fill-in Joe Milton entered. Milton completed a pass to Walker Merrill, then spiked the ball. He threw to the end zone, simply his laissez passer effort was simply across Cedric Tillman's reach. Milton ran on the final play for 13 yards, coming upwards 8 yards shy of the finish zone.

"I think everybody here would say the same thing, you want to put the brawl in the finish zone," Heupel said.

Kiffin put the hood on his white sweatshirt over his caput as he walked to detect Heupel on the field. He carried the golf brawl with him, showing information technology during his postgame on-field interview with ESPN.

The former Vols passenger vehicle, who was 7-6 in 2009 before bolting for Southern Cal, waved to the remaining UT students. He signaled No. 1 and pointed at his breast. He almost caught a h2o bottle as he walked beneath the field-goal post.

Policemen covered his head. He waved again, took off his visor and launched it into the crowd above the south tunnel.

After hundreds of airborne projectiles, Kiffin's visor was the final detail thrown — the only 1 that went from the field into the stands.

"I think information technology was more than students that were viii or something when we were here before or whatever," Kiffin said. "Early on, going out there, I thought it was a different reception. I recollect that's one of the most passionate fan bases in America.

"You go 100,000 of them together and things don't go their way and lot of energy is going, they got upset, I don't know."

Mike Wilson covers University of Tennessee athletics. Email him at michael.wilson@knoxnews.com and follow him on Twitter @ByMikeWilson. If you enjoy Mike's coverage, consider a digital subscription that will permit you access to all of it.

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