Ole Miss remained undefeated and improved to 6-0 after recording a 52-28 victory over host Vanderbilt on Saturday.

It didn’t exactly unfold the way some had drawn it up in the beginning, but the 9th-ranked Rebels pulled away in a big way in the end — and at the end of the day, a win is a win.

Here’s a look at 3 takeaways from the victory:

1. Jaxson Dart is coming along, but good isn’t good enough

This is a quarterback with a high ceiling whose tendencies have at times mirrored the same type of potential stardom that Matt Corral showed. Dart received a certain amount of early Heisman Trophy hype for a reason, but he is still very much a developmental quarterback who simply needs more experience.

He completed 25-of-32 passes for 448 yards with 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions on Saturday. There is a lot to like about that stat line, and the total passing yards are unreal. But at the same time, it’s reflective of some decision-making issues that have been apparent to some, including head coach Lane Kiffin.

“Jaxson made a lot of really good plays,” Kiffin said in the postgame press conference. “Usually, he’s made one really bad one. Today, he made two really bad ones in the same game. We’ve got to get out of those. We can’t get too comfortable when things are going well. On the second one, it’s an RPO and he could just hand the ball off.”

That’s been the tale of the tape for Dart to this point in the season. He’s a developing passer who has a great sense of mobility. And not to sound old-fashioned, but quarterback development takes time. It seems many want to find a flash in the pan with big traits to go off of. These things don’t happen overnight, but it’s clear Dart is on a good track as he works through these growing pains.

2. Secondary struggles

Kiffin wasn’t exactly happy with the way his secondary performed. And it came down to tackling more than anything else.

“We didn’t tackle very well,” Kiffin said. “We still didn’t tackle very well in the second half. Really poor tackling by the secondary, which in our system is very important as you know because the ball goes to those guys a lot.”

AJ Finley was the Rebels’ leading tackler, recording 8 total tackles (5 solo), with Tysheem Johnson trailing him with 5 total tackles (4 solo). This is an area that has to improve within a defense that has largely been successful but also for a team whose success largely stems from its running game. Time will tell whether or not it is about Ole Miss struggling this much in this area or about the rise of Vanderbilt.

But it’s never great to go into halftime trailing a team that has been deemed the lowliest in the SEC for years, as Ole Miss did on Saturday when it was down 20-17 at the half.

3. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves

When you experience this much turnover within the roster and the coaching staff and lose a lot of star players in the process, there’s always a lot of uncertainty. Such has not been the case for Ole Miss within conference and nonconference play. It has defied the doubters.

Still, Kiffin is taking this thing 1 win at a time and doesn’t look beyond the upcoming week. He also knows there is room for improvement.

“I’m thinking we should’ve played a lot better,” he said. “I’m certainly not thinking about a national championship. You and I watched that first half. We can’t be worried about that. We’ve got a long way to go to improve and play a matchup (at home against Auburn on Saturday) that we haven’t won yet. We’re going to need our fans to repeat their performance from last week, show up and give us a home-field advantage.”