There’s really only one conclusion to draw from No. 1 LSU’s 45-10 drubbing of Auburn on Saturday.

After stewing over it for a day, revisiting the persistency of the LSU defense hounding quarterback Clint Moseley, rehashing the ways in which the Auburn defense followed up its best outing of the year with a mediocre one, Tigers players and coaches agreed on one thing Sunday.

They got beaten. Soundly. In basically all phases of the game.

“(LSU) ain’t ranked No. 1 by mistake,” cornerback T’Sharvan Bell said.

Well, Auburn players and coaches were unanimous about two things Sunday, actually.

They can’t let the LSU game beat them twice.

The Tigers (5-3, 3-2 SEC) start their preparation for Ole Miss (2-5, 0-4) with an intense need to right the ship, one that took on a lot of water recently.

Auburn has followed both of its losses this year with wins the next week.

After losing to Clemson, the Tigers turned around and beat Florida Atlantic. After losing to Arkansas, Auburn followed it up by beating Florida.

Auburn hasn’t lost consecutive games since dropping contests to Georgia and alabama in November 2009.

“The lows of losing are a lot lower than the highs of winning,” defensive coordinator Ted Roof said. “The lows can stay with you a lot longer than the highs. But as a coach, if you let yourself fall down into that pit, it trickles down to your players.

“You can’t do that.”

Ole Miss is looking to halt a couple of streaks itself.

The Rebels have lost two straight games — a 52-7 rout against alabama and a 29-24 loss to Arkansas, both at home — and are winless in the SEC this season.

They haven’t beaten an SEC opponent in more than a year — a 42-35 win over Kentucky on Oct. 2, 2010 — a string of 10 straight conference losses.

Auburn’s not looking to do them any favors.

“Yeah, we’re down, yeah we’ve got a lot to learn, but at the same time we realize (LSU) was a really good team and we didn’t play nearly as well as we could have,” Moseley said. “We know that we have to bounce back, and that’s what is our focus this week.”

Auburn actually hung with LSU for most of the first half Saturday, before the homestanding Tigers ripped off 35 points in a little more than 12 minutes, turning an upset bid into a national title contender exerting its dominance over a weaker opponent.

Of course, Auburn did its part to help their opponents along, with two costly turnovers — a fumbled kick return and a pick-6 — and allowing two big pass plays for touchdowns.

“I don’t want to say it wasn’t that bad. It was awful,” Moseley said. “But we were a few plays away, a few blocks away, just little things, from scoring a lot more points than we did.”

Head coach Gene Chizik said the beauty about this team is it can take a loss like Saturday’s and not go in the tank.

If the team responds as he believes it will, Chizik said, the LSU loss should be a distant memory by the middle of the week.

“One of the things we’ve done well over the years is we’ve been able to move on, been able to leave things, both good and bad,” Chizik said. “When things haven’t gone well, let’s shove it back, learn from it, move on and go to the next thing.”

Bell said he’s eager to put that plan into action.

“We’re trying to go back out there and let the world know we’re not the team we showed Saturday night,” Bell said. “We’re definitely better than that and capable of playing better than that.”