Lane Kiffin will be returning to Oxford in Week 3 of the upcoming college football season as the LSU Tigers take on the Ole Miss Rebels in an SEC thriller. This will be the former Ole Miss head coach’s first visit to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium since his highly controversial exit to LSU.
Analyst Joel Klatt spoke about Lane’s return on his podcast, The Joel Klatt Show, on Monday, claiming the atmosphere is set to be so hostile against Kiffin that all the security in the world may fall short.
Klatt also touched on the importance of the high-octane SEC showdown with respect to the College Football Playoff, as both teams will be in the running for one of the at-large spots provided they don’t win the conference title outright.
“LSU at Ole Miss. Lane going back to Oxford. I mean, let’s go! There’s not enough security on the planet for Lane,” Klatt said on the podcast. “This is going to be an insane atmosphere, obviously, but I think it’s also going to have real implications in the SEC because these are two teams I would categorize as the teams that are going to be fighting for those at-large spots. I don’t expect either of these teams to win the SEC.”
The Ole Miss Rebels are currently projected to be the seventh-best roster in the SEC while LSU is the fourth-best, per ESPN. Georgia is expected to be the best team in the league.
Trinidad Chambliss Claps Back At Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss Recruiting Comments
Lane Kiffin recently addressed the difference in recruiting at LSU and Ole Miss. The veteran head coach claimed that getting Black players to commit to the Rebels is a more difficult task than doing the same with the Tigers.
Kiffin then shared a conversation he had with a recruit to further solidify his point:
“‘Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.’ That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”
However, Trinidad Chambliss debunked this claim, praising the Oxford community while stating Kiffin wasn’t being “truthful.”
“Me, personally, I don’t agree. I don’t think that what he said was truthful… The Oxford community is nothing but love, and they care about their people no matter what they look like: brown, black, purple, yellow – you know what I mean?” the 23-year-old quarterback said.
Chambliss will be playing out his final year of eligibility with the Rebels after winning his appeal for an extra year of eligibility. The dual-threat star will be looking to right the wrongs from last season as the Rebels fell to eventual champions, the Miami Hurricanes, in a narrow 4-point defeat.
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