Rebels gets revenge on Lane Kiffin: Best moments from LSU-Ole Miss — SkimNews
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- Ole Miss defeated LSU 32-24, erasing a 17-point deficit before Trinidad Chambliss's touchdown run gave them the lead and Jaylon Braxton sealed the win with an end-zone interception of Sam Leavitt.
- Lane Kiffin was booed heartily by Ole Miss fans upon his team's arrival at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and again as he exited at halftime after the Rebels built a big first-half lead.
- Ole Miss stadium staff trolled LSU postgame by playing "Callin' Baton Rouge" by Garth Brooks and "Neck" by Jay Da Wizard over the public-address system in their own stadium.
- Morgan Freeman joined Matthew McConaughey as the only Oscar winners ever to serve as guest pickers on ESPN's "College GameDay"; Freeman was raised in Mississippi.
- Mississippi dispatched more than 60 highway patrolmen to Oxford for added security, while Louisiana governor Jeff Landry joked he would send fighter jets and military transports for the Tigers; no major incidents were reported.
- Pete Golding, Kiffin's former defensive coordinator who was elevated to Ole Miss head coach when Kiffin departed, led the Rebels to the College Football Playoff semifinals and shared a friendly pregame moment with his old boss.
Why it matters: Ole Miss turned Kiffin's hyped homecoming into their own revenge spectacle — boos on arrival, jeers at halftime, and a postgame trolling soundtrack blasting "Callin' Baton Rouge" in their own building. For LSU, a loss in a rivalry they were favored to win complicates their trajectory before a demanding SEC stretch; for Kiffin personally, it extends the pattern of hostile returns to former stops that has followed his career.
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