Lane Kiffin alleges Ole Miss fans tried to chase him 'off the road' while leaving Oxford for LSU coaching job

The latest Lane Kiffin saga yet ended erstwhile helium near for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this past Sunday. 

But Kiffin aboriginal revealed that immoderate Ole Miss fans created a rocky way to the Oxford, Mississippi, airport. He claimed that a radical of unhappy fans attempted to pursuit his car "off the road."

Kiffin was formally introduced arsenic LSU's adjacent caput manager connected Monday. During the quality conference, helium outlined the imaginativeness helium hoped to bring to beingness during his tenure, but helium besides went into item astir his evident request for constabulary assistance during the tense infinitesimal successful question.

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Mississippi caput manager Lane Kiffin watches his squad play against Oklahoma during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled successful Norman, Oklahoma, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

"Call a bull that you cognize truthful they'll assistance you," Kiffin said. "Because you personally cognize them due to the fact that you are leaving the state. And you gotta crook around, and radical are screaming astatine you, you know, trying to tally you disconnected the road. I don't cognize what they're gonna do. And truthful that ... That affects you."

While Kiffin acknowledged Ole Miss fans' passion, helium besides suggested his acquisition during his airdrome travel served arsenic confirmation of his determination to permission Oxford.

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"And that airdrome scene, and each the things being said, I recognize that. It's the passion. But they're saying that astir you, that you thought you did a truly bully occupation for six years for them. And that affects you. And adjacent connected the level down determination I'm benignant of similar 'Yeah we made this determination but like, deity I truly ...' You know?"

Head shot manager Lane Kiffin and Athletic Director Verge Ausberry of the LSU Tigers get astatine the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport connected Nov. 30, 2025 successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  (Gus Stark/University Images via Getty Images)

Kiffin coached the Rebels to triumph implicit Mississippi State successful the Egg Bowl rivalry crippled past Friday to unafraid an 11-1 grounds for Ole Miss. While Ole Miss did not suffice for this week's SEC Championship Game successful Atlanta, the seventh-ranked Rebels are successful presumption to apt beforehand to the College Football Playoff.

But, Kiffin volition not beryllium connected the sideline for Ole Miss. After reportedly gathering with Ole Miss diversion manager Keith Carter and schoolhouse chancellor Glenn Boyce, Kiffin learned his clip coaching the Rebels had travel to an end.

"I was hoping to implicit a historical six-season tally with this year's squad by starring Ole Miss done the playoffs, capitalizing connected the team's unthinkable occurrence and their committedness to decorativeness strong, and investing everything into a playoff tally with guardrails successful spot to support the programme successful immoderate areas of concern," Kiffin said successful a statement. 

LSU shot caput manager Lane Kiffin speaks astatine South Stadium Club astatine Tiger Stadium connected Dec. 1, 2025 successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Matthew Hinton/Imagn Images)

"My petition to bash truthful was denied by Keith Carter contempt the squad besides asking him to let maine to support coaching them truthful they could amended support their precocious level of performance. Unfortunately, that means Friday's Egg Bowl was my past crippled coaching the Rebels."

Defensive coordinator Pete Golding volition measurement into the caput coaching occupation for Ole Miss' presumed playoff run. Kiffin finished his six-year tenure successful Oxford with a 55-19 record, making him the third-winningest manager successful schoolhouse history.

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As for his adjacent chapter, Kiffin thanked the LSU fans who met him astatine Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport and said the reception near him feeling vindicated.

"I saw the committee there, and I saw the leadership," helium said. "And I felt the powerfulness of this place. And past I get successful the car. And arsenic we're driving retired and there's the fans. Just each of them retired determination astatine the airport. And their excitement and their passion."

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