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College Football Week 3: Finally, It’s Time for Kiffin’s Return to Mississippi for Top-10 Showdown
ESPN's College GameDay is coming as Oxford braces for Lane Kiffin’s first trip back since leaving Ole Miss for LSU.
- LSU head coach Lane Kiffin returns to Oxford on Saturday, September 19, 2026, to face his former team, the Ole Miss Rebels, in a top-10 matchup at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.
- After six years rebuilding both his career and Ole Miss, Kiffin departed November 30, 2025, just 20 days before the Rebels' first College Football Playoff appearance, to take the LSU job.
- Ole Miss fan Jamie Cox said the departure was "harsh," adding that Kiffin's lack of communication with the fanbase intensified resentment about his abrupt exit.
- Amid reports of beefed-up security at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry joked this week that the National Guard might be needed to protect the visiting coach.
- The matchup marks the first top-10 meeting between Ole Miss and LSU since 1962, with playoff seeding implications potentially decided when rankings are released in December.
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College football Week 3: Finally, it's time for Kiffin's return to Mississippi for top-10 showdown
The nearly 10-month wait for Lane Kiffin's return to Oxford is almost over.
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