Lane Kiffin explains if he expects LSU to have a chip on their shoulder after last year’s game
This weekend’s electric college football slate features a rematch of one of the best shootouts from last season. As No. 9 ranked Ole Miss travels down to No. 13 LSU for a rematch of the Rebels’ 55-49 home victory last season.
Both teams will have some familiar faces from last season’s epic SEC showdown, a game that Ole Miss likely remembers a lot more fondly than the Tigers. Which led to Rebels’ head coach Lane Kiffin being asked if he believes LSU will have a chip on their shoulder given last year’s outcome.
“I don’t know that, they got new staff and and Brian [Kelly] does a great job. I think he’s all time active, winningest college coach,” Kiffin said. “You got to make hard changes to be a successful head coach and I’m sure that was challenging for him, and you gotta do what some best interest are the team.”
The Tigers notably lost three first-round draft picks and major contributors to last season’s offense with Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers, and Brian Thomas all no longer with the program. But new players and staffers have emerged now with Joe Sloan now calling the plays for the offense and Blake Baker serving as the defensive coordinator.
“But every year is independent, every team’s independent of every other game. So I don’t know that there’s much relative to last year,” Kiffin said. “Because I think as you see in college football, you can’t even say what’s relative a week ago. How somebody plays and how they play against this team, and then the next week that’s gonna matter, and then it doesn’t matter at all.”
“So I think every week’s always independent every season’s independent, and I don’t know why it feels even more than ever that you better get your team motivated and right each week or you’re going to lose.”
Ole Miss fell victim to the competitive, week-to-week nature of this college football season after suffering an upset loss to Kentucky in Week 5. As the Rebels and Tigers will both look to keep their SEC title and College Football Playoff hopes alive this weekend in The Bayou.
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