LSU coach Lane Kiffin got one last dig in at his old team on Wednesday when discussing the Tigers' loss to Ole Miss on Saturday in Oxford.
After Ole Miss got past LSU in a tight contest, Kiffin referred to the big game as Ole Miss' "Super Bowl." Yes, he really said that after losing to the team he used to coach.
“If it wasn’t for the name, Ole Miss, and if it was more of a traditional name that we were playing, we hadn’t coached at before, how would everybody be feeling if, in your third game of your first year of a program, you went to Ohio State and came all the way back?” Kiffin asked in the media session, per On3's Daniel Hager. “The quarterback didn’t play very — ours [Sam Leavitt] didn’t play very well, and theirs played lights out. I’m
sure after three games, he would be named the Heisman winner.
“So, I think when you look at it that way and say, OK, man, their Super Bowl, then all the stuff around it, all the energy in the stadium, everything, and we’re right there at the end with multiple chances to win the game. We got to learn from that and finish when we’re in that type of situation again.”
Yikes.
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If LSU has a worse season than Ole Miss this fall, one could look back on this quote and see Saturday's game as LSU's Super Bowl... one it did not win.
Who does LSU play this week?
The team hosts Texas A&M on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Lane Kiffin bitterly called LSU-Ole Miss the latter's 'Super Bowl'
