Oxford Police Department's Response To Lane Kiffin's Ole Miss Return Is Perfect

Lane Kiffin won't exactly receive a warm welcome when he returns to Ole Miss.

Kiffin made the tough decision to leave Ole Miss right before the start of the College Football Playoff to become LSU's head coach. He reportedly received a seven-year, $91 million contract from the Tigers.

Ole Miss managed to make the national semifinals despite losing Kiffin in late November. As you'd imagine, he's been public enemy No. 1 ever since he left Oxford for Baton Rouge. That being said, he'll be back in Mississippi on Sept. 19.

It was confirmed this week that LSU and Ole Miss will square off at 7:30 p.m. ET. This epic showdown will be televised by ABC, so there's a good chance Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit will be on the call.

Countless fans suggested there should be advanced security measures taken for this game in September.

"Honestly might need to call in the National Guard," one fan wrote on social media.

"They are going to need baseball style netting surrounding the entire student section for this one," another fan said.

The Oxford Police Department couldn't help but join the fun by responding with a GIF of Daryl from "The Office." This post received over one million views in under 12 hours.

Lane issued an apology to Ole Miss this week.

Vanity Fair highlighted Kiffin's polarizing career this month with an in-depth feature. During his conversation with the magazine, he talked about the recruiting disadvantage he faced in Oxford.

"[They would say], 'Hey, Coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren't letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi,'" Kiffin told Vanity Fair. "That doesn't come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus' diversity feels so great: 'It feels like there's no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that's the real world.'"

It didn't take long for Kiffin to issue an apology to Ole Miss.

"I really apologize if anybody at Ole Miss or in Mississippi was offended by that," Kiffin said, via ESPN. "In a four-hour interview, I was asked a lot of questions on a lot of things, and Ole Miss has been wonderful to me and to my family. I was asked questions about the differences in recruiting, and I said a narrative that we battled there from some out-of-state Black parents and grandparents was not wanting their kid to move to Mississippi. That's a narrative that coaches have been fighting forever. It wasn't calculated by bringing it up."

There's no question Kiffin will be booed the moment he steps on the field at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

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This story was originally published May 13, 2026 at 6:24 AM.