Lane Kiffin’s family had a busy football weekend, and his daughter Landry managed to stir up plenty of reaction along the way.
Landry Kiffin, a student at Ole Miss, has made a habit of spreading her support around the SEC. She has shown love for her dad’s LSU Tigers, backed her boyfriend Whit Weeks - a linebacker at LSU - and also pulls for the Rebels because that’s where she goes to school. On Saturday, she added one more team to the mix by cheering for Texas in the Red River Rivalry Game against Oklahoma.
She described the moment by posting, “a change of scenery,” but not everybody appreciated the rotating allegiance. Her Instagram comments filled up with criticism and jokes about the mixed rooting interests.
“Just can’t pick a winning team 🤦,” one fan wrote. Another added, “Bro lsu AND Texas lost 😭😭 yo please don’t root for ole miss gang 🙏🏻,” while a third asked, “Didn’t your boy play for LSU?
😂,”
In the end, Landry was at a major rivalry game and having fun, and neither LSU nor Ole Miss was on the field. Still, in 2026, social media is never short on opinions, and she took her share of them.
While Landry was backing Texas in a loss to Oklahoma, Lane Kiffin was dealing with his own frustration after LSU fell at Kentucky. He said the game came down to execution, pointing to a punt return touchdown by Kentucky.
“If you don’t execute, you don’t execute,” Kiffin told reporters. “The punt return, you got a player there tackling him and doesn’t tackle him, and he goes outside and, you know, on the long run, he swooped out of a gap and the ball goes for a long run. If you don’t do fundamentally sound stuff, you get exposed versus good teams.”
Kiffin also pointed to LSU’s inability to finish once the game tightened in the fourth quarter.
“When the chance comes in the fourth quarter, you can’t let ’em hang around,” Kiffin told reporters. “We had the ball ahead and then we turned the ball over.
And another chance to end it there so they don’t get it back. Obviously, things go the other way, you look at yourself first.”
LSU fell to 4-2 after the loss.
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