Lane Kiffin’s daughter, Landry, has made a habit of spreading her SEC support around, and that flexibility drew plenty of eye rolls online over the weekend.
The LSU coach’s daughter has obviously shown love for her father’s Tigers, and she’s also backing her boyfriend, linebacker Whit Weeks. At the same time, she’s a student at Ole Miss and has been rooting for the Rebels, too. Then came another twist: she added Texas to the list while watching the Red River Rivalry Game against Oklahoma.
“a change of scenery,” she wrote.
That was enough to set off criticism in her Instagram comments. Some fans took playful shots at her divided loyalties, while others were more pointed.
“Just can’t pick a winning team 🤦,” one fan joked. “Bro lsu AND Texas lost 😭😭 yo please don’t root for ole miss gang 🙏🏻,” one fan added.
“Didn’t your boy play for LSU? 😂,” one fan added.
Landry Kiffin was simply enjoying a big college football game that didn’t involve LSU or Ole Miss, but social media in 2026 doesn’t exactly reward casual fandom.
While she was pulling for Texas in a loss to Oklahoma, her father had his own rough Saturday. Lane Kiffin’s LSU team took an upset loss at Kentucky, and he made clear afterward that execution was the difference.
“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 failure to close things out when it had the chance.
“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.”
The loss dropped LSU to 4-2 on the year.
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