Lane Kiffin’s daughter, Landry, found herself taking heat online after expanding her SEC rooting interest over the weekend.
Landry, who has already shown support for her father’s LSU Tigers and for her boyfriend, linebacker Whit Weeks, also backed Ole Miss as a student there. But Saturday added another wrinkle: she cheered for Texas in the Red River Rivalry against Oklahoma, calling it “a change of scenery,” on social media.
That didn’t go over smoothly with everyone. Her Instagram comments filled up with pushback from fans who weren’t amused by the rotating allegiance.
“Just can’t pick a winning team 🤦,” one fan wrote. “Bro lsu AND Texas lost 😭😭 yo please don’t root for ole miss gang 🙏🏻,” another added.
A third chimed in, “Didn’t your boy play for LSU? 😂,”
Still, the moment was pretty harmless on its face - a college student at a major rivalry game, backing a team in a matchup that didn’t involve LSU or Ole Miss. In 2026, though, even a casual fan choice can turn into a social media pile-on.
While Landry was watching Texas fall to Oklahoma, her father was dealing with his own tough Saturday. Lane Kiffin’s LSU team was upset at Kentucky, a game that turned on mistakes LSU couldn’t afford. He pointed to a punt return for a touchdown as a key moment.
“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 said LSU let Kentucky stay alive long enough to take advantage late.
“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.”
With the loss, LSU fell to 4-2 on the season.
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