Lane Kiffin’s daughter, Landry, once again found herself in the crosshairs of Ole Miss supporters after wearing a striking yellow dress to show her support for her father’s LSU team during Saturday night’s heated rivalry game.
Landry, 21, remains an Ole Miss student despite her father’s widely publicized $90 million move to LSU last November. She is completing her business degree remotely while living in Baton Rouge.
She has also been in a relationship with LSU linebacker Whit Weeks since last year, and made her allegiance clear during the much-anticipated matchup in Oxford, Mississippi.
In a series of TikTok videos, Landry documented her preparations for game night before choosing a bright yellow Prada dress for the occasion.
Before kickoff, she took a selfie on the field while watching the teams warm up and captioned it “LFG.” She later headed to her suite to follow the action.
Her appearance came days after allegedly offensive banners appeared around the Ole Miss campus, making unverified sexual references involving Landry and a former Rebels player.
Lane Kiffin’s daughter Landry showed her support for LSU in a bright yellow dress
Landry posed for a pregame selfie on the field as she watched the teams warm up
Before the rivalry game, Landry asked Rebels fans to stop displaying sexually explicit banners aimed at ridiculing her and her family.
“I normally don’t respond to any hateful posts around game days, but this one actually hurts,” Landry, who holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, said in a TikTok video. “I’m still a student at Ole Miss. I’ve loved my time here, and I love Ole Miss, so that’s what makes all of this even more upsetting.”
She said she had seen images of banners displayed on homes around Oxford and shared online. “They were saying really inappropriate things about me and somebody that I genuinely have never met in my life,” she said, adding that the situation was “even more frustrating, to say the least.”
“I think turning a girl into the punchline of a sexual joke because you’re upset with someone she’s related to should not be okay,” Landry continued. “I understand emotions are high this week and people are upset, but I’m my own person.”
“I will just never understand how someone can feel good about themselves putting such vulgar things about a girl on a giant banner hanging from their house,” she added. “I just hope people realize there’s an actual person behind the jokes they make.”
LSU’s team bus arrived without incident, although Ole Miss took the unusual measure of placing tall, blue-covered chain-link fences around the area to block the view.
Even so, some fans waited for a glimpse of the tops of the LSU buses and shouted insults—including obscenities—as players made the short trip to the visiting locker room.
When Kiffin stepped onto the field, he was greeted by loud boos from Ole Miss fans dressed in red and blue. Many held up their phones to record his return.
Several prominent LSU figures watched warmups from the sideline, including Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill.
Kiffin’s agent, Jimmy Sexton, was talking with LSU president Wade Rousse when a practice punt took an unexpected bounce and hit Rousse on the side of the head.
Landry continues to attend Ole Miss while completing her studies after her father’s $90 million move to LSU
Landry Kiffin, left, is pictured with LSU alum Livvy Dunne before a recent Tigers game
LSU star Whit Weeks is dating Landry Kiffin, the daughter of his Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin
Just in case there were any lingering doubts where Kiffin now stands with Ole Miss fans, the Rebel faithful made their feelings crystal clear earlier on Saturday during ESPN’s College GameDay.
Speaking via satellite from the team’s hotel in Oxford, Kiffin’s face was projected onto a large screen overlooking the throngs of students and Rebels fans.
Almost immediately, chants of ‘a**hole’ began to ring out from the group.
‘I really appreciate you guys gaslighting them with this,’ Kiffin told the ESPN panel.
And as if that weren’t enough, fans naturally brought some derisive signs to the College GameDay broadcast.
‘I’m 10 and I make better decisions than Lane,’ read a sign held by one young Ole Miss fan.
One young woman brought a sign humorously suggesting she and Kiffin previously dated: ‘Why is my ex here?’
Kiffin did try to defuse the tension at a few moments, once telling the panel: ‘It’s not about me. Both teams have great players, great coaches, [I] have a lot of respect for their program.’
Meanwhile, chants of ‘a**hole’ continued to rage in the background.
It was the latest in a growing buildup for the first top-10 matchup between No. 7 LSU and eighth-ranked Ole Miss since 1962.
It started when Kiffin left the Rebels to take the LSU job and a $91 million contract just as the team he had coached for six years was days away from its first appearance in the College Football Playoff.
Kiffin wanted to stay through the playoff but Ole Miss moved on to coach Pete Golding and advanced to the CFP semifinals. LSU finished 7-6, capped by a loss in the Texas Bowl.
The off-field storylines haven’t stopped since. Kiffin’s comments about whether Black players could be recruited to Ole Miss, lawsuits alleging Ole Miss transfers owe big money for reneging on their NIL deals and LSU’s now-abandoned defiance of rules against rostering former pro players have only brightened the spotlight for this one.
