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Lane Kiffin's daughter Landry risked the wrath of Ole Miss fans again as she wore a bright yellow dress in support of her father's LSU to their grudge match on Saturday night.
Landry, 21, is still an Ole Miss student after her father's notorious $90 million defection to LSU last November. However, she is now finishing her degree remotely from Baton Rouge.
She has also been dating LSU's star linebacker Whit Weeks since last year and made no effort to hide who she was cheering for during the big game in Oxford, Mississippi.
Landry posted several TikToks of herself getting ready for the big night and eventually her look consisted of a bright yellow Prada dress.
She posed for a selfie on the field before kickoff, where she watched warm ups, and captioned the post 'LFG' before heading up to her suite to watch the game.
It comes after banners linking Landry sexually with a former Rebels player allegedly surfaced in and around the Oxford campus this week.
Lane Kiffin's daughter Landry wore a bright yellow dress in support of her father's LSU team
Landry also posed for a selfie on the field before kickoff, where she watched warm ups
Ahead of the game, Landry pleaded with Rebels fans to stop hanging sexually inappropriate banners aimed at mocking her and her family.
'I normally don't respond to any hateful posts around game days, but this one actually hurts,' Landry, who has her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, said on TikTok. 'I'm still a student at Ole Miss. I've loved my time here, and I love Ole Miss, so that's what kind of makes this all even more upsetting.
'I opened my phone this morning to pictures of banners on houses around Oxford posted on different accounts, saying really inappropriate things about me and with somebody that I genuinely have never met in my life, which makes it even more frustrating to say the least,' she continued.
'I think that turning a girl into the punchline of a sexual joke because you're upset at somebody she's related to should not be okay. 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. I feel like that's really mind blowing to me. I just hope people realize that there's like an actual person behind the jokes that they make, but I don't know.'
The Tigers got into the stadium without incident, as Ole Miss took the unusual step of setting up tall chain-link fences with a blue covering to obscure the view.
Some fans still waited until they could see the tops of LSU's buses and unloaded insults, some including obscenities, as the team made the short walk to the visitors' locker room.
When Kiffin took the field, he was booed by red-and-blue clad Ole Miss fans, many of whom also had their phones held high to capture video.
A handful of LSU dignitaries stood along the sideline during warmups, including Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill.
Kiffin's agent, Jimmy Sexton, was on the field speaking with LSU president Wade Rousse when a practice punt took an odd bounce and struck Rousse in the side of the head.
Landry still attends Ole Miss after her father Lane's $90 million defection to LSU last year
Landry Kiffin (left) is pictured alongside 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.
