How coaches returning to their former stomping grounds have fared - ESPN

The desire for revenge takes many forms in college football. Maybe your team wants to get one back on the program that derailed last season. Maybe a coach gets a shot at a school that fired him years ago. Maybe a mid-major takes full advantage of a coach who left the school as a stepping stone to something greater.

(That last category is my personal favorite. In 1975, Sonny Randle left East Carolina for Virginia after years of saying «Compare apples to apples» when his Pirates would get thumped by a bigger, better team. That fall, ECU visited Charlottesville and obliterated Randle's Cavaliers 61-10. As the story goes, ECU fans threw apples onto the field afterward.)

This week, we're focusing on a specific category of revenge: The Return of the Turncoat. On Saturday, Lane Kiffin will take the LSU Tigers to Oxford to face the Ole Miss team he ditched before last year's College Football Playoff began. In case the timing of the move — and the almost brazen way he seemed to be recruiting Ole Miss players to join his new team — wasn't enough, Kiffin also dug the knife in further by referencing segregation as a reason for his move this spring.

Few have ever embraced a heel turn like Kiffin, and in college football, heels have to play on the road just like anyone else. On Saturday evening, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium should be as much of a cauldron as it has ever been.

To commemorate the occasion, let's look back at 10 particularly fiery turncoat revenge situations. Sometimes, the home team harnesses the anger and turns it into something beautiful. Sometimes, it very much does not.

In 1962, Northwestern scored one of the costlier victories you'll see, pummeling Notre Dame 35-6. The win moved the Wildcats to No. 1 in the AP poll for