Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin ahead of No. 6 Tennessee facing No. 3 Alabama: ‘Go Vols’

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Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin may have bolted the University of Tennessee in 2009 after just one season, but it appears that he still has some fond memories of Knoxville. 

The Rebels, sitting at 6-0 and No. 9 in the country to start their season, are playing their own game against a school from Alabama on Saturday. 

Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin on the sideline during the NCAA football game between the Ole Miss Rebels and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on September 17th, 2022, at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, GA.   (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Ole Miss is taking on 3-3 Auburn at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi, but Kiffin’s old team is not far from his mind. 

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"If you think I don’t know that Tennessee is playing Alabama, I mean, who doesn’t know that," Kiffin said Saturday morning on "College Gameday."

"I don’t know what to say except for, ‘Hey, let’s go beat the state of Alabama today. Go Vols.’" 

Kiffin is well aware of the rivalry between the two schools, having lost in heartbreaking fashion in 2009. 

Tennessee nearly beat Saban for the first time with Kiffin as head coach, but the Vols had a 44-yard field goal attempt blocked as time expired, and Alabama escaped with a 12-10 win. 

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Tennessee has not managed to get closer than Kiffin did in recent years and has lost by at least 22 points in the last six matchups. 

Since Saban joined Alabama in 2007, the Crimson Tide are 15-0 against Tennessee, a losing streak that the