ESPN Ranks College Football's Greatest Supervillains Of All Time

By Staff ReporterAug 6, 20263:06 pmDiscuss the story16
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Love him or hate him, Lane Kiffin has never been boring.

ESPN ranked LSU's first-year head coach No. 2 on its list of college football's greatest "supervillains" of all time, pointing to his headline-making coaching stops and predicting an explosive return to Oxford when the Tigers face Ole Miss in Week 3.

As for the No. 1 villain, it was Steve Spurrier.

But here's what they had to say about Kiffin:
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2. Lane Kiffin

The Lane Train is worse at breaking up than Pete Davidson. But he also can't quit doing it. If you want to spend an uncomfortable hour, watch Al Davis' "I fired Lane Kiffin from the Raiders" news conference. At Tennessee, prospective students are shown Neyland Stadium, Ayres Hall and the giant rock on campus where it was painted "F--- Lane Kiffin" the night he bolted Knoxville for USC. He was fired from USC on the LAX tarmac. He was told by Nick Saban to go on and leave for Florida Atlantic instead of coaching in the national championship game because he was too distracted. And even after working so hard on changing how people viewed him, he couldn't help himself last fall when he exited Ole Miss for Magnolia Bowl rival LSU, and in the middle of what he continued to portray as an excruciatingly painful decision, he dropped a reference to "segregation" in a Vanity Fair interview when comparing his new gig to his old one.

When LSU visits Ole Miss the night of Week 3, it's going to be all the worst parts of the Ole, er, Old Testament, but instead of raining fireballs from heaven, it'll be pouring Fireball out of airplane bottles.
16 Comments
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keks tadpole4 hours
Quite possibly the worst journalism ever written in the annals of sports history
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TheRouxGuru35 min
lol. You said annals
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LoneStarTiger3 hours
No Joe Paterno for running a pedo ring?
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T1gerNate4 hours
idiotic
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dbowe824 hours
Too many figs at ESPN these days. All of those jobs save maybe USC (back then at least) are little brother jobs. He’s at a real program now.
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ESPN reached out to Coach Kiffen for comment. His only response was: “frick you soft bitches”.
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tiger1092 hours
Where did Saban land on the list?
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Bill W Tiger2 hours
ESPN...did any of your reporters that did this story take an English class in high school? The story has very poor grammer and is very poorly punctuated!
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Bill W Tiger2 hours
sorry about that...it should be grammar...guess ESPN is rubbing off on me!
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reauxl tigers3 hours
Media driven villain*
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Chill Pill3 hours
I actually think that article is funny as hell. The commentary on all the others is hilarious.
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KCT13 min
Disney/ESPN sucks donkey balls. I haven't watched their regular programming in several years.
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Whatever happens in the future, I'm enjoying every moment we have with him as the so-called "conceived villain."
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NebraskaExPat38 min
This was actually a funny article to read. I only disagree with their selections in that I think the NCAA would be number one.
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NotaStarGazer1 hour
Some complaints (Tennessee in particular was legit). Quoting Al Davis on ANYTHING is laughable! And Kiffin did NOTHING wrong leaving Ole Miss at the time he left. Blame the neverending playoffs, the transfer portal window timing, and the closeness to the final NSD. And Kiffin bent over backwards as she offered to not only coach Ole Miss throught the playoffs but also to let every coach stay there through the playoffs. That part of the article proves that the author of this is incredibly biased, football ignorant, or both.
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Bayou2 hours
They did get Spurrier correct. What a Dick!
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