Lane Kiffin will return to Ole Miss in Week 3 of the 2026 season when LSU visits the Rebels

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We know when Lane Kiffin will be back at Vaught Hemingway Stadium.

The SEC revealed its 2026 football schedule on Thursday night and the new LSU coach won’t wait too long to visit his former employer. The Tigers are set to visit Ole Miss in Week 3 on Saturday, Sept. 19.

Kiffin dramatically left Ole Miss for LSU at the end of the 2025 regular season even though the Rebels were on the cusp of the College Football Playoff. Ole Miss is the No. 6 seed and will host Tulane on Dec. 20 in the first round of the playoff.

Ole Miss will be coached by former defensive coordinator Pete Golding in that game. Golding was promoted to head coach as Kiffin was in the process of heading to Baton Rouge on Nov. 30. While Kiffin won’t be on the sidelines for the Rebels in the College Football Playoff, many offensive assistants who followed him to Baton Rouge will be, including offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr.

Ole Miss beat LSU 24-19 in 2025. That game was also in Oxford, Mississippi. The SEC is moving to a nine-game conference schedule in 2026 as each team will play a rotating cast of six teams twice over four seasons and three teams every season for the next four years. Ole Miss and LSU are permanent rivals in the current SEC schedule setup, and LSU is making back-to-back trips to accommodate the logistics of the new SEC schedule. 

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