Updated
Updated · Yahoo Sports · Sep 20
Ole Miss Beats LSU 32-24 as Joenel Aguero Snubs Lane Kiffin Postgame
Updated
Updated · Yahoo Sports · Sep 20

Ole Miss Beats LSU 32-24 as Joenel Aguero Snubs Lane Kiffin Postgame

3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Sports · Sep 20

Summary

  • Joenel Aguero drew attention after Ole Miss’s 32-24 win over LSU by appearing to refuse Lane Kiffin’s postgame handshake, turning away to celebrate with teammates as the former Rebels coach was left waiting.
  • The snub capped Kiffin’s hostile return to Oxford, where fans booed him throughout the day and anti-Kiffin chants broke through ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast.
  • 70,033 fans packed Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, and security was unusually heavy — more than 80 state troopers, a helicopter and barriers around LSU buses — reflecting fears tied to Kiffin’s 2025 exit for LSU.
  • That departure, made two days after Ole Miss’s Egg Bowl win with a College Football Playoff berth still pending, has kept Kiffin a villain in Oxford even as new coach Pete Golding has won fan support.

Insights

Will the rejected handshake and hostile return haunt Lane Kiffin's LSU tenure, or is this just a minor setback?
Did Lane Kiffin's controversial departure actually give Ole Miss the stable leadership they needed for a championship run?
After a bitter betrayal and a dramatic goal-line stand, could this emotional victory propel Ole Miss to a College Football Playoff?