Reading: Landry Kiffin blasts vulgar banners accusing her in Ole Miss-LSU buildup

Landry Kiffin blasts vulgar banners accusing her in Ole Miss-LSU buildup

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Landry Kiffin said she was turned into a punchline of a sexual joke after several vulgar bed sheet banners went up around Ole Miss this week accusing her of having sex with a former player. She posted the response on TikTok on Wednesday night and called out the students behind the signs.

The 21-year-old, who is Lane Kiffin’s oldest daughter and still attends Ole Miss, said she never knew the player in question and was stunned that people would hang something so explicit from a house. “I understand emotions are high this week, and people are upset, but I’m my own person,” she said, adding that she would “never understand how someone can feel good about themselves putting such vulgar things about a girl on a giant banner hanging from their house.”

The banners landed in the middle of a charged week around the Ole Miss-LSU game, with Lane Kiffin returning to Oxford as the head coach of the LSU Tigers and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry calling for military backup. Lane Kiffin has also acknowledged there were legitimate safety issues awaiting him on the sideline, underscoring how much attention the matchup has drawn before kickoff.

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What makes the episode more pointed is that the banners appeared to lean on a rumor that has circulated in Oxford for a long time, even though the source of the claim is not identified. Fans have linked that rumor to why a former Ole Miss player was essentially benched last season, but Landry Kiffin said the version being spread online and around campus was aimed at someone she has genuinely never met in her life.

She said she hoped people would remember there is “an actual person behind the jokes people make.” For now, that is where the story sits: a campus rumor, a public humiliation campaign and a game week that is already testing how far Ole Miss can keep the noise outside the stadium.

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