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Lane Kiffin on feud between Louisiana, Mississippi governors: 'It's not The Hunger Games'

Barkley-Truaxby: Barkley Truax12/20/25BarkleyTruax

The beef between Louisiana and Mississippi governors over Lane Kiffin has continued on social media over the past several weeks. The new LSU coach has finally chimed in as the voice of reason.

“It’s not the Hunger Games guys,” Kiffin tweeted. “Let’s both cheer for each other all year long except when we play each other.”

The social media beef between Mississippi governor Tate Reeves and Louisiana governor Jeff Landry began on Dec. 3 after Ole Miss great Eli Manning tweeted his reaction to Kiffin revealing in his LSU introductory press conference that a Rebels fan tried to run him off the road on the way to the airport. Reeves responded to Manning with a quote tweet that read: More Eli. Less Lane.

This is when Landry chimed in, posting a short video edit of Kiffin and his parting statement from Ole Miss with ‘Look at me now’ by Chris Brown with a ‘Go Tigers’ at the end. Reeves fired back with some “good news.”

“The #1 football team in Louisiana (Tulane) – and the only one to ever make the 12 team College Football Playoff – plays in Mississippi tomorrow afternoon!!” Reeves wrote. “You don’t have to wait until next year to visit Oxford.”

Landry would respond on Saturday morning, telling Reeves to “enjoy today with the team our coach built.” And that he’ll “see ya next year when you have to build your own.”

This led to Kiffin’s tweet, sharing the often quoted Step Brothers line of: ‘Did we just become best friend?’ It remains to be seen if Kiffin’s tweet will squash the beef between the two conservative leaders. Perhaps, at least on social media.

Kiffin led Ole Miss to a historic 11-1 start to the season, earning the Rebels a No. 7 seed in the CFP. However, his jump to a rival SEC program led to the Rebels brass naming Pete Golding the next head coach while keeping Kiffin from coaching the team in the playoffs.

This led to many criticizing the current structure of college football’s calendar. It’s unclear whether there will be any adjustments made during the offseason to address these issues.

Ole Miss will play Tulane on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET in the second game of a College Football Playoff triple-header. The game will air live on TNT and truTV.