WATCH: LSU drops hype video ahead of Ole Miss showdown

It’s been an eventful week for the LSU Tigers but despite the off field noise, attention now turns to Saturday’s game against Ole Miss. The Tigers dropped a hype video ahead of Saturday’s road trip to Oxford as the 4-3 Tigers take on the 5-1 Rebels.

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It was a bittersweet weekend for LSU, as the Tigers upset No. 20 Florida 49-42, despite missing five defensive starters and top wide receiver Kayshon Boutte, who will miss the remainder of the season due to a leg injury. Despite the win, Ed Orgeron and LSU reached a separation agreement and the head coach will not return in 2022.

Orgeron will finish the 2021 campaign before he is formally dismissed. The head coach boasts a 46-17 record in six seasons at the helm of LSU, and he won a national championship in 2019 — a season in which the Tigers finished 15-0 and put together arguably the greatest season in college football history. However, since the 2019 season, the wheels fell off, on and off the field, prompting pressing discussion on Orgeron’s future. The Tigers lost a load of talent to the NFL Draft after the national championship season and went 5-5 in the 2020 season. This season, the situation worsened as LSU is 4-3 with losses to UCLA, Auburn and Kentucky.

Coming off the high of the win, and the low of the news that Orgeron won’t return, LSU now turns the page a road trip to Oxford to take on Lane Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels.

Ole Miss boasts the third ranked offense in the country powered by quarterback Matt Corral. Corral has emerged as a Heisman contender, throwing for 1,728 yards and 14 touchdowns, while rushing for another 450 yards and eight touchdowns.

Ahead of the matchup, Ed Orgeron heaped praise on Lane Kiffin.

“I think that Lane is if not the best play-caller in the country, one of the top three best play-callers in the country,” Orgeron stated. “He has an outstanding football minds he’s doing a great job at Ole Miss. I’m very happy for him. I know that he’s a fighter, and that he comes from a football family. I know he’s going to have his team ready to play.”

Kiffin and Orgeron have history, and the Tigers headman recalled his first meeting with Kiffin during Monday’s press conference.

“I remember I was with Pete Carroll and he asked me a question,” Orgeron said. “He said, ‘I can hire an older, experienced coach or I can hire a young, go-getting coach that I think can help us in recruiting.’ I said, ‘Well, why don’t we get a guy that can help us in recruiting?’ It was Lane Kiffin. He was a young coach at Colorado State. I remember sitting in the recruiting meeting and we were evaluating some talent. I liked the guy and Lane didn’t. He was right. He earned my respect.”

Orgeron served as the defensive coordinator under Kiffin at USC from 2010-13. When Kiffin was fired, Orgeron took over as the Trojans’ interim head coach. He led them to a 6-2 record to finish out the year.

On Saturday, the two old friends reunite on opposite sidelines. Ole Miss hosts LSU at 3:30 p.m. EST.