Mark Story, Lexington Herald-Leader
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin will be on the visiting sideline at Kroger Field Saturday afternoon. If history holds, that means Lexington will play host to an epic college football drama.
Four previous times — three times at Ole Miss, once at Tennessee — Kiffin has coached against Kentucky.
In all four of those games, the outcome was not decided until the final minute of regulation (twice) or until overtime (twice).
This year, the stakes for “Kiffin vs. Kentucky V” are unusually keen.
Kiffin and the No. 21 Rebels (1-0, 0-0 SEC) will be out to avenge a 20-17 loss to UK last season in Oxford that, essentially, kept Ole Miss from making the College Football Playoff.
Meanwhile, mired in multiple negative streaks, Kentucky head man M