Mississippi State Police provided departing coach Lane Kiffin a police escort to catch his flight to Baton Rouge and said his claims of fans "trying to run him off the road" were false.

The escort using multiple police vehicles to safeguard Kiffin's transport to the airport was confirmed by Mississippi's Department of Public Safety in response to Kiffin's claims he and son, Knox, were endangered by rabid fans on the drive to their private jet to Louisiana.

"Knox and I driving and people trying to run us off the road, things that were said to us, that's the SEC," Kiffin said Sunday in Baton Rouge.

"Call a cop that you know so they'll help you," Kiffin said at his introductory press conference on Sunday. "Because you personally know them because you are leaving the state. And you gotta tu

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