This is an article version of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, the ultimate guide to every day in sports. Lane Kiffin has a knack for being the villain -- intentionally or unintentionally. He'll play the role of super villain on Saturday night when he leads No. 7 LSU into Oxford for a showdown with No. 8 Ole Miss.
With Kiffin ditching the Rebels right before the College Football Playoff to accept his current gig with the Tigers, there will be a lot of bad blood in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find a kind word about Kiffin in that environment. That will certainly be the the case thanks to the latest nugget our own John Talty dropped about Kiffin's departure from Ole Miss in his just-released book "Lane Being Lane," which is available now.
The scene chronicles how, in the immediate aftermath of the Rebels' top-15 win over Oklahoma, Kiffin already had his eyes on another job. Few games epitomize college football as much as this one. A spurned fan base is getting ready to greet its former coach with whatever the polar opposite of southern hospitality is, and the Oxford Police Department is calling in reinforcements ahead of Kiffin's arrival.
So, will Ole Miss get its revenge on Kiffin, or will the LSU coach have the last laugh? Brad Crawford and Chris Hummer predicted the final score in their Week 3 picks. They say you shouldn't overreact to Week 1 of the NFL season.
Well, perhaps someone should have told that to our own John Breech, who has predicted the entire 2026 NFL playoff bracket after the robust sample size that is Week 1. Notably absent are the 0-1 Cowboys, and notable present are the Falcons and Broncos -- both also 0-1. The really interesting part comes a couple rounds into the predicions.
Breech has Josh Allen and the Bills reaching the AFC Championship again. Is this the year they finally break through for a Super Bowl appearance? The Ravens are simply too much.
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