Lane Kiffin is staring down disastrous year one as offseason pleas for patience fall on deaf ears

One of the biggest, most consequential games of the season so far took place in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night — in the wake of a hurricane, no less — but a different game was taking place about six hours north on I-65 that was also rife with national implications.

The Kentucky Wildcats and LSU Tigers played an all-time classic of a college football game this weekend, with Big Blue Nation pulling off a stunner, downing the top-ten Tigers 35-34 in front of a sold-out crowd at Kroger Field.

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