Video: LSU's Brian Kelly Appears to Shade Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin over Coca-Cola Remark

After Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin went viral for criticizing Coca-Cola, LSU football coach Brian Kelly took a different approach to speaking about the company on Wednesday.

"Just a shout out to our sponsor, Coke," Kelly said as he took the podium for his press conference. "Smartwater, great Coke product. Minerals, vitamins, it's just great for you. It's refreshing, healthy. Coke provides you all the products that you need."

Kelly's remarks came two days after Kiffin went on a tangent after seeing a bottle of Coca-Cola on his own podium.

"Does anybody drink Coke?" Kiffin asked reporters, adding, "130 percent of your sugar for the entire day is in this one bottle."

Kiffin took the helm at Ole Miss in 2020 after three seasons spent coaching Florida Atlantic, while Kelly spent 12 seasons with Notre Dame before joining LSU on a 10-year contract in 2022.

This is not the first time the rival head coaches have appeared to troll one another in public comments since first joining the SEC.

Kiffin poked fun at a TikTok of Kelly posing for a Glambot photo with tight end recruit Danny Lewis Jr. in 2022.

The LSU football account responded, but only after Kelly and the Tigers had beaten Ole Miss during the 2022-23 season:

Kiffin brought up the 2022 video again while also trolling Missouri head coach Eliah Drinkwitz on X in June:

After the tangent at the end of Kiffin's press conference went viral for its apparent randomness, it seems Kelly could not resist poking his longtime rival once more.

The two coaches will meet again on Oct. 12 when Ole Miss travels to Baton Rouge for a Saturday night matchup against LSU.

Ole Miss is currently ranked No. 6, the program's highest preseason ranking in decades, by the Associated Press. The LSU matchup will be a must-watch game this fall, both because it is arguably the toughest matchup on the Tigers' schedule, and because of the always-entertaining rivalry between the teams' coaches.