Lane Kiffin's visit to Oxford isn't the first time a coach made an unwelcome return to his former school

By now, most of you are painfully aware of the game taking place in Oxford, Mississippi, this weekend between LSU and Ole Miss.

It's less of a game and more a national event, given the added stakes of Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin making his return to Vaught Hemingway Stadium for the first time since leaving the Rebels in the lurch to make his way to Baton Rouge.

There will be plenty of bad blood to go around for all parties involved, but this kind of "reunion" isn't entirely unprecedented.

Prominent head coaches will, occasionally, leave their teams on less than ideal terms, and when they make the return trip to the place they used to call home, it can get a little toxic.

With that in mind, I decided to take a look at a few other times head coaches made their way back to the schools that used to employ them and how those trips compared to Kiffin's welcome committee in Oxford.

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Some of these went a little more amicably than others, but all were fairly noteworthy, so let's dive in.

Before he became the unquestioned GOAT in the annals of college football, Nick Saban was a wildly successful coach at LSU in the early to mid-2000s.

After a pair of SEC Championships and a national title during his five-year tenure with the Tigers, Saban departed for the NFL, leaving many folks on the bayou feeling embittered and betrayed.

Following an unremarkable pair of seasons with the Miami Dolphins, Saban decided it was time to return to the college ranks, opting to don the headset at LSU's biggest rival, Alabama, in 2007.

Tiger fans would only have to wait one year before their former head coach made his way back to Death Valley, as the top-ranked Crimson Tide made their way to Baton Rouge to play 15th-ranked LSU.

The atmosphere around the game was tense and filled with anger and resentment toward Saban, and it didn't help that the Tide escaped with a 27-21 overtime win to effectively knock the Bayou Bengals out of the SEC Championship hunt.

Saban was given a police escort out of the stadium, and years later, the six-time national champion would call leaving LSU the biggest mistake of his career.

Throughout the entirety of the 90s and into the early 2000s, Steve Spurrier and Florida football were synonymous with one another.

The Head Ball Coach won a Heisman Trophy in 1966 while quarterbacking the Gators, and when he returned to roam the sidelines in 1990, he fulfilled the prophecy of "awakening the sleeping giant" once uttered by Alabama legend Paul "Bear" Bryant.

Six SEC Championships and one national title later, and Spurrier figured he had accomplished all he needed to, leaving the friendly confines of The Swamp - the name he gave to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - for an NFL coaching gig with the Washington Redskins in 2002.

Much like Nick Saban, Spurrier wasn't long for the pros, returning to the SEC in 2005 as the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks.

This didn't sit well with a majority of Gator fans, seeing their visor-clad Messiah coaching an SEC East rival, and it made it even worse that he beat his old school in his first year on the job.

When Spurrier and the Gamecocks made their first trip to The Swamp together in 2006, a game with national champio