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Ole Miss Football Staffer Caught Impersonating Penn State Fans To Fire Up Team Prior To Peach Bowl

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Lane Kiffin

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Ole Miss Head Coach Lane Kiffin is one of the most clever and entertaining coaches in all of college football, and helps make the sports as fun as it is. But, his program has been caught red-handed manufacturing bulletin board material with a burner Twitter account that was impersonating a Penn State fan.

It’s a bowl game, and the stakes are pretty low, all things considered. But, Ole Miss really went out of their way to try to fire their team up.

Earlier Friday, just a day before the Penn State-Ole Miss matchup in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Saturday, Lane Kiffin retweeted some tweets from a Penn State account that were disrespectful towards Ole Miss.

https://twitter.com/WEARE_PENNST23/status/1740505222664036835

https://twitter.com/WEARE_PENNST23/status/1740875547755045101

https://twitter.com/WEARE_PENNST23/status/1740857743848669189

https://twitter.com/WEARE_PENNST23/status/1740862148539244788

Pretty normal tweets before a big game, right? It stands to reason this could be true, as players will mingle at the team hotel and around the host city prior to bowl games, giving fans the opportunity to interact.

But, internet sleuths quickly smelled something fishy. The account was just a few days old, and the tweets clearly seemed like bait. Now, it seems like we have confirmation that the account was created by an Ole Miss staffer.

If you use the forget password feature on Twitter, you can get a big hint on the email address associated with the account. This seems like a privacy issue on Twitter’s part, but they haven’t fixed it.

And, wouldn’t you know, the email address associated with the account seems to be almost certainly the account of an Ole Miss staffer.

That appears to be the email address of Ole Miss’ offensive assistant Fisher Ray. That’s sloppy work by the Ole Miss football program.

Why they wouldn’t just use a burner email is beyond me. This is a Connor Stalions-level lack of attention to detail.

#10 Penn State and #11 Ole Miss square off at Noon ET on Saturday.