Lane Kiffin walked back into Oxford as the main character, but Ole Miss and Pete Golding stole his spotlight

OXFORD, Miss. — Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding walked out of his press conference to a standing ovation from the donors who had filed into the room after the Rebels had spoiled Lane Kiffin's return to Oxford.

You can call it karma.

You can call it revenge for everything that transpired over the past ten months.

But, for those roaming the Ole Miss campus following the cinematic win over LSU , it was more of a sign that this football program is going to be just fine without Lane Kiffin.

A lot was made of the former coach returning this weekend to the place that truly made him.

There were signs placed all throughout the "Grove" that showed the disdain the people of Mississippi had for Lane Kiffin.

You didn’t have to look very far. 'HE'S DUST': OLE MISS STUDENTS RIP LANE KIFFIN AS LSU COACH PREPARES FOR HATRED IN OXFORD But, the whole thing felt more like it was made for television from the start.

Fences guarded the LSU entrance like something you'd see out of a movie involving a prison.

As Kiffin stepped off the bus on Saturday evening, you could feel a quick breeze in the air.

The guy who had spent so much time trying to defend his reasonings for leaving Ole Miss before they started their CFP run had returned to coach an opposing team.

But, not just any team.

This was hated Rebels' rival, LSU.

All of hoopla surrounding this return to Oxford, and maybe we should have been focusing on the guy currently in charge of running the 'Sip.' As Pete Golding stood at the podium after securing the second-biggest win of his short tenure as head coach (Sugar Bowl), super agent Jimmy Sexton stood off to the side.

Sitting off to the right, holding one of the game balls was Ole Miss collective CEO Walker Jones, who could not help but to drop his head every now and then, almost as if it was a sigh of relief that this was over.