This the "Topp Rope," a biweekly SEC football column from the USA TODAY Network's Blake Toppmeyer.
ESPN’s Michael Wilbon is calling Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin “a clown” and “an embarrassment.”
Kiffin is responding to Wilbon's blistering criticism.
Alabama coach Nick Saban is recalling how he was foolish not to follow his late aunt’s football advice before the LSU team that Saban coached in 2001 lost to Ole Miss.
Saban vs. Kiffin weekend in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is nearly upon us, and it is everything college football fans had hoped for.