Lane Kiffin knows that he’s the villain of college football, he tells @YahooSports. He hopes to win enough to become the hero. “I think of Coach Saban. He became the hero again because he won, but he was a villain.”

Whether you believe what he says or not, Kiffin captures everybody's attention. Now devoid of social media, he says he's more locked in on the job. And if he wins it all at LSU ... well, it doesn't matter how ugly it got at the end of last season.