KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- He's been the topic of discussion all week, and now he's finally back.

Former Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin, who left the program following his lone season at the school in 2009, returned to Neyland Stadium on Saturday for the first time since his departure.

Kiffin returns to face his former school with Alabama, one of Tennessee's chief rivals, where he is in his first season as the team's offensive coordinator.

Kiffin was the last coach to exit the Alabama team bus as it arrived at the stadium roughly two hours before kickoff. He can first been seen at around the 0:35 mark in the video.

Alabama-Tennessee is set to kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2.

(H/T to D.C. Reeves, of Tuscaloosa News/TideSports.com, for the video.)

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