Lane Kiffin has long credited Nick Saban for helping to reenergize Kiffin's head-coaching career, but that doesn't mean Kiffin is opposed to poking fun at his old boss. Kiffin jokingly went into full Saban mode at his news conference Monday when asked if he is a candidate for the Auburn head-coaching job and whether he has talked to anybody at Auburn. Kiffin said coaching rumors are a "product of your players' playing well" and said there have been no conversations with Auburn. Then he quipped, "I wanted to say what I learned from my mentor: That if you guys are going to keep asking this, I'm going to have to tell you, 'I'm not going to be the head coach at Alabama,' OK? So stop asking me.'"   Kiffin sported his best Saban hand gesture in answering the question, then grinned and said, "I wasn't supposed to say that, but I just had to." Kiffin, who worked under Saban as Alabama's offensive coordinator from 2014 to '16, was referring to Saban's quote from...