TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Someone facing a relative in college football isn’t very common, like University of Alabama junior safety Landon Collins seeing his brother on the Florida sideline two weeks ago.

However, brother vs. brother in the coaching ranks can be rare, and Saturday afternoon will be one of those times when Alabama visits Ole Miss (3:30 p.m. ET, CBS).

While Lane Kiffin is the Crimson Tide’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach his younger brother, Chris, is in his third season as defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator for the Rebels.

They’ve never squared off against one another as coaches, and none of the Alabama players seemed to know about it until Monday.

“Nothing about that actually at all,” junior center Ryan Kelly said.

“He’s gonna be pumping them up all week telling them we gotta stop my brother’s offense,” senior fullback Jalston Fowler said.

Chris and Lane are the only two sons of NFL coaching legend Monte Kiffin, the assistant head coach for defense of the Dallas Cowboys who previously served as Lane’s defensive coordinator at both Southern California and Tennessee. He previously served 26 years as an NFL assistant coach, including 13 as defensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with whom he devised the Tampa-2 scheme and won Super Bowl XXXVII.

Chris Kiffin was a defensive tackle at Colorado State from 2000-05 and served as a student assistant at Idaho before being named a quality control intern with Tampa Bay in 2006.

He spent the 2007 season as a graduate assistant for Ed Orgeron at Ole Miss, was hired to be in charge of offensive quality control at Nebraska in 2008, and years later joined Lane’s staff at USC as an administrative assistant. Hugh Freeze subsequently hired him as defensive line coach at Arkansas State in 2010, and he followed the coach to Ole Miss.

Chris Kiffin was named the 2013 National Recruiter of the Year by Scout.com after helping the Rebels land a top-five signing class that was ranked as high as No. 2 by 247Sports.

The brothers are six years and eight months apart, with Lane now 39. The only time they were on opposing sidelines was 2004, when Lane Kiffin was the wide receivers coach for No. 1 USC, which hosted Colorado State in Week 2 of the season. The Trojans won 49-0.

“I don’t know that there’s an advantage,” Freeze said during his press conference Monday. “I actually spent a week with Lane back when I was here with Ed, and I don’t know how much they sit around and talk offensive football. (Chris) probably talks more with Monte about the defensive side, but we’ll certainly ask him. I’m sure in the defensive room they’ll talk about anything that will give us an advantage.

“I know a lot of their family is coming, and I’m sure Chris is getting them tickets so I assume they are cheering for him. Anytime you compete with people you love, you want to win. I wanted to beat my brother growing up and my cousins growing up in anything we did, but that certainly didn’t mean that after it’s over you fight with them in life. I’m sure it’ll be the same Saturday. Chris will want to win. Lane will want to win. At end of the day, it’s not about Lane or Chris or Nick (Saban) or Hugh. It’s about these kids who will have to win the battles.”