Ole Miss Lane Kiffin heads to LSU, can he win championships with Tigers?
Ole Miss football coach, Lane Kiffin, is moving to a new SEC school. Paul Myerberg explains he can win with LSU, but will he win championships?
After one of the most dramatic exits in recent college football memory saw Lane Kiffin leaving Mississippi for LSU — one of the most dramatic athletic departments in the country — both sides will look to settle the noise with an introductory press conference Dec. 1 at 3:30 p.m. CT.
As the Rebels prepare for the College Football Playoff under new head coach Pete Golding, Kiffin will look to assure Tigers fans he will be able to do in Baton Rouge what he has done in Oxford.
Quieting the outside noise won’t be easy. The Kiffin-Mississippi divorce was messy and held the college football world’s attention for weeks. The dust had hardly settled from LSU’s firing of Brian Kelly before the rumor mill around Kiffin started to churn again, and the Rebels’ 2025 season suddenly became a backdrop for the Kiffin sideshow. It culminated Sunday, Nov. 30, when Kiffin officially departed Mississippi to take the LSU coaching job, with his reported ultimatums and threats to finish out the season going unheeded.
Now, Kiffin enters Baton Rouge as one of the most reviled figures by one fanbase since… Lane Kiffin. When he left the Tennessee Vols to take the job at USC in 2010. The college football world has changed a lot since then, of course, and Kiffin will enter a recruiting hotbed in Louisiana. With all of that in mind, he’s hoping this stint goes better than it did with the Trojans, where he was fired in 2013 before rehabbing his coaching reputation as a coordinator at Alabama and a head coach at FAU and Mississippi.
USA TODAY Sports is following Kiffin’s press conference, and will provide updates on what Kiffin has to say about the next chapter in his coaching career.
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