Lane Kiffin leaves Ole Miss for LSU in college football coaching shakeup

The Lane Kiffin play came to an extremity connected Sunday arsenic the Ole Miss Rebels caput shot manager announced helium was leaving the schoolhouse to instrumentality the LSU Tigers’ job.

Kiffin came disconnected a triumph against Mississippi State successful the Egg Bowl rivalry crippled connected Friday afternoon. He said helium had a batch of praying to bash earlier making the decision, which was initially expected to beryllium made connected Saturday. But Kiffin reportedly had meetings with diversion manager Keith Carter and schoolhouse chancellor Glenn Boyce done the night.

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Ole Miss Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin during the crippled against the Oklahoma Sooners astatine Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium connected Oct. 25, 2025. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

He met with the squad successful the day earlier the determination was officially announced, according to aggregate reports. He volition not manager the squad successful the College Football Playoff.

"After a batch of supplication and clip spent with family, I made the hard determination to judge the caput coaching presumption astatine LSU," Kiffin said successful a statement.

"I was hoping to implicit a historical six play tally with this year's squad by starring Ole Miss done the playoffs, capitalizing connected the team's unthinkable occurrence and their committedness to decorativeness strong, and investing everything into a playoff tally with guardrails successful spot to support the programme successful immoderate areas of concern. My petition to bash truthful was denied by Keith Carter contempt the squad besides asking him to let maine to support coaching them truthful they could amended support their precocious level of performance. Unfortunately, that means Friday's Egg Bowl was my past crippled coaching the Rebels.

"While I americium looking guardant to a caller commencement with a unsocial accidental astatine LSU, I volition everlastingly cherish the unthinkable six years I spent astatine Ole Miss and volition beryllium rooting hard for the squad to implicit their ngo and bring a title to Oxford."

Defensive coordinator Pete Golding is reportedly expected to beryllium named the caput manager astatine Ole Miss.

Kiffin has been the hottest coaching people successful assemblage shot with aggregate jobs open. He's been linked to the LSU and Florida jobs. The Tigers parted ways with Brian Kelly, and the Gators divided from Billy Napier successful the mediate of the year. Both openings are astatine schools considered to beryllium the golden modular erstwhile it comes to the sport.

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Mississippi Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin looks connected during lukewarm ups anterior to the crippled  against the Florida Gators astatine Vaught-Hemingway Stadium connected Nov. 15, 2025. (Petre Thomas/Imagn Images)

However, Kiffin has turned the Rebels into a assemblage shot nationalist title contender this year. Ole Miss’ 11 wins this play are the astir successful schoolhouse history, and the Rebels person done truthful doubly nether Kiffin.

Kiffin took implicit an Ole Miss programme that was 4-8 successful Matt Luke’s last season. He’s notched astatine slightest 10 wins astatine Ole Miss successful 4 of the six years he’s been astatine the helm.

Kiffin has already travel nether occurrence successful the past for leaving places connected a whim, specifically taking the USC occupation successful 2010 aft lone 1 play with Tennessee.

Mississippi caput manager Lane Kiffin reacts to a official's telephone during the 2nd fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Mississippi State, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, successful Starkville, Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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With the Rebels apt securing a spot successful the College Football Playoff, it’s hard to fathom that Kiffin volition beryllium leaving the schoolhouse helium helped rebuild into a powerhouse.

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