Lane Kiffin knows the power of prayer.
A day after telling the college football world he had not made a decision on his future — “I have a lot of praying to do,” he said Friday — the Ole Miss coach found his answer.
It took all of Saturday and even bled into Sunday, but after Friday’s Egg Bowl win against Mississippi State and a meeting with the Ole Miss athletic director and chancellor Saturday that reportedly lasted more than three hours, Kiffin decided to bolt for LSU in a stunning decision that’ll have ripple effects throughout the sport.
pic.twitter.com/N2DWuu1NaM — Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) November 30, 2025
“After a lot of prayer and time spent with family, I made the difficult decision to accept the head coaching position at LSU,” he posted to X on Sunday. “I was hoping to

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