The 2025 LSU football season quickly went from promise to disaster. Brian Kelly was fired mid-season , and the focus of LSU's coaching search quickly turned to Lane Kiffin . Ole Miss was in the middle of a College Football Playoff run, with the Rebels only losing one game. Now, the Rebels don't have their coach for the run, and it speaks to how Kiffin views each job's chances of winning a national title.

ESPN college football analyst Paul Finebaum said on “The Matt Barrie Show” that he thinks that Kiffin would have stayed with Ole Miss if he believed that the Rebels had a chance to win the national title . Finebaum said he would have waited because of that. At the end of the day, LSU is the better job, and Kiffin took the Tigers' job because of that. “I think Lane Kiffin had to

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