BATON ROUGE — Newly hired LSU football coach Lane Kiffin thanked school administrators Monday for trusting him with “one of the elite programs in all of sports,” and kicked off his Tigers tenure with a pledge to return the team to a championship level.

Kiffin, 50, left Ole Miss on Sunday with the Rebels poised to enter the College Football Playoff in a matter of weeks. He said his mentors told him he would forever regret not taking the LSU job.

“I can sum it by saying this: This place is different,” Kiffin said. “And having watched this place for a long time, having been on the other sideline in this stadium, this place is different, and that’s why we’re here.”

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LSU has recent national championships in football, women’s basketball, women’s gymnastics and baseball

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