ATLANTA — Lane Kiffin canceled a scheduled appearance here Saturday on ESPN’s “College GameDay” show before the SEC Championship Game. LSU’s new coach said on social media he had to stay in Baton Rouge where he was “finishing some things out with players and a coach.”

Those things turned out to be defensive coordinator Blake Baker, who decided to stay at LSU instead of becoming Tulane’s head coach, and University High’s Lamar Brown, the nation’s No. 1-rated prospect.

Still, Kiffin’s absence didn’t stop the show’s cast from talking about him at length.

“There were several questions we wanted to ask,” “College GameDay” host Rece Davis said. “Those will have to wait for another day.”

Davis brought up the fact that Kiffin and Nick Saban, the former LSU and Alabama coach now part of the “C

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