Lane Kiffin won't let Ole Miss beef die, fires off new comments

Not a day has gone by throughout the college football offseason that we haven’t heard Lane Kiffin’s name in the media. From his Vanity Fair comments about Ole Miss and Oxford to now making comments about Pete Golding and last year’s college football playoff outcome.

In an interview with USA TODAY, Lane Kiffin went on the record stating that if Ole Miss would’ve allowed him to coach throughout the college football playoffs, the Rebels would not have lost to Miami in the semifinals.

“If anyone wants to argue that theory, that if everything is kept intact, we’re not in the national championship, what are you going to argue?”

Sparking these comments was his thinking that if he was on the sideline with Pete Golding, the now head coach but former defensive coordinator, up in the booth, that they would have beaten Miami in the semifinals.

“He knows he calls it way better up (in the booth), especially when you've been up there all year, you know?”

“(If) Pete Golding is in the press box calling the defense, that team is in the national championship. I don’t know what happens against Indiana, because the quarterback (Fernando Mendoza) is so good. We might win it, but we’re definitely in it. We ain’t losing to Miami.”

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Kiffin later finished off his interview with the mentality of ‘everything turned out for the better.’ He noted that he moved to a bigger program, Pete Golding got promoted, and Trinidad Chambliss getting a major NIL deal along with an extra year of eligibility.

Kiffin and LSU will take on Ole Miss in Oxford in Week 3 of the season on ABC in the 7:30 p.m. primetime slot.

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