Saturday night marked his return to Oxford, Mississippi, as his LSU Tigers battled his former Ole Miss Rebels. LSU entered as narrow 3-point favorites in a hostile road environment. It quickly became clear that bookies, analysts, and just about every fan in college football got it wrong.
The Rebels came out hot and answered every punch the Tigers threw back at them en route to a 32-24 victory. On Monday's episode of "First Take," Paul Finebaum, never one to mince words, ripped Kiffin apart after the devastating loss. "Lane Kiffin is still the same con man he was before he walked into that stadium, and you just saw it right there in living HD," Finebaum said.
"I mean, there's nothing believable about what he said. He had built everything about going into that stadium and showing Ole Miss that he made the right decision, and ultimately he may have made the right decision, but he seemed out of sorts the entire game. He seemed uptight, really more so than any time I have seen him ... he almost seemed like a zombie, and his team seemed to be representative of that until finally, late in the game, they came alive and nearly pulled it off." More news: Big Ten Team Showing Interest in Brian Kelly After Disappointing 0-2 Start LSU's loss to Ole Miss wasn't just bad because Kiffin lost to the same program he'd effectively told he didn't believe in.
It's even worse considering LSU's odds of making the College Football Playoff have plummeted since. Next up, the Tigers host No. 23 Texas A&M and will have to face other top-ranked teams later in the season, including No. 24 Mississippi State, No. 14 Tennessee, No. 8 Alabama, and No. 1 Texas. That doesn't even include other SEC tests against Kentucky, who just upset Texas A&M, and Auburn, who narrowly lost to undefeated Florida.
More news: Deion Sanders Fuming Over Colorado Player’s Behavior After Loss to Northwestern More news: Pete Golding Gets Brutally Honest on His Relationship With Lane Kiffin LSU is one of the hardest jobs in college football. Championships are the baseline, and if the Tigers can't even make the CFP in Kiffin's first year, after the university invested $91 million in him and over $40 million in the roster he built, his days in Baton Rouge could be numbered.
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