Lane Kiffin Accepts LSU Job

At last we have reached closure: Lane Kiffin is the new head coach of LSU.

The confirmation comes from Kiffin himself, who took to social media to confirm the news.

LSU football’s official account announced the news not long after. Two planes are already en route to Oxford to pick up Kiffin and others. He will not coach Ole Miss in the upcoming College Football Playoff (which was a huge sticking point in this process) and defensive coordinator Pete Golding is reportedly the new head coach for the Rebs.

Kiffin is reportedly agreeing to a seven-year deal with annual salary reported to be worth $13 million a year. It will make him one of the highest paid coaches in the country.

“We are thrilled to welcome Coach Kiffin as the next head coach of the LSU Football program,” Verge Ausberry said in a statement. “We shared when we began this search that LSU would secure the best coach in the country and Lane Kiffin is just that. Lane is a proven winner who has thrived in an era of college athletics that requires coaches to adapt innovate. His passion, creativity, and authenticity make him the ideal leader to guide LSU into the future and consistently position us among the sport’s elite”

“Proven winner” certainly fits the bill for Kiffin at Ole Miss. In six years under Kiffin, Ole Miss went 55-19 including four 10-win seasons and its first ever 11-win regular season this year. The 55 wins for Ole Miss are the most over a six-year span since 1957-1962, and only Georgia and Alabama have won more games over that same timeframe.

You want offense, Lane Kiffin will give you offense. This year the Rebels are leading the SEC with 498 yards a game, and are averaging 37 points per game. Ole Miss led the SEC in total offense four different times under Kiffin, and they averaged 33 points or more in all six seasons.

Even better news for LSU is that Blake Baker is being viewed as a “strong possibility to be retained” by Kiffin, which I and am sure many of you would be perfectly happy with. Keep the defensive staff in tact, let Lane pick his offensive staff, and see if LSU can’t have themselves a balanced, complementary team heading into 2026.