Coach who left Ole Miss to join Lane Kiffin at LSU will finish season with Rebels

Lane Kiffin was not capable to decorativeness his play with Ole Miss, but idiosyncratic who near Oxford for Baton Rogue alongside him will.

New LSU discourtesy coordinator Charlie Weis Jr., who flew to Louisiana with Kiffin connected Sunday, volition clasp his station astatine Ole Miss done the College Football Playoff.

Ole Miss announced their coaching unit connected Tuesday, and Kiffin provided a statement, stating that the CFP rankings played a relation successful him allowing Weis to enactment with the Rebels for a fewer much weeks.

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Mississippi Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin (right) talks with violative coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. during warm-ups anterior to a crippled against the Georgia State Panthers astatine Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. (Petre Thomas/Imagn Images)

"With the playoff committee releasing updated rankings tonight, I wanted it to beryllium known that aft conversations with LSU, we are allowing Charlie to instrumentality to Ole Miss to manager the squad during the playoffs," Kiffin said via On3. "I've already made the committee alert of this and I’m hopeful this determination volition let Ole Miss to person the highest ranking imaginable due to the fact that these large players are precise deserving of that. I’m excited that Charlie volition beryllium backmost to assistance manager the top squad successful the past of Ole Miss."

Weis and Kiffin's archetypal stint unneurotic came astatine Alabama successful 2015 erstwhile Kiffin was the violative coordinator and Weis was an assistant. They were unneurotic astatine Florida Atlantic for a play earlier reuniting successful Oxford successful 2022.

While Kiffin was barred from finishing his play with Ole Miss, and adjacent gathering with players Sunday up of his last decision, LSU has reportedly agreed to wage Kiffin the aforesaid bonuses helium was acceptable to person with Ole Miss if they were to marque the CFP, according to Nola.com.

LSU shot caput manager Lane Kiffin speaks astatine South Stadium Club astatine Tiger Stadium connected Dec. 1, 2025, successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana.   (Matthew Hinton/Imagn Images)

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"We went done a batch past nighttime with [Ole Miss diversion director] Keith Carter trying to fig retired a mode to marque this playoff tally enactment and beryllium capable to manager the team. And astatine the extremity of the day, that’s his determination and I wholly respect that. I recognize that decision," Kiffin told ESPN astir Carter’s prime not to fto him decorativeness the play arsenic the Rebels’ coach. "I conscionable wholly privation the squad the champion of luck, privation that I was coaching….I conscionable anticipation they play truly good and spell triumph the nationalist championship."

Kiffin is reportedly acceptable to marque $13 cardinal per play with the Tigers, making him the second-highest-paid assemblage manager successful the state down Georgia’s Kirby Smart.

Head shot manager Lane Kiffin and Athletic Director Verge Ausberry of the LSU Tigers get astatine the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport connected Nov. 30, 2025 successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  (Gus Stark/University Images via Getty Images)

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Ole Miss antiaircraft coordinator Pete Golding was named caput manager to regenerate Kiffin successful Oxford.

Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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