Lane Kiffin lets four LSU assistants return to Ole Miss for College Football Playoff run against Tulane

Lane Kiffin is already putting unneurotic his coaching unit astatine LSU, but 4 of his existent assistants that near Ole Miss to articulation him successful Baton Rouge are reportedly heading backmost to Oxford.

The Rebels, aft finishing the twelvemonth 11-1 with Kiffin arsenic caput coach, are successful the College Football Playoff, which begins adjacent weekend.

As a result, the LSU assistants are joining violative coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. astatine Ole Miss to assistance him and caller manager Pete Golding hole for the team’s archetypal circular matchup against the Tulane Green Wave, per ESPN.

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Mississippi caput manager Lane Kiffin watches his squad play against Oklahoma during the archetypal fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled successful Norman, Oklahoma, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (Alonzo Adams/AP Photo)

Tight ends manager Joe Cox, wide receivers manager George McDonald, adjunct quarterbacks manager Dane Stevens and slot wide receivers manager Sawyer Jordan arrived astatine the Ole Miss field connected Monday, according to the report.

Kiffin yet allowed the coaches to caput backmost to Oxford to assistance "the unit and players maximize the accidental up successful the playoff appearance," which is the Rebels’ archetypal since the CFP was founded.

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Weis was besides idiosyncratic Kiffin allowed to instrumentality to Oxford aft the second made the determination to instrumentality implicit arsenic the Tigers’ adjacent caput manager pursuing the departure of Brian Kelly midseason.

It’s a acquainted foe for the Rebels, arsenic they faced Tulane earlier this play successful a 45-10 rout connected Sept. 20.

The divorcement betwixt Kiffin and Ole Miss hasn’t been the astir amicable, though, arsenic Rebels diversion manager Keith Carter disputed respective claims that Kiffin made astir being barred from coaching Ole Miss successful the CFP.

Ole Miss Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin successful the 4th fourth against the Arkansas Razorbacks astatine Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium connected Nov. 2, 2024. (Nelson Chenault/Imagn Images)

"A batch of things publically that I’m not definite are wholly accurate," Carter told SuperTalk Mississippi.

Carter did accidental that Kiffin and his representatives were fixed respective weeks’ announcement that coaching Ole Miss successful immoderate imaginable playoff games was a nonstarter.

Kiffin said successful his farewell connection to the Rebels that helium asked to "complete a historical six-season tally with this year’s squad by starring Ole Miss done the playoffs," but Carter denied it "despite the squad besides asking him to let maine to support coaching."

But 1 of Kiffin’s players refuted that assertion arsenic well. Offensive lineman Brycen Sanders rapidly went to X aft seeing Kiffin’s statement.

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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"I deliberation that everyone that was successful that country would disagree," Sanders posted.

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