Lane Kiffin to receive Ole Miss playoff bonuses from LSU despite leaving Rebels before postseason: report

Lane Kiffin is the adjacent caput manager of the LSU Tigers, but helium won’t beryllium finishing his 2025 play with the Ole Miss Rebels contempt helping pb them to a apt College Football Playoff spot.

But arsenic portion of his caller woody with the Tigers, it appears Kiffin volition beryllium getting paid for the Rebels' occurrence if they were to marque a tally to a nationalist rubric appearance.

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. If the Rebels are successful the last bracket selected by the CFP committee, Kiffin was going to get $150,000 for it from Ole Miss conscionable for playing a crippled successful the archetypal round.

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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)

Even better, Kiffin was acceptable to marque $250,000 if the squad reached the quarterfinals, $500,000 for a semifinal appearance, and a whopping $750,000 if Ole Miss reached the nationalist championship.

In the disconnected accidental Ole Miss wins that rubric game, Kiffin was acceptable to person $1 million.

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While Kiffin made his determination to caput to Baton Rouge adjacent season, helium did privation to decorativeness retired the play arsenic the caput manager of the Rebels, nary substance however acold they made it successful the playoffs. However, helium pointed the digit astatine Ole Miss diversion manager Keith Carter, who helium said denied the petition to stay astatine Ole Miss until their play was astatine an end.

"We went done a batch past nighttime with 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."

Ole Miss Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin throws a shot earlier the crippled against the Oklahoma Sooners astatine Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium connected Oct. 25, 2025. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

Kiffin said that helium talked with assemblage shot coaching legends, Pete Carroll and Nick Saban, earlier making his determination to caput to Baton Rouge.

"My bosom was here. But I talked to immoderate mentors — manager Carroll, manager Saban. Especially erstwhile manager Carroll said, ‘Your dada would archer you to go. Take the shot.’

"I ever hated however we gave it 1 twelvemonth astatine Tennessee and left. I hated that feeling of that. I deliberation we gave a batch to this programme and to this metropolis and immoderate of those historical wins successful this stadium, champion regular play successful the past of the school. So, I'm arrogant of that part. But it conscionable became time. I talked to God, and helium told maine it's clip to instrumentality a caller step. It's a caller chapter."

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

Ole Miss Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin during the crippled against the Oklahoma Sooners astatine Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium connected Oct. 25, 2025. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

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Details of Kiffin’s caller woody with LSU started to surface, and he’s 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.

However, the study besides mentions that, if Kiffin were to pb the Tigers to a nationalist title, an escalator successful his declaration would marque him the highest-paid coach.

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