Lane Kiffin Decision: College football personalities predict future of Ole Miss head coach

In the next few days, the Lane Kiffin Sweepstakes will finally be over. No one knows what the final Kiffhanger will be. Will Kiffin sit at a table and choose between Ole Miss, LSU or Florida visors? Or maybe Kiffin will shoot off fireworks into the Oxford sky, spelling out a team’s name?

Or maybe he’ll just Tweet his destination. Only Kiffin knows.

However, I asked more than 80 of the most knowledgeable and influential individuals in the college football media landscape for their predictions on where Lane Kiffin will coach in 2026. Literally the brightest college football minds on the planet from A (Andrea Adelson) to Z (Adam Zucker).

I also sought predictions from the governors of Mississippi (Tate Reeves), Florida (Ron DeSantis) and Louisiana (Jeff Landry). Reeves predicted Kiffin would remain at Ole Miss. DeSantis and Landry apparently were too busy governing to respond.

Here’s the voting breakdown: LSU (58), Ole Miss (17), Florida (5), Tennessee Titans (2), Alabama (1) and “no clue” (1).

Andrea Adelson, ESPN                          LSU
Brooks Austin, Film Guy Network LSU
Tony Barnhart, Mr. College Football    Ole Miss
Matt Barrie, ESPN                                  Florida
Bill Bender, Sporting News                   LSU
Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel            Florida
Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle             Ole Miss
Rico Bosco, Barstool                             Ole Miss
Tim Brando, FOX Sports                       Ole Miss
Stormy Buonantony, ESPN                   Ole Miss
Peter Burns, SEC Network                   LSU

Chris Childers, Sirius XM                      LSU
Cole Cubelic, SEC Network                  LSU
Chuck Culpepper, Washington Post   Ole Miss
Gary Danielson, CBS Sports                Ole Miss
Ross Dellenger, Yahoo Sports             LSU
Shea Dixon, The Bengal Tiger On3     LSU
Scott Dochterman, The Athletic          LSU
Dennis Dodd, formerly CBS Sports     LSU
Chris Doering, SEC Network                Florida
Dusty Dvoracek, ESPN                          LSU

Bud Elliott, CBS Sports                          LSU
Chris Fallica, FOX Sports                       LSU
Bruce Feldman, The Athletic                 LSU
Paul Finebaum, ESPN                             LSU
Bryan Fischer, Sports Illustrated           LSU
Pete Fiutak, College Football News      LSU
Pat Forde, Sports Illustrated                  LSU
Tom Fornelli, CBS Sports                       Tennessee Titans
Ted Gangi, College Press Box               Ole Miss
Steven Godfrey, Phantom Island          Alabama

Steve Greenberg, Chicago Sun Times    LSU
David Hale, ESPN                                   LSU
Matt Hayes, USA Today                          LSU
Kirk Herbstreit, ESPN                             LSU
Desmond Howard, ESPN                       LSU
Shehan Jeyarajah, CBS Sports                LSU
Gus Johnson, FOX Sports                      LSU
Richard Johnson, CBS Sports                 Ole Miss
Danny Kanell, CBS Sports                       Ole Miss
Dan “Big Cat” Katz, Barstool                  LSU

Joel Klatt, FOX Sports                            LSU
Sam Khan, The Athletic                          LSU
Joey Knish, Hit the Books                      LSU
Matt Leinart, FOX Sports                       LSU
Chris Low, On3                                       Ole Miss
Tom Luginbill, ESPN                              LSU
Stewart Mandel, The Athletic                LSU
Greg McElroy, ESPN                              LSU
Brett McMurphy, On3                            Ole Miss
Tim Murray, VSIN                                  LSU

Pete Nakos, On3                                    LSU
Rick Neuheisel, CBS Sports                 LSU
Kevin Negandhi, ESPN                          LSU
Keith Niebuhr, Gators Online On3       Florida
Dari Nowkhah, ESPN                             LSU
Josh Pate, Josh Pate’s CFB Show       LSU
Chip Patterson, CBS Sports                 LSU
J.D. Pickell, On3                                     LSU
Dave Portnoy, Barstool                         Ole Miss
Brad Powers, Hit the Books                 LSU

Brady Quinn, FOX Sports                       LSU
Scott Rabalais, Baton Rouge Advocate    LSU
Tate Reeves, Governor of Mississippi      Ole Miss
Steve Richardson, FWAA                        LSU
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN                          LSU
Dave Ross, VSIN                                    LSU
Ralph Russo, The Athletic                       LSU
Andy Staples, On3                                   LSU           
Phil Steele, Phil Steele Magazine              LSU
Paul Stone, professional handicapper      LSU

Rob Stone, FOX Sports                           Ole Miss
Jenny Taft, FOX Sports                           LSU
Clay Travis, Outkick                                LSU
Jake Trotter, ESPN                                  LSU
Scott Van Pelt, ESPN                              “No clue”
Brandon Walker, Barstool                        Ole Miss
Trey Wallace, Outkick                              Tennessee Titans
Andre Ware, ESPN                                 LSU
Ari Wasserman, On3                               LSU
Dan Wetzel, ESPN                                  LSU

Jon Wilner, Bay Area News Group          Ole Miss
Collin Wilson, predictive analyst             LSU
Matt Youmans, VSIN                              Florida
Adam Zucker, CBS Sports                       LSU