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
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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