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WATCH: Lane Kiffin on Ole Miss' trajectory, roster at SEC Media Days

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Jul 14, 2025; Atlanta, GA, USA; Ole Miss Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin speaks to the media during SEC Media Day at Omni Atlanta Hotel. Mandatory Credit: Jordan Godfree-Imagn Images

Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin spoke to the media on Monday at SEC Media Days, talking about his roster, the College Football Playoff and more with reporters. Catch the video below from the main media room in Atlanta.

Kiffin doesn’t agree with the current system in place, but once again, he’s looking to win 10 games and keep the Rebels hot.

“I just think that we basically restart each of these last few years because the turnover is so much in college football, which I wish it wasn’t that way and it shouldn’t be,” Kiffin said. “You should be able to build within your program a lot of returning players. It’s just the way the system is now; hopefully that gets fixed.

“I don’t think that’s really good for anybody. Not good for the kids to switch schools every year. Just makes us restart and not expect that they know anything because they’re coming from all these different places.”

Kiffin’s three 10-win seasons in the past four years has people thinking Ole Miss can make a move again in 2025, thanks in part to the culture his staff has instilled in Oxford.

“I think we’ve had really good players over that time; really good schematical coaches that have helped that. I think those usually are the key factors there of playing really well. This last season we led the SEC in scoring offense and defense. That’s really unique to do,” Kiffin said. “I think that to me shows how good that team was. We played 13 games; won ten of them double digits. Not one of those games was really close.

“And then we went 0-3 in one-score games. That does to me show how far we’ve come as a program to be able to have games like the Georgia game or going to South Carolina and have a game like that.”

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