{"id":49159,"date":"2025-11-16T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49159\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:47:08","slug":"paul-finebaum-on-lane-kiffin-rumors-everything-seems-to-be-pointing-towards-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49159\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Finebaum on Lane Kiffin rumors: ‘Everything seems to be pointing towards Florida’"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the field in Oxford, Ole Miss<\/a> needed to avoid a close call against Florida<\/a>. Off the field, all of the discussion was about Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin<\/a> and if he could be on the move to Gainesville in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

Kiffin has found himself as the most desired coach in the country right now, and rumors are swirling around him. Those rumors became pervasive, and now Paul Finebaum seems to think they\u2019re all pointing toward Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I mean, Ole Miss has not played at the highest level lately,\u201d Paul Finebaum said<\/a> on The Matt Barrie Show. \u201cBut they\u2019re getting by. I don\u2019t understand Florida. Let\u2019s not waste a lot of time on them. One week they take off. The next week they come back and look like a team that\u2019s capable of making a run. Lane Kiffin is the story right now. As the week unfolded last week, the Kiffin rumors started going crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lane Kiffin has been at Ole Miss since 2020, going 54-19 during that time. Despite not winning the SEC or going to the College Football Playoff<\/a> during that time, he does have four seasons with double-digit wins. He\u2019s also been involved in coaching rumors before, notably including the Auburn<\/a> job before Hugh Freeze<\/a> was hired. Now, schools like Florida and LSU<\/a> have been rumored in connection with Kiffin. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not here to discuss rumors, but you could not avoid it, and everybody seems to know something. He is going to have a difficult time these next couple of weeks dealing with it,\u201d Finebaum said. \u201cBecause everything seems to be pointing toward Florida. It appears the governor did a good job of taking Lane Kiffin out of the LSU situation. Now, how does he deal with it?\u201d <\/p>\n

An added element confusing this coaching search is now the College Football Playoff. Ole Miss sits at 10-1 and, even with an Egg Bowl loss, seems like a Playoff team. Seeing a coach leave a team headed for the CFP instead of staying to coach them would be a massive move and one that could throw the postseason itself into chaos.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked somebody the other day in the circle of people that actually do know. What about the Playoff? I heard some crazy stuff about the Playoff and as important as it is to get to the Playoff, jobs are more important right now. So, I\u2019m not saying anything is going to happen or could happen,\u201d Finebaum said. \u201cBut I think we might be in for the wackiest postseason we have ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lane Kiffin reacts to coaching rumors after win over Florida<\/p>\n

Lane Kiffin has certainly heard the coaching rumors. However, for the time being, he doesn\u2019t want to talk about them publicly. <\/p>\n

\u201cI love what we\u2019re doing here,\u201d Kiffin\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cToday was awesome. To even talk about it right now would be so disrespectful to our players and what they did today. We\u2019ve got a lot of things going on right now and we\u2019re doing really well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the field in Oxford, Ole Miss needed to avoid a close call against Florida. Off the field,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,10891,10866],"class_list":{"0":"post-49159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-lane-kiffin-94-jefferson","12":"tag-paul-finebaum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}