{"id":56804,"date":"2025-11-22T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/56804\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:58:08","slug":"pat-mcafee-sends-clear-message-to-lane-kiffin-amid-florida-lsu-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/56804\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee Sends Clear Message to Lane Kiffin Amid Florida, LSU Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lane Kiffin\u2019s name has become the gravitational center of college football<\/a>\u2019s late\u2011season coaching drama. <\/p>\n

As the Rebels sit 10-1, No. 6 in the AP Top 25, and in line for their first-ever College Football Playoff<\/a> berth, it was revealed on Friday that the choice that could reshape the SEC will be declared after the Egg Bowl on November 29.<\/p>\n

With new reports surfacing, College GameDay spent Saturday weighing Kiffin\u2019s future, punctuated by Pat McAfee\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

“I would like to say, if Lane Kiffin is listening… You’re allowed to be happy and content, brother. You’re allowed to be at a place and have massive success. You’re allowed to build a place from scratch. You’re allowed to become a ‘G.O.A.T.’ at a place,” McAfee said. <\/p>\n

“But I would like to stick up for Ole Miss. That place is awesome. They got a lot of great players who can play another year. Lane’s done a fantastic job.”<\/p>\n

Kirk Herbstreit then says, “Would you stay or would you go? I would stay.”<\/p>\n

“If I’m Lane? He’s got 6 a.m. yoga. Non-negotiable. He goes to every single day. Then I think he plays pickleball. His boy just won by 10 last night in the playoffs. I think in Oxford. I mean, he is very content. And after watching his documentary, it’s like you’re allowed to be happy, dude,” McAfee responded.<\/p>\n

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Now in his sixth season as head coach, Kiffin has transformed Ole Miss into a national title contender, and the 2025 Rebels have the program positioned for its most consequential postseason run in years. <\/p>\n

That success is the reason LSU and Florida have both pursued Kiffin aggressively this fall, scheduling private flights and visits and reportedly putting together deals<\/a> worth up to $90 million ($13 million annually).<\/p>\n

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The timeline intensified on Friday when Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter confirmed discussions with Kiffin and set a clear announcement date for the week after the Egg Bowl. <\/p>\n

Kiffin has alternated between short, personal posts on social media and declining to respond to direct questions from reporters, leaving reporters and media figures like McAfee to fill the gaps. <\/p>\n

With a firm deadline now in place, the only things guaranteed are that Kiffin will coach through the Egg Bowl, and an announcement is expected the following day.<\/p>\n

The college football world will be watching closely until then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin\u2019s name has become the gravitational center of college football\u2019s late\u2011season coaching drama. As the Rebels sit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10241,143,28,30,29,10713,9918,35130],"class_list":["post-56804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-college-football","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lane-kiffin","tag-ole-miss","tag-pat-mcafee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56804","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=56804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}