{"id":301214,"date":"2025-11-19T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/301214\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:13:07","slug":"lane-kiffin-uses-brian-kelly-as-proof-that-three-losses-gets-you-fired-in-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/301214\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin uses Brian Kelly as proof that three losses gets you fired in college football"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of people around college football<\/a> are wondering if Lane Kiffin<\/a> has his mind where it needs to be at Ole Miss<\/a>. He says he does, though, because, if he doesn\u2019t, he\u2019d say he would be out a job either way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kiffin<\/a> shared his newfound belief as far as coaches go during an appearance on \u2018The Pat McAfee Show\u2019<\/a> on Tuesday<\/a>. He said a loss or two will drop a coach\u2019s team out of the rankings, but that a third loss is the sort of thing now that\u2019ll get one fired. That, for example, is what happened last month to Brian Kelly<\/a> at LSU<\/a>, which Kiffin<\/a>, ironically enough<\/a>, referenced.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that (they\u2019re going to try to fire me if we lose the Egg Bowl). I know that,\u201d said Kiffin. \u201cI\u2019ve said, when they\u2019re like, all this stuff, and they\u2019re like, are you focused on other places? I say, no, I\u2019m focused on winning, because now what I\u2019ve learned in college football \u2013 we have our little group chat with like Sark<\/a> and Kirby<\/a> and a couple guys, and we came up with this. You lose one, you\u2019re out of the Top-10. You lose two, you\u2019re out of the Top-25. You lose three, you get fired. So, you know, we\u2019re focused on our job of trying to get to 1-0 every week, because that\u2019s the profession that we\u2019re in now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I mean, we just saw that with Brian Kelly,\u201d Kiffin referenced later on. \u201cThat\u2019s exactly the scenario that just happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on those criteria, Kiffin wasn\u2019t wrong whatsoever about how that played out for Kelly. LSU lost, again, ironically enough, to Ole Miss in Oxford on September 27th to fall from No. 4 to No. 11, lost to Vanderbilt<\/a> in Nashville on October 18th to fall from No. 10 to No. 20, and finally to Texas A&M<\/a> on October 25th to fall from No. 20 to unranked in the AP Poll. It also, being that third loss this season for the Tigers, was the final game for Kelly in Baton Rouge, as he was fired the next day on Sunday.<\/p>\n

That in mind, Kiffin doesn\u2019t want to risk even a second loss, let alone a third. That\u2019s especially so with Ole Miss, ahead of the selection committee\u2019s latest rankings<\/a> for the College Football Playoff<\/a> set to be released tonight, still playing for seeding in the CFP.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s too many variables. Because, everybody\u2019s like, well, you\u2019ve got to get to the top-twelve teams, Well, now we\u2019re finding out, depending on how other things go, you really got to get to the top-ten teams to make sure you make the playoffs, because two of the teams might not even be in the top-twelve. They could be twenty or twenty-five or something with the current, flawed system,\u201d said Kiffin. \u201cSo, like you said, everybody\u2019s like, well, man, you better be in the top-twelve. No, you better make sure you\u2019re in the top-ten, or you might get left out.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I ain\u2019t worried about other stuff. <\/a>I\u2019m worried about making sure we win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot of people around college football are wondering if Lane Kiffin has his mind where it needs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[130266,399,96466,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-301214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-brian-kelly-79-st-johns-preparatory-school","tag-football","tag-lane-kiffin-94-jefferson","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}