Lane Kiffin departs Ole Miss
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After leading the Rebels to an Egg Bowl win over Mississippi State on Friday, the 50-year-old met with Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter and chancellor Glenn Boyce for over three hours on Saturday. Kiffin then announced his decision to leave Oxford in a team meeting on Sunday.
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin is leaving the Rebels for LSU, in a stunning and unprecedented case of a college football coach taking another job while his current team is in contention to win a national title.
Lane Kiffin is officially saying goodbye to Oxford. The college football coach made his long-awaited decision, announcing that he is abandoning Ole Miss ahead of the College Football Playoff to accept the LSU Tigers head coaching gig.
The LSU Tigers have officially hired Lane Kiffin as the program's next head coach after the Ole Miss Rebels shot-caller made the move to depart Oxford on Sunday
Lane Kiffin said on the SEC Network that Mississippi State fans broke into Ole Miss' locker room and stole Trinidad Chambliss' jersey.