Lane Kiffin will be college football’s main character this year
· Yahoo Sports
It’s been a crazy calendar year for LSU head coach Lane Kiffin.
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Kiffin helped Ole Miss make the College Football Playoff last season before bolting to LSU before the CFP started. He was being heavily pursued by LSU and decided to take the job, but didn’t finish the season with Ole Miss.
He then flipped LSU’s roster ahead of the 2026 season and is now involved with commitments from two professional players, tight end Dae’Quan Wright and defensive lineman Zxavian Harris.
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Kiffin will wait and see what happens during Thursday’s court hearing before the two players are officially added to the roster. The final 105-man roster has to be submitted on Friday.
Lane Kiffin is the main character
Kiffin is heavily involved with this situation, and that’s not going to change before Friday’s roster deadline.
However, this is only one of his storylines during the 2026 college football season. He’s tasked with taking over an LSU program that fired Brian Kelly during the 2025 season and finished the year with only seven wins.
He’s got some big games on the schedule for this season, including one against Clemson this Saturday and one against Ole Miss in Oxford on Sept. 19. We should find out pretty quickly how good this LSU team is.
Speaking of Ole Miss, the program will try to do better under head coach Pete Golding after he took over for Kiffin in the CFP. Trinidad Chambliss is also back at quarterback for another season.
Get ready for a lot more Kiffin storylines throughout the season.
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