LSU Playoff or Bust? Which SEC Coaches Under Biggest Microscope? Jesse Simonton Interview
That SEC Football Podcast
Michael Bratton/SEC Mike
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Hey, one of our favorites back on the show, been too long. |
| 0:13.0 | Jesse Simonton, you know him, of course, from the Surrender Cobra Substack. |
| 0:19.0 | Jesse, how you been, man? |
| 0:20.5 | Doing well, trying to stay warm. |
| 0:22.5 | It's dipping into the sub-freezing temps this morning in Florida, too. |
| 0:27.0 | So trying to get it up north of 40 if we can. |
| 0:30.6 | Well, I'll tell you where it is warming up pretty quickly, Jesse, and you wrote about it, |
| 0:35.9 | so you know all about it. |
| 0:36.8 | But that'd be old Baton Rouge with Lane, I call him quitting. |
| 0:41.1 | Lane Kiffin dominating the transfer portal once again. |
| 0:45.3 | Man, does this immediately make LSU with Lane Kiffin a contender you think next season in the |
| 0:51.0 | SEC and, of course, the college football playoff? |
| 0:54.3 | Well, they better be right. |
| 0:55.5 | I mean, that's why he left the team that he said he didn't think could win a championship. |
| 1:00.5 | They won two more playoff games and he has on his resume. |
| 1:04.5 | And now he's going to a school that besides Brian Kelly, every other coach, you know, |
| 1:10.0 | their last three coaches have won |
| 1:11.4 | not only an SEC championship with Lane has never done, but they've won a national |
| 1:15.9 | championship. And that's the expectations. You know, it's funny, Mike, because you can't frame |
| 1:21.1 | it the same, but the guy that Lane Kiven is replacing Brian Kelly,, he is doing what Brian Kelly did. |
| 1:29.0 | Brian Kelly left Notre Dame because he decided that he could not win a national championship at Notre Dame. |
| 1:35.8 | Marcus Freeman in the very next year was like, bet and got Notre Dame to the national championship. |
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