Tony Barnhart isn’t convinced Lane Kiffin’s leaving Ole Miss
Talk of Champions
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Lane Kiffin is the hottest name in what is already one of the wildest coaching carousels in college football history. But Tony ‘Mr. College Football’ Barnhart wouldn’t be surprised to see Kiffin stick around at Ole Miss.
Kiffin, the fastest Ole Miss coach to 50 wins in history, is a leading candidate for openings at both Florida and LSU. Sources indicate Florida is far and away the biggest threat of the two.
Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz is the betting favorite for the Florida job, according to Bet Online. Tulane’s Jon Sumrall is the betting favorite for LSU.
However, Barnhart told Ole Miss Spirit contributor Brad Logan that Kiffin’s decision may be tougher than most realize given the unique situation he’s built in Oxford.
No. 7 Ole Miss (7-1, 4-1 SEC) hosts South Carolina (3-5, 1-5) Saturday at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN. Kiffin isn’t the only coach in the game dealing with silly-season rumors.
Logan is also joined by Grayson Weir of BroBile to talk all things Ole Miss and SEC football.
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| 1:32.3 | over SEC radio, either 104,4.5, the zone in Nashville or on Sirius XM |
| 1:39.1 | satellite radio. Tony, looking at the SEC in general, what are your kind of overall 10,000 feet view of the SEC this year? |
| 1:47.9 | Well, Brad, what I've said about this year, this year in the conference is that I've never seen so many good teams in the league. |
| 1:56.2 | The league is as deep as it's ever been of teams that can beat you on a given Saturday. |
| 2:00.6 | It goes at least |
| 2:01.7 | 90 because I was working on my little playoff picture the other day. Now, is there a great |
| 2:08.2 | team in this conference? I'm not sure. I'm not sure there is. But there's a bunch of teams. |
| 2:14.1 | There's more teams than ever that could win, certainly make the college football playoff a lot of really really good teams well let's start at the top uh two teams that |
| 2:23.4 | match up this weekend we don't know if arch manning is going to be able to go the the probability |
| 2:28.8 | report came out and um obviously he is in concussion protocol but but Vanderbilt travels to Texas. |
| 2:34.7 | It's odd. We're saying Vanderbilt. It's one of the best teams in the conference, Tony. But, you know, you've been around a while. Clark Lee's done a phenomenal job. Those are two teams that are at the top. What I tell people about Vanderbilt is that they're not doing this with smoke and mirrors. They're not doing any kind of a fancy offense. They are lining up and blocking and tackling people. |
| 2:53.9 | And they're... doing this with smoke and mirrors. They're not doing any kind of a fancy offense. They are lining up and blocking and tackling people. And |
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