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Talk of Champions

Whatcha hearing? The latest from Ole Miss and Florida insiders on Lane Kiffin

Talk of Champions

OMSpirit

Sports

4.7677 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Ole Miss Spirit’s Ben Garrett joined Gator Online’s Keith Niebuhr to discuss the latest rumors surrounding sixth-year Rebel head coach Lane Kiffin. 

Kiffin hasn’t committed to Ole Miss beyond the 2025-26 season. The Rebels are 9-1 for the first time in 63 years and barreling towards their first-ever College Football Playoff berth. They came in at No. 7 in this week’s batch of rankings.

How long can Ole Miss realistically wait? Would the Rebels allow him to coach the playoffs if he’s headed to Florida? How serious are other candidates for the Gators? What is Florida’s NIL situation? 

Garrett and Niebuhr cover it all.



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0:00.0

Ben Garrett of Ole Miss Spirit, one of our good friends, joins the show. Ben, who's going to be drinking more Medellos on Saturday night? Florida fans or Ole Miss fans? What's your prediction? What do you got? Wow, you're just like right out of the gates with it, huh? Like, not even like a little feeling out process. No. The prediction wolves here. He comes in hot, Ben. It's been a rough couple of months here. We just cut right to the chase, man. Hey, that's, I mean, I think Ole Miss is winning this weekend. I don't think, you know, anyone would kind of argue differently. You know, I think the line's pretty, it's way too big. I think it's going to be a competitive football game for myriad reasons.

0:38.7

But if you're Ole Miss, man, you're barreling towards the college football playoff,

0:42.6

your first ever college football playoff birth, playing good football,

0:47.1

defense really coming around, especially after that Georgia disaster.

0:51.0

And now they're top 30 in a handful of categories and they're getting sacks

0:55.6

and they're and they're actually making plays on the ball.

0:58.5

So there's a lot to like about this old most team as it heads to the college football

1:01.2

playoff.

1:01.7

And while I think Florida with like I love Jadenball, I think DJ Lagway, I'm still a believer in

1:06.8

DJ Lagway.

1:07.7

I just think it's been an absolute disaster class, like the worst kind of scenario for him to be

1:13.5

successful.

1:14.3

But, you know, I think that this is a team.

1:16.5

And they showed last year, man.

1:17.5

And that's what Lane Kiffin said this week, man.

1:20.1

Like what Ole Miss remembers is the DJ Lagway that was, seems like, the favorite to be the next great guy,

1:28.9

next great quarterback in college football with what he did against Ole Miss last year. And, you know, that's what Ole Miss thinks about. I don't think about the guy that got best against Kentucky. They don't think about the guy that struggled or the Florida team that's only got three wins to their first nine. They know what this team has as far as talent and how much of a challenge is going

1:48.0

to be and how beating them last year derailed their college football playoff chances. So, yeah,

1:53.7

I think Ole Miss is prepared for it. And if you made me put a guess on it, I think Old Miss is going to

1:57.5

win. It's going to be tighter than it needs to be for a few quarters. But I think Ole Miss ultimately wins about a couple scores. I want to say like 38, 24 or something like that. But yeah, 15 and a half seems a little rich for me. Well, I'm going to agree with that, Ben. I actually got a bolt on this show to make it to tie Golden. But I wanted to make sure that I got these questions into you. I'm going to agree with your pick. I'm going to pick Ole Miss as well so the folks listen to the show can get my prediction. But I got to ask you this. And for all of our listeners out there that are making our way to Oxford, where the heck do we need to go to

2:34.3

eat? Oh, man. I mean, like, I thought you were going straight to the lane stuff.

2:40.6

Man, if it were me, and I've been doing it for most all my life, proud Larry's has always been

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