Lane Kiffin Embarrasses Himself Again After Win Over Duke

The 2024-2025 College Football Bowl Season has been dominated by the SEC. Not on the field, so much, where SEC teams have lost high-profile games to USC, Michigan, Illinois, Notre Dame and Ohio State. But off the field, where the conference's fans have acted as if three-loss teams deserved to make the College Football Playoff over one loss teams from other major conferences.

Along with those wildly incorrect fans are some of the SEC's top coaches, including Lane Kiffin of Ole Miss. Kiffin was livid after the committee correctly decided that three-loss SEC teams did not deserve inclusion, then went mostly silent as his conference mates obliterated that perspective by getting dominated by Big Ten backups. 

Kiffin's team though, held up its end of the bargain, dominating a diminished Duke team missing star quarterback Maalik Murphy. It was a solid win, showcasing Ole Miss at its best. It also didn't change a single thing about whether or not Ole Miss deserved to be in the playoff. Something Kiffin and quarterback Jaxson Dart clearly didn't understand.

BATON ROUGE, La. - Head coach Lane Kiffin of the Mississippi Rebels reacts against the LSU Tigers during a game at Tiger Stadium on October 12, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)

In the postgame press conference, Lane Kiffin and Jaxson Dart both said that the Rebels were out to make a statement with their game against Duke. Because Duke took playoff team SMU to overtime earlier in the season.

"That's a really good team. We played a team that won nine games and had one of the best defenses statistically in the country," Kiffin said. "I think they were best in negative plays in the ACC and very well coached. I know our guys talked a lot over the course of the month,