Lane Kiffin became LSU’s head coach in November 2025, ushering in a new era of offensive innovation and championship expectations. This page tracks Lane Kiffin’s LSU Coaching Staff, Offensive system, recruiting efforts, roster development and the latest news and analysis.
Latest Lane Kiffin News and Analysis
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Lane Kiffin at LSU: Coaching Staff, Offensive System, Recruiting, Latest News
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Dilin Jones Is LSU’s MVP, Charles Hanagriff Tells Tiger Rag Radio
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor The 944th ranked transfer portal player of 2026 and 75th best running back is the Most Valuable Player on the LSU football team through eight games, said ESPN 104.5 FM radio show host Charles Hanagriff on Tiger Rag Radio this week. Yes, LSU redshirt sophomore running back Dilin Jones,…
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Alabama vs. LSU: Matchups That Could Decide Saturday’s Game | TODD HORNE
HORNE: Why I Like LSU Against Alabama — And What Could Change That HORNE: Why I Like LSU Against Alabama — And What Could Change That By Todd Horne | Vice President & Executive Editor, Tiger Rag I expect LSU to beat Alabama on Saturday. There is no need to tiptoe into the prediction. The…
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LSU Tight End Trey’Dez Green Has Come Miles From Not Knowing How To Get In a 3-Point Stance
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Trey’Dez Green approached football like it was basketball when he first got to LSU in 2024 from Zachary High just outside Baton Rouge. This was because at 6-foot-7 and 225 pounds, he was as good or better at basketball than football, where he was ranked as the No. 2…
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Lane Kiffin Sees The Light As His Daylight Winning Time Tigers Prepare To Host Alabama Saturday By Day
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor You might say, LSU football coach Lane Kiffin has flipped the sunlight switch to on, as he suddenly sees the light as to playing by day in Tiger Stadium. No. 15 LSU (6-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) hosts No. 9 Alabama (6-2, 4-2 SEC) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday on ABC…
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Lane Kiffin Sorry To See LSU-Bama Go Away For 2027 Season After Critical Duel Saturday In Tiger Stadium
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor This will be the last time … for two years. And that’s a long time in between games for a rivalry like LSU-Alabama, particularly on the LSU side, as the Tigers do not have a natural in-state rival on their level as Alabama has with Auburn. And LSU-Alabama has…
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Lane Kiffin Talks Preparation For His First LSU-Alabama Matchup With The Tigers
LSU coach Lane Kiffin is preparing to lead the No. 15 Tigers (6-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) into a pivotal stretch of the season. LSU is one of six SEC teams with two losses and will host No. 9 Alabama (6-2, 4-2 SEC) on Saturday in Tiger Stadium at 2:30 p.m. (ABC). The Tigers and Crimson…
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LSU Football Stretch Run – No. 9 Alabama, No. 10 Texas, At No. 16 Tennessee, At Arkansas – To College Football Playoff
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor No. 15 LSU opens a treacherous trek against a trio of ranked teams Saturday against No. 9 Alabama (6-2, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) at Tiger Stadium (2:30 p.m., ABC). Then it’s No. 10 Texas (6-2, 3-2 SEC) in Tiger Stadium and No. 16 Tennessee (6-2, 3-2 SEC) on the road.…
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USA TODAY’s Matt Hayes Gets the LSU-SEC Legal Fight Wrong
TIGER RAG.com The Bible of LSU Sports Todd Horne Column Matt Hayes Says LSU Started This. He Has the Chronology Backward. By Todd Horne Vice President & Executive Editor, Tiger Rag November 1, 2026 In his Oct. 30 column, USA TODAY columnist Matt Hayes did more than argue that LSU has handled its fight with…
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That’s 3 LSU Football Transfers Who Owe Previous Schools Money For Breach Of NIL Contracts, Lawsuits Say
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Perhaps LSU football coach Lane Kiffin and general manager Billy Glasscock need to review future transfer portal targets’ previous contracts with their previous schools, or at least ask if there is one, before proceeding and then keep up with such binding agreements after signing transfers. Because the third LSU…
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LSU’s Whit Weeks May Play Vs. Bama As He Is Expected To Return To Practice Next Week After Breaking Leg
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU starting linebacker Whit Weeks is expected back at practice next week and will have a chance to play against Alabama on Saturday, Nov. 7, in Tiger Stadium after suffering a broken leg against Texas A&M on Sept. 26. Weeks, a senior who became one of LSU’s top players…
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Lane Kiffin Assumed Bama-LSU Would Be At Night … Like It Was Every Year From 2011-18 And 2020-25
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Lane Kiffin is blending in well as LSU’s football coach less than a year on the job. He already believes in some of the silly conspiracy theories and myths of the LSU Nation. Why else would the Southeastern Conference not give LSU its usual night kickoff for a home…
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LSU Football At Open Date: Tigers Are Playing Their Level Best Heading Into Stretch Run
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor There is only one Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football team in the country that is in the top six in total offense and total defense right now. That is your LSU Tigers under first-year coach Lane Kiffin. Kiffin’s and offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr.’s offense is No. 6…
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Is Sam Leavitt Entering The Joe Burrow Zone? LSU QB Completes 30 Passes In Back-To-Back Games
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU coach Lane Kiffin had a statistic he wanted to share Sunday as a question about quarterback Sam Leavitt’s progress was asked. “Well, Sam’s done a really good job of putting together two really good back-to-back games,” he said. Then he found his game notes left by LSU sports…
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Lane Kiffin’s Hiring Of Ex-USC Coach Pete Carroll’s Son Revealed … With A Comment Greg Sankey Will Love
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU football coach Lane Kiffin kept secret an offensive assistant hiring over the summer, possibly so he does not upset Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey. Kiffin added Nate Carroll as an offensive analyst before this season, but that was never made public until Sunday during Kiffin’s weekly teleconference with…
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Trey’Dez Green Left Auburn Game Because Of “Hip-Drop” Tackles, Lane Kiffin Explains
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU tight end Trey’Dez Green dazzled during the Tigers’ 38-17 win at Auburn on Saturday in his first game since injuring his knee at Ole Miss on Sept. 19. He caught five passes for 50 yards through 50 snaps, but four of those catches for 40 yards with a…
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LSU Rises To No. 15 In A.P. Poll After Rolling Auburn, 38-17, And Breaking Road Hex
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Jordan-Hare Stadium started emptying early Saturday afternoon at Auburn. Toomer’s Corner? That place where the Auburn Nation flocks downtown after significant wins to wrap it in toilet paper as if it’s a Christmas snow? Barren. In an equally barren spot of Jordan-Hare late in LSU’s 38-17 rolling of Auburn…
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LSU’s Best Win Of 2026 Was Proof Of Investment In Lane Kiffin At $13 Million A Year And That $50 Million Roster | Glenn Guilbeau
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor You don’t always get what you pay for in sports. That’s why two of the lower payroll teams in Major League Baseball are in the World Series right now – the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays. And the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees are not. But…
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LSU’s Auburn Breakthrough Sets Up a Defining November
TODD HORNE: LSU Finally Looks Like the Team Lane Kiffin Had in Mind | Tiger Rag Tiger Rag · LSU Football · Opinion TODD HORNE: LSU Finally Looks Like the Team Lane Kiffin Had in Mind By Todd Horne Vice President & Executive Editor, Tiger Rag October 24, 2026 Trey’Dez Green returned to LSU’s offense…
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Lane Kiffin Auburn Postgame Press Conference
No. 18 LSU (6-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) expelled its road demons with a 38-16 win against Auburn (4-3, 2-3 SEC). Lane Kiffin’s Tigers notched their first away win this season and first conference win in enemy territory since 2024. After miscues on both sides of the ball in its first two away games this season,…
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LSU Football Road Trip! Tigers Turn It Into A Vacation On The Plains As Tigers Run Over Auburn, 38-17
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Somebody cue up Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down A Dream” – the ultimate road trip anthem. Because No. 18 LSU was on its way home Saturday afternoon from Auburn, Alabama, with its first road win in the Southeastern Conference in two years – 38-17 over Auburn – in front of…
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LSU Football Turns In Finest 1st Half Of Season In Taking 31-10 Lead At Auburn With 346 Yards Of Offense
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU took the War out of Eagle in the first half of its game at Auburn on Saturday by silencing any War Eagle battle cries with 346 yards of offense to 167 while taking a commanding, 31-10 lead at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Quarterback Sam Leavitt completed 21 of 27 passes…
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Will Lane Kiffin Join The Earth Shaking, Fire Breaking, Wild LSU-Auburn Rivalry? There Is A Plot Line
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor If any college football program should really hate Lane Kiffin, it’s Auburn, which hosts the LSU football coach and his Tigers in a Separation Saturday duel at 11 a.m. on ABC in Jordan-Hare Stadium. No. 18 LSU (5-2, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) and Auburn (4-2, 2-2 SEC) each need a…
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Lane Kiffin Radio Show: Trey’Dez Green Expected To Play At Auburn, But So Will Trey’Dez Mothergreen
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU transfer wide receiver/tight end Roman Mothershed can’t wait to see starting tight end Trey’Dez Green play again on Saturday after missing the Tigers’ last four games with a knee injury. Even though, Green’s injury opened a door for Mothershed, who was moved to tight end three games ago.…
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TODD HORNE: Why LSU Basketball Is Underrated and LSU Football Can Beat Auburn
Wade has his roster and Kiffin needs his road win | Todd Horne | Tiger Rag TODD HORNE COLUMN Wade has his roster and Kiffin needs his road win By TODD HORNE Vice President & Executive Editor, Tiger Rag October 21, 2026 Will Wade finally has enough players for the rest of the Southeastern Conference…
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Lane Kiffin Shrugs Off Tigers’ Road Woes … Both Losses By Combined 9 Points To Top 12 Teams That Are 11-2
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Lane Kiffin is neither a Road Warrior nor a Road Worrier. He may be 1-10 as a Southeastern Conference coach against ranked SEC teams on the road since 2009, but he is not trending that trend. Kiffin was 13-11 on the road overall in the SEC while at Ole…
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Lane Kiffin Returns To “Haunted” Jordan-Hare Stadium, Where He Could Be Coaching For Auburn Instead Of LSU
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU football coach Lane Kiffin has heard that Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium is haunted, but that was not enough to attract him enough to take the head coaching job there after the 2022 season. “I don’t think it’s haunted, but there is some magical stuff that has happened in there,”…
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LSU Coach Lane Kiffin Prepares For Another SEC Road Matchup
LSU coach Lane Kiffin and the Tigers (5-2, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) got back in the win column with an emphatic 31-0 shutout of Mississippi State (4-2, 2-2 SEC). After its first SEC shutout since 2007, No. 18 LSU will turn to an Auburn (4-2, 2-2 SEC) team coming off a 27-24 road upset of top-ranked…
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LSU Injured WR Jackson Harris “Will Be Fine,” Lane Kiffin Says, Princewill Umanmielen Likely Questionable
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor It sounds like LSU top wide receiver Jackson Harris may be able to play Saturday when the No. 18 Tigers (5-2, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) play at Auburn (4-2, 2-2 SEC) at Jordan-Hare Stadium at 11 a.m. on ABC. Harris suffered an apparent ankle injury in the third quarter of…
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TODD HORNE: Kiffin Built LSU to Compete With Anybody. Can This Team Win Five Straight?
By TODD HORNE, Vice President & Executive Editor, Tiger Rag Lane Kiffin believes LSU could compete with anybody in college football if it were healthy. After Saturday’s 31–0 shutout of Mississippi State, he made clear that he still feels that way. “This team was built to be a championship team,” Kiffin said, adding that it…
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LSU Defense Did Something Saturday It Has Not Done Through 154 SEC Games
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU defensive coordinator Blake Baker’s unit did something Saturday that not even one of the greatest defenses in LSU and Southeastern Conference history could do. The Tigers shut out an SEC opponent on Saturday in a 31-0 win over No. 16 Mississippi State for the first time since the…
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Lane Kiffin Postgame Press Conference After Mississippi State Shutout
LSU coach Lane Kiffin and the Tigers got back on track with a 31-0 routing of a shorthanded No. 16 Mississippi State. The Bayou Bandits defense pitched its first shutout of the season with Bulldogs quarterback Kamario Taylor and running back Fluff Bothwell both sidelined. Quarterback Sam Leavitt also had his first game without a…
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LSU Blows Out Mississippi State In Most Complete Performance Of The Season
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU seized the morning and the day for its most impressive win of the season, 31-0, over No. 16 Mississippi State in its first Southeastern Conference shutout since 2007 before a sold-out crowd of 102,321 on a gorgeous and crisp Saturday at Tiger Stadium. State was significantly outmanned, however,…
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LSU Vs. Mississippi State: Not A Must Win For Lane Kiffin Or Tigers, But They Desperately Need To Save Face
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor The honeymoon for Lane Kiffin is not over. But it’s already not very special. Sort of like getting the honeymoon suite at a Shoney’s Inn in Opelika, Alabama, and there actually was one of those. And if there was still a Shoney’s Inn in Opelika, that’s where LSU should…
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LSU Students Protesting Alleged Rapist Damien Shanklin Being On Football Team Are Ejected From Board Meeting
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU Police escorted four protesters from the LSU Board of Supervisors meeting after they criticized LSU’s handling of an investigation into a rape allegation against LSU football player Damien Shanklin during the public comment period at the meeting on Friday morning. LSU student Ziad Eissa told reporters outside that…
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Lane Kiffin Sums Up Loss To Kentucky … LSU Was 0-for-4 On Chances To End Game With Win
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU football coach Lane Kiffin visited his 35-34 overtime loss last week at Kentucky one more time on his weekly radio show Thursday night before putting it away likely for good. After being asked about it by show host Chris Blair, who did say, “Bear with me,” Kiffin responded…
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Lane Kiffin’s 4th-And-1 Punt: Long Time Media Friend Of LSU Coach “Surprised He Didn’t Go For It”
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor There were many smart and convincing arguments that LSU coach Lane Kiffin considered before not going for it on fourth down and less than a yard to go at the Tigers’ 43-yard line and leading, 27-24, at Kentucky on Saturday night with just 1:46 to play. -The defense was…
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Tiger Rag Radio: How Do Lane Kiffin And LSU Respond To A Shocking Loss?
Tiger Rag looks back on the LSU’s 35-34 overtime loss at Kentucky: defensive breakdowns, controversial calls and costly turnovers. Mississippi State columnist Rick Cleveland with Mississippi Today gives an update on Bulldogs quarterback Kamario Taylor and breaks down the surprise team of the Southeastern Conference. Preston Guy with Tiger Bait gives the latest on top…
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Todd Horne: SEC Pushes to Keep LSU Lawsuit Alive as Liz Murrill Calls It ‘Garbage’
TODD HORNE COLUMN LSU Remains in a Fog as Far as the SEC Is Concerned By TODD HORNE Vice President & Executive Editor, Tiger Rag Dense fog in Baton Rouge kept Will Wade, Kim Mulkey and their players from getting to Birmingham for SEC basketball media days Tuesday morning. Their plane could not take off,…