By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor
The best thing about LSU’s 32-24 loss at Ole Miss last Saturday is that LSU defensive coordinator Blake Baker will not have to see quarterback Trinidad Chambliss again – unless it’s in the Southeastern Conference Championship Game on Dec. 5 in Atlanta or in the College Football Playoff.
Let the rest of the SEC deal with the elusive, whirling dervish, sixth-year senior quarterback from Ole Miss by way of Division II Ferris State in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Lane Kiffin’s “Just Different” LSU experience will become “Really Different”if he loses tonight. Column:https://t.co/YwQqvlSRFX
— Glenn Guilbeau (@SportBeatTweet) September 26, 2026
Better be ready, No. 21 Florida today (2:30 p.m., ABC), No. 1 Texas on Oct. 24 in Austin, and watch and learn, Arch Manning. And good luck in Oxford, No. 2 Georgia on Nov. 7, No. 19 Missouri on Oct. 17 and No. 24 Mississippi State on Nov. 27.
Chambliss (6-foot-10, 185 pounds) riddled LSU on 33-of-48 passing for 363 yards and two touchdowns while rushing nine times for 36 yards with a naked, 14-yard boot leg TD untouched for a 30-24 lead with 6:14 left before a two-point conversion from former LSU running back JT Lindsey.
“Out biggest fear every minute was the game at the end, and Trinidad has the ball in his hand,” said LSU coach Lane Kiffin, who brought him to Oxford from Ferris State before the 2025 season, but after spring drills when Kiffin was the coach at Ole Miss.
Chambliss and No. 13 Ole Miss shredded No. 4 LSU and Baker’s defense and former head coach Brian Kelly on Sept. 22, 2025, to the tune of 314 yards passing as Chambliss hit 23 of 39 and rushed 14 times for another 71 yards. He didn’t even get the starting job until week three last year, but Chambliss finished third in the nation with 3,937 passing yards with 22 TDs, while rushing for 527 and eight touchdowns. He and Kiffin put Ole Miss in the playoffs before Kiffin left for LSU.
It must have been difficult for Kiffin to watch the guy he brought to Oxford beat him in Oxford.
“He made a lot of plays,” Kiffin said. “That’s why he’s the hardest player to play in America.”
And that’s why Kiffin tried so hard to get Chambliss to transfer to LSU – even while Chambliss was preparing for postseason games.
On the Sunday after the Ole Miss game, Kiffin couldn’t stop talking about Chambliss.
“We did pretty good on first and second downs, and he would just make either critical on-time throws with people on him or out-of-rhythm throws running backwards,” he said.
About to be sacked in the third quarter, Chambliss channeled Patrick Mahomes and flipped to a receiver for 19 yards. Kiffin threw up his hands in disgust.
“It was my first time on the other side of it,” Kiffin said. “And he’s even better now. I said to our staff, ‘Guys, you’re going to play a 24-year-old that the first guy never tackles. That’s like putting Caleb Williams back and having to defend him now in college.”
Williams, the first pick of the 2024 NFL Draft out of USC, is 24 and in his third year as Chicago’s quarterback.
“And I’m not sure I wouldn’t rather go against Caleb – no disrespect to him,” Kiffin said.
And to think it was Kiffin who helped get Chambliss a sixth year after the NCAA said no to that request involving a missed year at Ferris State due to injury. Kiffin recommended noted sports attorney Tom Mars to Chambliss’ camp last December after Kiffin was at LSU.
Naturally, Kiffin wanted Chambliss at LSU for year six, but he still helped him get back to Ole Miss indirectly. Ole Miss already had lawyers William Liston and Trey Byars on the job, and perhaps Mars was not needed.
But as Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger reported, Mars did receive a Chambliss No. 6 jersey in the mail after a Mississippi judge ruled last February for Chambliss’ sixth year.
“It’s really funny,” Mars told Dellenger. “Lane set this in motion.”
Or set Chambliss in motion again.
You’re welcome, Ole Miss.
And new Florida coach Jon Sumrall, likely by this evening after another Ole Miss win, and the rest of the SEC and the nation have yet another reason to cuss Lane Kiffin.
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