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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SEC Media Days: Kirby Smart Trolls “Troll” Lane Kiffin By Calling Him “The Adonis Of College Football”
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor New LSU football coach Lane Kiffin has been called a lot of things, particularly by dumped Ole Miss fans because he left them, and by overly dramatic national media members who seem to conveniently forget that several other coaches agreed to new jobs during the 2025 regular season. Kiffin…
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SEC Media Days: Lane Kiffin Doesn’t Arrive Until Thursday, But It Seems Like He’s Already There
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor The arrival of LSU football coach Lane Kiffin is still two days away in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday for the Southeastern Conference Media Days. But his presence was in the air and on the podiums at the Tampa Marriott Water Street on Monday as the four-day talk fest began.…
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The Year LSU Changed Everything
The Year LSU Changed Everything | Tiger Rag Tiger Rag • July 2026 Cover Story The Year LSU Changed Everything Brian Kelly was fired. Scott Woodward was toppled. Wade Rousse assumed control. Verge Ausberry took command. Lane Kiffin arrived at the nation’s loudest stage. Will Wade returned from exile. In one season, LSU did not…
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LSU’s Revamped Offensive Line Will Be A Mix Of New Blood And Old Purple And Gold
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Next to wide receiver, the biggest restoration project that LSU coach Lane Kiffin and his staff broke ground on during the portal period last December and January was the offensive line. Kiffin brought in nine wide receivers for a position that will usually have three to five on the…
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SEC Media Days Starts Today, But The Star Of The Show Won’t Be There Until Thursday
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor There has been word that attendance at the Southeastern Conference Football Media Days will not be as high as it has been in recent years with the four-day gala of press conferences moving to Florida for the first time after years in the more sensible, centrally located Birmingham, Alabama,…
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Why LSU Football Coach Lane Kiffin Is The Yoda Of Ultra-Modern College Football Offenses
By GLENN GUILBEAU Tiger Rag Editor The nationally ranked offensive numbers produced by coach Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss from 2020-25 were constant through a parade of quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and offensive coordinators. Also constant was a very fast up tempo style, tempered by effective run games with running backs and run-pass options with…
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LSU Football: No. 1 Wide Receiver Monshun Sales Commits To Home State Indiana As Expected
TIGER RAG NEWS SERVICES LSU football coach Lane Kiffin tried, but top wide receiver Monshun Sales of Indianapolis stayed in his home state and picked the other former offensive assistant of Nick Saban. Sales, who is the No. 1 wide receiver in the nation by 247sports.com and No. 2 by On3.com, committed to defending national…
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Lane Kiffin And The Good Life: LSU Coach’s Vacation Log Via Private Plane Perk Falls Under His Contract
By PIPER HUTCHINSON, Louisiana Illuminator/Tiger Rag Magazine LSU football coach Lane Kiffin took his family to Boca Raton, Florida, using his private airplane travel benefits at a cost of $40,000 to LSU donors, according to LSU Board of Supervisors documents. Kiffin’s employment contract allows him 65 hours of private air travel for personal use, a perk…
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LSU Football: Here Are 5 Candidates To Be Breakout Players For The Tigers In 2026
By KACE KIESCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter There are plenty of players to choose from for a high five selection of projected breakout players on the 2026 LSU football team, particularly when you consider new coach Lane Kiffin signed the No. 1 portal class in the nation in January with 41 players. Here is our…
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Lane Kiffin Much Different Than Expected, Says LSU Sports Information Director Michael Bonnette On Tiger Rag Radio
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor – An introvert. – Aloof. – Doesn’t always connect well with his players. That is how new LSU football coach Lane Kiffin has been described throughout his coaching career by media members, media relations officials and other coaches. “I’m still learning and getting to know him,” LSU associate athletic…
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LSU Football By The Numbers: 10 Digits That Will Define The 2026 Season
By KACE KIEISCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter This is your paint-by-numbers guide for LSU’s 2026 football season. 59.26% That is the percentage of the LSU roster that was not on the team last year — 64 of the 108 total players. There are five returning starters on offense, four on defense. This is a new…
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Where Do Rookie Pete Golding And Lane Kiffin Rank Among SEC Coaches – 1 Through 16? | Glenn Guilbeau
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Will the next Nick Saban please stand up! Saban has been gone for two seasons now, and it should come as no coincidence that suddenly the Southeastern Conference has fallen from grace. The Big Ten just means more and has taken over college football with three consecutive national championships…
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Tiger Rag Radio: LSU SEC Media Days Preview & LSU’s Biggest Wins of the MLB Draft
Entering his 27th season, Michael Bonnette has worked beside Nick Saban, Les Miles, Ed Orgeron, Brian Kelly and now Lane Kiffin. That perspective gave unusual weight to what he said next. Here is the complete transcript of the show from YouTube. Tiger Rag apologizes for any AI generated mistakes: 0:00 Y’all ready? Y’all ready? Let’s…
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LSU Football: Lane Kiffin’s Portal Class Leads The Way With 8 On ESPN’s Top 100 List
By KACE KIEISCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter LSU put the most football players on ESPN’s top 100 transfers list for the 2026 season with eight, including three in the top five. Redshirt junior quarterback Sam Leavitt of Arizona State leads LSU’s 41-player transfer class at No. 2 on the list, followed by former five-star junior…
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LSU Football Season Will Likely Swing On The Arm, Legs And Right Foot Of QB Sam Leavitt
By KACE KIEISCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter The 2026 LSU Tigers will go as far as redshirt junior quarterback Sam Leavitt’s rightarm and legs can take them. Fortunately for Lane Kiffin and the Tigers, Leavitt was the No. 1 prospect in the transferportal and has a proven record of excelling in year one in a…
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Ole Miss Sour Grapes Update: Rebels Looking Into Lawsuit Vs. 2 Former Players Who Followed Lane Kiffin To LSU
By KACE KIEISCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter Almost two months out from LSU and Ole Miss’s highly anticipated Sept. 19 football matchup in Oxford, Mississippi, yet another battle between the Rebels and Tigers could be brewing off the field. Ole Miss Athletic Director Keith Carter said the university would be open to taking LSU defensive…
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Which Tigers Should Be At Media Days? Tiger Rag Endorses QB Sam Leavitt, OT Jordan Seaton, LB Whit Weeks
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor The Southeastern Conference office is expected to name the three players from all 16 member football programs that will be attending SEC Media Days next Monday through Thursday in Tampa. LSU coach Lane Kiffin and three Tigers will appear before throngs of media on Thursday morning at the Marriott…
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LSU Football: Consider The Tigers’ Wide Receiver Room To Be Very Wide And Deep
By KACE KIEISCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter Lane Kiffin did not just reload the wide receiver room for his first season as LSU’s footbal coach, he went out and stacked up a completely new arsenal. Redshirt Freshman Phillip Wright III was the only returner from the 13 wide receivers on the 2025 roster. Kiffin welcomed…
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LSU Football May Have World Class TE Attack Via Trey’Dez Green And Kiffin&Weis Expertise
By KACE KIEISCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter For Lane Kiffin’s offense to succeed in year one of the new LSU head coach, he’ll need consistent contribution from his tight end room. Lucky for him, that may just be the best position group on the Tigers’ roster. The Walter Camp Football Foundation seems to agree, naming…
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LSU Football: Get Ready For Tigers 1st Real Running Game Since 2019
By KACE KIEISCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter LSU football coach Lane Kiffin will hope to revive a once-feared rushing attack in Baton Rouge in 2026. The first-year Tigers coach inherits last season’s leading ball carriers in junior Caden Durham and sophomore Harlem Berry, and he welcomes transfers Dilin Jones, Rod Gainey Jr., Raycine Guillory Jr.,…
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Lane Kiffin Laying Low Is Odd, National Writer Chris Low Tells Tiger Rag Radio
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor On3.com national college football writer Chris Low has known LSU coach Lane Kiffin since Kiffin’s first season in the Southeastern Conference as Tennessee’s head coach in 2009. And he’s never seen the 51-year-old Kiffin as he is now, Low said on Tiger Rag Radio on Tuesday night. Listen to…
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LSU Football: Lane Kiffin’s Quarterback Room Filled To The Brim With Talent Entering 2026 Season
By KACE KIEISCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter Lane Kiffin welcomed a trio of new transfer quarterbacks to Baton Rouge this off-season. Redshirt junior Sam Leavitt leads the group as the No.1 ranked transfer prize in the Portal King’s class of 41 from the portal. Redshirt freshman USC transfer Husan Longstreet is a young, athletic talent…
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Tiger Rag Radio: Rebuilding LSU Athletics
On3.com (http://on3.com) ’s Glen West and Chris Low preview the first year under football coach Lane Kiffin and basketball coach Will Wade and how they’re building their rosters. We discuss realistic expectations for the Tigers and how LSU compares to national powerhouses.
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LSU Football Recruiting: The Summer Of Lane Continues As Tigers Gain Commitment From Safety Jayden Anding
By KACE KIEISCHNICK, Tiger Rag Staff Reporter Lane Kiffin received his 16th commitment to LSU’s 2027 high school recruiting class on Tuesday afternoon. Four-star safety Jayden Anding of Ruston High in Ruston gave his verbal pledge to LSU on the Rivals YouTube channel live show. Anding (5-foot-10, 165 pounds) chose to follow his brother –…
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Lane Kiffin And Ole Miss Would Have Lost To Miami In CFP Semi, Too – Yahoo’s Dan Wolken On Tiger Rag Radio
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Radio What if? What if Lane Kiffin had remained as Ole Miss’ head football coach last season? Or what if he had taken the LSU job, but had been allowed to coach his Rebels of six seasons in the College Football Playoffs, which he guided Ole Miss to for the…
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Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss Disagrees With Vanity Fair Comments By Lane Kiffin About Being Black In Oxford
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor When Division II Ferris State quarterback Trinidad Chambliss and his family from Grand Rapids, Michigan, went down south in early 2025 to Ole Miss on a recruiting visit with then-Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin, the Oxford they saw did not have the reputation that Kiffin later described second hand…
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Tiger Rag Radio: Momentum building for an Easton Royal LSU flip
We break down the NCAA’s 5-for-5 eligibility system and how it could impact the Tigers. Tigerbait. (http://tigerbait.com) com (http://tigerbait.com) ’s Preston Guy gives the latest on LSU’s pursuit of Texas commit Easton Royal. Tempers flare as we debate what’s next for college athletics with the impending Protect College Sports Act.
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Lane Kiffin Tweets Again … Sort Of … With A Ghost Of A Repost
TIGER RAG NEWS SERVICES LSU football coach Lane Kiffin has not sent out an original tweet since May 11. But he did repost a tweet that may be a signal of quiet preparation from Kiffin and his program going into the 2026 season. 5/11/26 pic.twitter.com/dPABjcSAxg — Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) June 18, 2026 The tweet with…
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Lane Kiffin went quiet, Glenn believed Verge, and “Glenn Gullible” was born
TIGER RAG NEWS SERVICES Two minutes before Tiger Rag Radio went live Tuesday night, the show had already started. Not officially. Not on the stream. Not yet from the Super Chevy Dealers Studio. But the argument was already underway. Todd Horne and Glenn Guilbeau were talking about Lane Kiffin, Twitter, Vanity Fair, Ole Miss, LSU…
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Tiger Rag Radio Podcast June 2: An inside look at LSU’s pursuit of Easton Royal
We recap LSU’s big recruiting weekend and how strong of an impression did LSU make on 5-star wide receiver Easton Royal. It was a quiet weekend at Alex Box Stadium, but Jay Johnson and his coaching staff are busy digging through the transfer portal as they look to build the next Tigers championship team. The…
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Lane Kiffin DOES NOT Tweet For The Time Being After Vanity Fair Article Controversy
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor If you have not noticed, LSU football coach Lane Kiffin has not tweeted or even reposted tweets since May 11. That was the day the Vanity Fair cover story about Kiffin came out, and a storm of controversy followed concerning his comments about Ole Miss. Kiffin, who was Ole…
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JIM ENGSTER: Playoffs or Bust for Lane Kiffin
There was a time in college football when one loss spelled doom for any power vying for a national championship. Most of the winners were undefeated for generations, and LSU remains the lone titlist to finish at the top with two defeats. The Tigers were 12-2 in 2007 in year three of the Les Miles…
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Lane Kiffin Is Loved By National Writer Brandon Marcello Of CBSSports … He Tells Why On Tiger Rag Radio Podcast
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Brandon Marcello, a college football writer at CBSSports, covered Mississippi State, Auburn and Arkansas before becoming one of the best national writers in the country. He has watched new LSU coach Lane Kiffin from afar when he was head coach at Tennessee, offensive coordinator at Alabama under Nick Saban…
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Tiger Rag Radio Podcast May 26: SEC Spring Meetings Storylines; Kiffin Speaks And An LSU Men’s Golf Preview
We go over the many headlines surrounding the SEC Spring Meetings. CBS Sports Brandon Marcello gives us an up to the minute update on what’s happening in Miramar Beach, Florida as SEC leaders come together. We also hear from columnist and author Jeff Duncan of NOLA.com and the Baton Rouge Advocate who is writing a…
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Lane Kiffin Faces The Music At SEC Spring Meetings, And Most Of The Songs Were About Ole Miss
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Another reason why LSU football coach Lane Kiffin should not have brought up Ole Miss’ racial history as it pertains to recruiting in a recent Vanity Fair article played out Tuesday at the Southeastern Conference Spring Meetings. The former Ole Miss head coach the last six years was asked…
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Lane Kiffin Wises Up On Pardon My Take Podcast After Vanity Fair Mistake – From Now On, Just Emulate Nick Saban | Glenn Guilbeau
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU football coach Lane Kiffin – at least publicly – finally appeared to be moving on from Ole Miss on a “Pardon My Take” Podcast on Wednesday. Ole Miss people may not move on from Kiffin for years, but they are the jilted ones – not Kiffin, which he…
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Tiger Rag Radio Podcast: Will Wade signing pro players has the college basketball world up in arms
On this edition of Tiger Rag Radio, we begin the show talking about Will Wade’s pursuit of professional players (because the rules allow it) and how others in college basketball believe he’s ruining the sport, even though other schools do it. We hear from LSU softball coach Beth Torina as the Tigers head to Tuscaloosa…
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Lane Kiffin Tweets: Busy Week On Twitter For LSU’s Football Coach With That Vanity Fair Piece
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor LSU football coach Lane Kiffin did not have to tweet too much this week, considering the Vanity Fair feature on him published Monday that went viral for several days. Lane Kiffin is one of the most controversial and fiercely hated coaches in college football, following his shocking departure from…
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Lane Kiffin: Vanity Fair Writer Explains What Led To Kiffin Discussing Ole Miss Racial Image Issue
By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor Vanity Fair writer Chris Smith’s time in Baton Rouge last month to interview new LSU football coach Lane Kiffin started at the iconic Poor Boy Lloyd’s restaurant on Florida Street in downtown Baton Rouge. “And I picked up a copy right inside the door of the Tiger Rag money…
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Lane Kiffin’s Vanity Fair Problem Wasn’t That He Lied, It’s That Ole Miss Heard Him Tell the Truth
By TODD HORNE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR A few weeks ago, a Vanity Fair writer (Chris Smith) walked into a South Louisiana poboy shop and found a copy of Tiger Rag’s Money Issue. Not online. Not pushed through an algorithm. Not handed to him by an LSU administrator. A physical copy sitting there in Louisiana. He picked…