After weeks and weeks of courtship and a day of will-he-or-won't-he speculation that draped over Oxford, Miss., like a mist, former Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin made the decision to leave the Rebels, poised for their first-ever College Football Playoff appearance, to become the next coach of the LSU Tigers. Stunning enough was the decision Kiffin made to leave a national championship contender before its playoff run even began. But even more stunning was the fact that Kiffin did so for one of the Rebels' biggest SEC rivals in the Tigers.
But that means that the two parties will come face-to-face as opponents, making for must-see television in the future.
