{"id":647307,"date":"2026-01-02T05:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647307\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:14:13","slug":"lane-kiffin-sends-immediate-reaction-to-ole-miss-win-over-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647307\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin Sends Immediate Reaction to Ole Miss\u2019 Win Over Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lane Kiffin left the Ole Miss Rebels after the team’s 11-1 finish in the regular season, taking his new head coaching job with the LSU Tigers.<\/p>\n

Under newly-hired head coach Pete Golding, the Rebels rolled through their first-round College Football Playoff<\/a> matchup against Tulane \u2014 taking down the Green Wave with a 41-10 final score. And on Thursday night, the team continued its program-best campaign with a thrilling Sugar Bowl victory over the Georgia<\/a> Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

Ole Miss fought back to overcome a fourth-quarter deficit against Georgia, notching a 39-34 final score at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium. <\/p>\n

With the score tied at 34-34 in the final minute of the game, Rebels quarterback Trinidad Chambliss drove down the field and put his team in position for the go-ahead field goal. The game ultimately came to a close after the Georgia offense gave up a safety on a desperation lateral play. <\/p>\n

Though Kiffin is now preparing for his first season in Baton Rouge, he’s still keeping an eye on the team he coached for the entire 2025 regular season.<\/p>\n

The LSU head coach posted a Trinidad and Tobago flag on social media immediately after the Rebels’ victory, referencing the stellar performance put forth by his former quarterback.<\/p>\n

Chambliss finished the game with 362 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions on 30\/46 passing.<\/p>\n

More Football: Lane Kiffin Calls Out Nick Saban After Ole Miss-Georgia Pick<\/a><\/p>\n

Kiffin has continually voiced his support for the Rebels since his departure for LSU.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was awesome,\u201d Kiffin said after Ole Miss’ first-round win over Tulane. \u201cIt was a great day. It really was. I\u2019m not just saying that. To watch those guys and how much they were smiling having that success.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the biggest game in the history of the state of Mississippi,” he added. “To blow out Tulane like that, it was awesome watching them. I was really excited for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lane<\/p>\n

With Thursday night’s Sugar Bowl win over No. 3 seed Georgia, No. 6 seed Ole Miss now turns its attention toward a Fiesta Bowl matchup against the No. 10 seed Miami Hurricanes. If the Rebels continue their run with a win next weekend, they’ll face off against either No. 1 seed Indiana or No. 5 seed Oregon in the College Football Playoff national championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin left the Ole Miss Rebels after the team’s 11-1 finish in the regular season, taking his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[332,7,629,1564,978,49,48,899,20062],"class_list":["post-647307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-football","tag-georgia","tag-lane-kiffin","tag-lsu","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ole-miss","tag-sugar-bowl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115823802091342152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}