Of all the bizarre turns, alliances, double-dealing and skulduggery of the 2023 college football season, the strangest twist — non-Connor Stalions division — might just be the fact that Lane Kiffin has the potential to upend the College Football Playoff.
Mississippi head coach Lane Kiffin watches on during warm ups before an NCAA college football game against Texas A&M in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. Yes, Lane Kiffin, college football’s trickster god of golf balls and mustard bottles, tarmac firings and popcorn boxes, is about to get his chance to unleash chaos on a national scale … or, at the very least, make a whole bunch of one-loss teams sweat out the next few weeks.
That’s a hell of a resume and a hell of a fight, and you can tell by the fact that Kiffin isn’t teasing Georgia the way he mocked pretty much everyone, even including Nick Saban, in the run-ups to their games earlier this year. It’s a lot easier to taunt a puppy that’s in the window than a wolf that’s on the trail right in front of you.
One key, especially given that this is a night game in Athens, will be Ole Miss’ third-down performance. Georgia converts on third down a best-in-the-country 56.3% of the time, while Ole Miss ranks 111th at 32.3%. Georgia allows third-down conversions only 28.2% of the time, while the Rebels’ defense allows conversions on 41.2% of third downs. That’s a crucial stat for both downfield movement and momentum, and Kiffin will need to break out a gambling mindset to cut against those numbers.
“There are going to be games you play the best players in college football, especially in this conference on defense,” Kiffin said. “Those games are going to happen. You better have something creative, or it doesn't work. Talent wins a lot of games. You have to find a way to neutralize that at times.”
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