Kiffin's decision comes less than a month before the Rebels are expected to embark on their first College Football Playoff appearance in program history. Ole Miss also won its program-record 11th regular season game with Friday's 38-19 victory over rival Mississippi State.

Kiffin and Co. continue assembling a coaching staff in Baton Rouge, adds another key component to success.

Ole Miss football lost two commitments to LSU and ex-coach Lane Kiffin on the eve of early signing day, but the Rebels also flipped one Tigers commit.

Kiffin met with Ole Miss leadership the day after the Egg Bowl as it became more apparent that he intended to leave for LSU. However, Kiffin wanted clearance to continue coaching the Rebels through the postseason. The idea that was met with understandable hesitancy from the Ole Miss administration.

The other coaches are tight ends coach Joe Cox, wide receivers coach George McDonald, inside wide receivers coach Sawyer Jordan, strength and conditioning coach Nick Savage and senior execute director of player personnel Mike Williams.

Ole Miss predictably declined to do so, leading to a contentious statement from Kiffin on Sunday in which he claimed athletic director Keith Carter turned him down "despite the team also asking him to keep coaching them so they could better maintain their high level of performance."

Lane Kiffin will still be rewarded for Ole Miss' postseason success, while he wouldn't receive all the money he's owed if he's fired from LSU.

Immediately after dad was announced as the new LSU coach, Landry and her star linebacker boyfriend jetted off together to New York.

Former ESPN host and current podcaster Bomani Jones took issue with Ole Miss deciding to promote Pete Golding, saying his picture alone showed he “isn’t a head coach."