Ed Orgeron on who should be out of College Football Playoff, Lane Kiffin's move to LSU and his coaching plans

The College Football Playoff begins Friday, and emotions are moving precocious for respective instrumentality bases.

Notre Dame was ranked 10th successful the penultimate CFP rankings but missed the playoffs to some Alabama, which mislaid a 3rd game, and Miami, which were ranked little going into title play but bushed Notre Dame during the season, which seemingly took precedence.

Ed Orgeron did not person to interest astir his playoff presumption portion helium was coaching LSU to a rubric amid a cleanable play successful 2019, but helium has an thought of who should beryllium successful and retired this year.

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LSU manager Ed Orgeron runs disconnected the tract with his squad earlier an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Kentucky successful Lexington, Kentucky, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Clubb)

"I don't deliberation a squad with 3 losses ought to beryllium playing for the nationalist championship. Notre Dame should person got successful up of Alabama," Orgeron told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

Bama getting successful prompted calls of bias and/or collusion, considering the playoff is broadcast connected ESPN and ABC, the aforesaid web that the SEC has a large media rights woody with.

"The SEC was dominant. But now, the Big Ten, Big 12 are catching up. They've had the nationalist champ a mates of years now. I don't cognize what's happened with the SEC and bias, each that stuff. Is determination a accidental that they person it? I'm not going to get into that. But I bash cognize this — they're precise strong," Orgeron added.

The SEC figures to stay strong, arsenic Lane Kiffin went from Ole Miss to Orgeron's erstwhile LSU successful a arguable move. Orgeron, though, said Kiffin, his erstwhile workfellow astatine Tennessee and USC, made the close move, fixed helium hardly had a choice.

Mississippi Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin (left) and LSU Tigers caput manager Ed Orgeron (right) shingle hands aft a crippled astatine Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. (Petre Thomas/USA TODAY Sports)

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"Look, the timing of it, erstwhile helium did it, that's his choice. But helium had to bash it astatine that clip to get the occupation helium wanted. The calendar is incorrect successful assemblage football. I privation they had the regularisation similar the NFL, that you cannot speech to a manager until their play is over," Orgeron said.

As for proposal to get LSU backmost to the promised land?

"Keep connected doing what you're doing. He knows what he's doing. Recruit, measure similar he's doing. He's the king of the transportation portal. He'll beryllium capable to predominate the SEC similar he's been doing. Keep connected doing what you're doing."

Orgeron past coached successful 2021, but his vocation is surely not over. In fact, helium expects to beryllium determination soon, perchance adjacent facing Kiffin.

Then-LSU Tigers caput manager Ed Orgeron talks with backmost Joe Burrow aft a triumph against the Clemson Tigers successful the College Football Playoff nationalist title crippled astatine Mercedes-Benz Superdome. (Matthew Emmons/USA TODAY Sports)

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"We've been successful interaction with people. I would instrumentality a caput coaching job, doesn't person to beryllium a caput coaching job. I'll instrumentality a D-line manager oregon a recruiting coordinator, but the close concern hasn't been coming up. I'm successful a bully presumption wherever I could instrumentality a job, I don't person to instrumentality a job, but if the close concern comes up, I'm decidedly taking it and going to coach. I bash judge wrong the adjacent period thing whitethorn open, and I'll beryllium coaching again."

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