Lane Kiffin earns hefty bonus from former team's College Football Playoff win

Lane Kiffin turned retired to beryllium a large victor connected Saturday adjacent though helium didn’t manager a game.

The Ole Miss Rebels defeated the Tulane Green Wave successful the archetypal circular of the College Football Playoff. The Rebels’ triumph gave Kiffin a $250,000 payday acknowledgment to the presumption of his departure from the programme to instrumentality the LSU Tigers job.

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LSU caller caput manager Lane Kiffin speaks astatine South Stadium Club astatine Tiger Stadium connected Dec. 1, 2025. (Matthew Hinton/Imagn Images)

LSU agreed to wage his playoff bonuses if Ole Miss continued to triumph successful the Playoff, according to CBS Sports. If the Rebels marque a tally and triumph the nationalist championship, Kiffin could beryllium looking astatine a bonus of up to $1 million.

Ole Miss cruised to a 41-10 triumph implicit Tulane. Rebels backmost Trinidad Chambliss was banged up but inactive managed to decorativeness with 3 touchdowns successful the triumph – 2 rushing scores and 1 passing touchdown.

Kiffin offered his congratulations to Ole Miss for their win.

Tulane shot manager Jon Sumrall, left, and Mississippi shot manager Pete Golding confer anterior to the College Football Playoff game, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, successful Oxford, Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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"Congrats to each the coaches and players @OleMissFB and particularly @CoachGolding and seeing his 2 boys connected the sidelines," Kiffin wrote connected X. "Great triumph today."

It was Pete Golding’s archetypal triumph arsenic the caput manager astatine Ole Miss. With the unit connected Golding’s shoulders to measurement retired of the shadiness of Kiffin, helium said it was adjuvant to person players who "actually bask playing together, and they don’t privation it to end."

Ole Miss antiaircraft coordinator Bryan Brown had precocious praise for Golding’s "swag."

Lane Kiffin replaces Brian Kelly arsenic caput manager connected Dec. 1, 2025. (Matthew Hinton/Imagn Images)

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"He controls the room. He controls the communicative successful thing that helium wants to control," Brown said. "The guys judge successful him conscionable similar they bash defensively, and you tin spot it turning implicit to our afloat team. He conscionable is simply a large quality being, large coach, large motivator... and is going to beryllium a heck of a manager for a long, agelong time."

Fox News’ Chantz Martin contributed to this report.

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