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The disorder surrounding who will beryllium coaching No. 6 Ole Miss successful nan playoffs has reached a resolution, astatine slightest done nan semifinals.
LSU is allowing violative coordinator Charlie Weis Jr., who is pursuing Lane Kiffin from Ole Miss to Baton Rouge upon nan conclusion of nan season, to stay pinch nan Rebels for Thursday's College Football Playoff semifinal against No. 10 Miami.
Running backs coach Kevin Smith is besides slated to proceed coaching Ole Miss, ESPN reported.
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Mississippi Rebels caput coach Lane Kiffin (right) talks pinch violative coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. during lukewarm ups anterior to a crippled against nan Georgia State Panthers astatine Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. (Petre Thomas/Imagn Images)
Multiple cardinal coordinators and assistants agreed to contracts pinch LSU soon aft Kiffin bolted from nan Rebels, including violative coordinator Weis, tight ends coach/co-offensive coordinator Joe Cox, and wide receivers coach/passing crippled coordinator George McDonald. Cox and McDonald are not expected to coach Ole Miss connected Thursday.
New Ole Miss caput coach Pete Golding noted nan uncertainty of which coaches would beryllium disposable this weekend.
"They person each opportunity for illustration they person up to this constituent to beryllium capable to make that decision," Golding said Saturday. "So, week successful and week out, I don't dictate whether they do that aliases not, because they're not employed by me. Up to this point, that's really it's been, and that's my expectation."
Mississippi Rebels violative coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. watches during lukewarm ups anterior to nan crippled against nan Georgia Southern Eagles astatine Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. (Petre Thomas/Imagn Images)
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Ole Miss really barred Kiffin from finishing nan play pinch nan team. However, LSU agreed to salary Kiffin's College Football Playoff bonuses.
LSU had reportedly been targeting 3 cardinal players — backmost Trinidad Chambliss, moving backmost Kewan Lacy, and kicker Lucas Carneiro — from Ole Miss' quarterfinal win, but each 3 signed deals to stay pinch nan Rebels.
Ole Miss caput coach Pete Golding lifts nan Sugar Bowl trophy aft nan Sugar Bowl and College Football Playoff quarterfinals astatine Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans, Louisiana, connected Jan. 1, 2026. (Ayrton Breckenridge/Clarion Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
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The Rebels took down Tulane convincingly successful nan first information of nan playoffs earlier defeating Georgia, nan No. 3 seed, successful nan Sugar Bowl. The Rebels-Hurricanes victor will beforehand to look either No. 1 Indiana aliases No. 5 Georgia for nan nationalist championship.
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