Lane Kiffin and the No. 8 Ole Miss Rebels improved to 7-1 with an impressive 34-26 road victory over the No. 13 Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday afternoon.
This seventh win of the year comes amid a firestorm of coaching rumors surrounding Kiffin, who’s been consistently named as a top candidate to replace Billy Napier as the Florida Gators’ new head coach in Gainesville.
Amid the swirling coaching search rumors, Kiffin landed some major contract news with Ole Miss on Saturday.
According to the details of his current deal with the Ole Miss Athletic Foundation, Kiffin gets an automatic one-year contract extension for notching his seventh win of the season in Norman.
The added year is worth $9 million with $7.2 million guaranteed, according to USA Today reporter Steve Berkowitz. Kiffin has already made $150,000 in bonus money so far this season.
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Kiffin openly addressed the Florida coaching job rumors with his team earlier this week.
“Lane Kiffin told me he usually doesn’t address those kind of coaching rumors in-season, because there’s so much more football to play, and there’s so many bigger things to focus on. But he’s actually going to do things differently today in their team meeting – he is going to address those (Florida) rumors with his players,” ESPN’s Molly McGrath reported on Friday, via On3 Sports.
“He’s going to talk to them about it and say: ‘Hey, this is what happens when you win. This is a compliment to our players, our staff and our entire program.’ He wants to talk to his players about it because there’s so many new guys on their team this year that haven’t dealt with it before.”
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For now, Kiffin is focused on his stellar 2025 campaign with Ole Miss. The Rebels’ lone loss of the season came against Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs last weekend, narrowly falling with 43-35 final score at Athens’ Sanford Stadium.
Ole Miss will welcome the unranked South Carolina Gamecocks for an SEC matchup at Oxford’s Vaught Hemingway Stadium next Saturday.
