What a week of drama for college football! Lane Kiffin, coaching changes, and the College Football Playoff have ruined the holidays for some fans while others are spreading their holiday cheer.
Lane Kiffin
The drama Lane Kiffin brings to college football is unmatched. He’s the guy who will make all of your dreams come true and then break up with you with a Post-it note. He will leave town in the middle of the night or get fired stepping off the plane. Kiffin will build you the best season in program history to leave you for your rival right before the biggest game in school history. The news of Lane Kiffin ditching Ole Miss for LSU is anything but surprising.
You can’t talk about Lane Kiffin without some Ho Ho Ho. His personal life should be a reality show and his social media is unhinged. Out of all of the tweets and pictures Kiffin has posted, the video of him confronting a reporter who called him a “ho”, might be my favorite.
Coaching Chaos
The coaching changes have been nuts. There are too many to talk about right now and there is a sweet opening at Coastal Carolina University. The real issue isn’t Kiffin leaving his team before the season is over; the issue is college football itself. When the transfer portal opens before the National Championship game, it’s the Wild, Wild West race for recruiting. You can’t wait for the season to end to start playing the portal game with NIL. Until the NCAA changes the transfer portal dates, the coaching chaos will continue to hurt the players, the fans, and college football.
College Football Playoff
If you want to be entertained, type in “College Football Playoff” in Twitter (or X, whatever it’s called these days) and enjoy the adult verbal meltdowns.
The CFP selection committee ranks the top 25 teams at the end of the regular season. The five highest- ranked conference champions and the next seven highest-ranked teams are seeded into a 12-team bracket based on the final ranking. This sounds pretty standard, but it’s actually total chaos. The top five college football conference champions, based on the final College Football Playoff rankings for 2025, were Indiana (Big Ten), Georgia (SEC), Texas Tech (Big 12), Tulane (American), and James Madison (Sun Belt).
The ACC didn’t have a conference champion bid and the only person to blame is the ACC. They expanded to a 17-team, division-less conference to compete for the TV revenue. Then, when it came time to decide who would play for the ACC Championship, they had too many teams with the same conference record and Duke won some wild, unknown tiebreaker process to play UVA for the ACC Championship. (Mom and Beka, it’s okay if you don’t understand; no one really understands.)
If you are still following along, Duke won the ACC Championship game. However, their overall 8 – 5 record wasn’t good enough to make the top 5 CFP conference champions list. So, this isn’t a “CFP screwed the ACC” this is 100% the ACC screwed themselves.
More CFP Chaos
If you have friends who are Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, BYU, UVA, or Texas fans, check on them, because they are not taking the CFP rankings well.
BYU lost their conference championship and got punished. At the same time, Alabama lost their conference championship and they got rewarded for it.
Notre Dame didn’t make the CFP and then declined their bowl invite. How embarrassing. Teaching your team it’s okay to opt out when life doesn’t go your way is a reflection of terrible coaching. Also, joining a conference and winning would have secured them a spot in the CFP.
Miami bumped the Irish out of the final rankings. Both teams were 10-2. However, Notre Dame lost to Miami week one and that was the reason the committee gave for choosing Miami over Notre Dame.
The outrage for JMU and Tulane being in the field of 12 has left grown men losing their minds. Don’t get mad at two schools who won their conference championships and then benefited from the ACC mess. Now, do I think they have a real chance of winning, absolutely not. But the CFP rules do not say the BEST 12 teams. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
More Drama
Then there’s Mike St. Clair who thinks ODU putting up more points against Indiana than any other team should count for something. Along with ODU beating Troy (JMU beat Troy to win the Sun Belt conference championship) 33-0 should have been taken into consideration for the CFP committee rankings. He’s joking, kind of, but he will use just about anything to shoutout his Monarchs.
This week proved that college football is unpredictable, dramatic, and somehow always entertaining. The coaching carousel will keep spinning, the transfer portal will keep NIL dollars flowing, and the college football playoff debate will never truly end or seem fair. Get a helmet, college football isn’t going to make sense anytime soon.
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Great writing as usual
Great writing as usual