The Ole Miss Rebels are waiting to find out what coach Lane Kiffin will decide his future looks like. While there have been reports that the program may allow him to coach in the College Football Playoff even if he takes the vacant LSU Tigers job, it seems that Ole Miss decided against it. Let’s take a deeper dive into who the reported interim coach would be in that case.
Ole Miss Rebels Will Announce Interim Coach if Lane Kiffin Leaves
ESPN’s Mark Schlabach is reporting that the Ole Miss Rebels are expected to name former New York Giants head coach Joe Judge as the program’s interim coach if Lane Kiffin decides to join the LSU Tigers. This seemingly gives us the answer to if Kiffin would be able to coach the program for the College Football Playoff if he were to accept the position with the LSU Tigers.
With Lane Kiffin expected to make an announcement regarding whether he will be returning to the team, this is an intriguing choice to make the interim coach. Judge has been the quarterbacks coach this season after being a senior analyst the year before. This was Judge’s first collegiate coaching job since being a special teams assistant for the Alabama Crimson Tide from 2009-11.
The only time that we have seen Joe Judge as a head coach was with the New York Giants in 2020-21. In that time, he finished 10-23 before being fired after two seasons. It will be intriguing to see if the Ole Miss Rebels hand him the keys to the program in the College Football Playoff.
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