Kiffin is one of college football's top coaches. He has won 55 games in six years in Oxford and this season has guided Ole Miss to what is all but certain to be its first College Football Playoff appearance.

Leaving Ole Miss while it's in the College Football Playoff will ruffle some feathers, but that hasn't bothered Lane Kiffin before.

Kiffin could have made history at a place that lifted him up as much as the other way around. Instead, he became a coaching cliche.

Lane Kiffin left his one-loss Mississippi team Sunday to become the coach at LSU, taking over a program that has won national titles under three of its previous four coaches while saying he would have stayed to coach the Rebels in the postseason had he been allowed to.

Florida and LSU fired their coaches midseason, and turned their sights on Lane Kiffin. And he's the villain of this story?

Lane Kiffin started the fire, but it spread quickly when a different coach cooled on another SEC program's pursuit.

Shortly after reports indicated Florida was moving on from Lane Kiffin, On3 reported the Ole Miss head coach had made his decision.

Kiffin's tenure in Oakland was filled with tension between Kiffin and Davis, nearly instantly. Ahead of the 2007 NFL Draft, Kiffin apparently begged Davis to select receiver Calvin Johnson. Davis picked quarterback JaMarcus Russell instead, and the former LSU quarterback is regarded as one of the biggest busts in NFL history.