Lane Kiffin just can’t seem to help himself. Whether he’s calling out officiating, taking thinly veiled shots at rivals, or now, openly trolling the CFP committee, Kiffin’s knack for stirring the pot has made him a lightning rod and now a laughingstock with this one in college football circles. But his latest gripe—firing off tweets about the Rebels’ exclusion from the CFP, leaned the hard way when Joel Klatt torched him for it. But thanks to Unc’s and Ocho’s mention, he is a star now.

NFL legends Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson weren’t about to let Kiffin off the hook that easily on their famous celebrity-studded podcast Nightcap. The big 3× Super Bowl champion, TE and one of the GOAT former Bengals WR, meanwhile, took the banter to the next level during their reaction.

“Hey Lane, you can’t hate from outside the club,” Shannon Sharpe, as candid as the OGs are, joked. “I bet it’s lame as F in there… but you not in there, so you don’t know.” The duo’s playful critique highlighted a deeper truth about Kiffin’s plight—Ole Miss simply didn’t do enough to earn a spot in the playoffs.

Johnson piled on, saying, “You already know Lane loves to talk. This isn’t new; it’s part of his MO. But you can’t lose to the games they lost and complain.” He wasn’t wrong—losses to teams like an unranked Kentucky and poor this season, Florida Gators sealed the Rebels’ fate long before the committee made its final call.

It all started when Lane Kiffin decided to take a jab at the CFP committee during the SMU–Penn State matchup. “Way to keep us on the edge of our seats Committee …. Riveting,” the Ole Miss coach tweeted sarcastically, clearly frustrated with the Rebels’ omission while teams like Indiana and SMU punched their tickets.

But Fox Sports savior of the underdogs wasn’t having it. In a blistering response, Joel Klatt wrote, “If your team played half as well as you tweet, you likely would have been in.” Klatt’s words were sharp enough to cut through the Mississippi humidity, and for Kiffin, they probably stung more than any playoff snub.

And it’s not as though Ole Miss was without opportunities to bolster its case. The Rebels had moments this season where they could’ve turned heads, but instead, they fell short. “Didn’t they lose to Florida? Yeah, Florida was bad,” Johnson quipped. For a program aiming to join the elite tier, dropping winnable games is a surefire way to stay stuck on the outside looking in. Kiffin’s frustrations, while understandable, feel misplaced when the numbers and results don’t back him up.

Klatt’s retort, though, was the knockout punch in this exchange. It wasn’t just a takedown of Kiffin’s tweet—it was a commentary on Ole Miss as a whole. “He ain’t lie,” Sharpe said, echoing the sentiment. Indeed, while the Rebels flashed moments of brilliance, their inconsistency ultimately left them out of the conversation. And Lane Kiffin, instead of shouldering some of the blame, chose to vent his frustrations online, a move that rubbed many the wrong way.

When the receipts show a team that didn’t quite rise to the occasion. Yowza. If you are Kiffin, you might want to log off a bit after Klatt completely shut him down for being a bad sport.

Lane Kiffin, that was lame

Lane Kiffin hasn’t exactly kept his feelings to himself about Ole Miss being left out of the College Football Playoff. And honestly, he’s not wrong about how grueling life in the SEC can be. Which could have gone much better, but that childish remark was just Lame, Lane. “This is what you’re probably going to have to get used to as fans,” Kiffin said, as quoted by Michael Katz on X. “Teams having multiple losses in this conference… It’s just totally different.”

Kiffin didn’t mince words, either, when comparing the SEC to other conferences. “You might as well be in different leagues. Not conferences, leagues. Like, here’s the NFL, here’s the SEC, here’s those few Big Ten teams, and then here’s everybody else.”

Of course, not everyone is here for the SEC’s collective lament. Joel Klatt and other college football pundits have had their fill of Kiffin’s bellyaching. While the playoff committee may tweak its rankings approach down the line, it’s time to let the games do the talking!