Lane Kiffin Compares SEC Schedules To The NFL, Takes Shot At Other Conferences

During the SEC Coaches Teleconference on Wednesday, Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin explained how difficult navigating an SEC schedule is and even compared the conference to playing in the NFL.

In the process of his explanation, Kiffin threw some shade at other conferences in college football. Per On3:

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“Kirby and I have talked about that a lot,” Lane Kiffin said. “I think that is really something that’s not given much credit to and understanding, and then in the rankings — it’s like the NFL. Every week. Different than the NFL, you go 10-6, 9-7, you make the playoffs, okay, good job. That’s not what happens in this conference. As you go to nine games, it’s going to be more of that.”

“There’s a coach in this conference that came from a different conference and said, ‘Man, now I get it. It’s totally different. Where I was in that conference before that’s considered really good, but we only really had to mentally get cranked up three times a year and deal with intense road games, also on top of that.’ So, it’s totally different. And my issue when it comes to evaluation going into a Playoff system from a committee,” Kiffin said.

“But it’s like you don’t understand that and how different it is, especially as you go to nine games. You’re going to have some really good 8-4 teams, like really good. That could be four one possession games. [Those teams] are going to be better, but you’re not gonna know that because you have teams in these conferences that go 10-2. So, whatever, that’s down the road, but that’s coming. As you add another conference game, there’s even more of that, but yes.”

“So, Kirby talked about it. It is a grind. I’m not complaining about the work part. It’s a grind on the kids to do that and be able to get up,” Kiffin said. “And it’s why you see, in my opinion, these games happen where they’re not really up, and here’s an upset where they were favored by 16, 17. How can that happen? Well, it happens because they’ve got a bunch of these.”

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Following a 41-35 win over Arkansas last week, Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels will face 3-0 Tulane this Saturday in Oxford before No. 3 LSU comes to town on September 27.