Lane Kiffin's LSU: Push for SEC Title & Playoff in 2026

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00:00Maybe the team with the most hype surrounding 2026, and that's Lane Kiffin and LSU.

00:07There's hype.

00:08There's buzz.

00:09He's going to collect $91 million over seven years taken over for Brian Kelly, but this

00:15team hasn't cracked the college football playoff just yet since they've expanded to

00:2012 teams, and it's do or die in Death Valley, even in year number one, because this team

00:27has the potential and the tools and the players to really make a run.

00:33They do have Sam Levitt now.

00:34They have Caden Durham.

00:36They do have Harlem Berry coming back.

00:38They have the foundation.

00:40They'll lose some defensive talent like Harold Perkins that now has moved on to the NFL draft,

00:46but with Sam Levitt at the helm and Lane Kiffin's offense, this team is poised potentially for

00:51a 10 or an 11-win season.

00:54Yeah, not just Sam, and Sam's the biggest name.

00:56I thought he was probably the best quarterback in the draft, but they still, LSU has the

01:01number one portal draft of the country right now, and I think the most players, so he's

01:06loaded up with great football players, but you're right.

01:09It's not a two or three years down the road thing.

01:12Lane Kiffin needs to play for an SEC championship and or make the playoffs.

01:17He can't go somewhere in between.

01:18Now, they haven't made the playoffs yet, so I'm not saying he's got to win the national

01:22championship right now, and even if he didn't win the SEC championship, he needs to put them

01:27in the SEC championship game, put them in the playoffs, and he hasn't denied the fact

01:36that he believes that's where he's going to take them.

01:38They all believe he's going to take them there, and so I don't know if you call it pressure,

01:43but if he doesn't feel it now, he'll feel it by the time we get to the end of the season

01:46next year.

01:48Absolutely, and we had that sort of hype with Brian Kelly.

01:52He won the SEC West in his first season.

01:55He knocked off Nick Saban in overtime in Death Valley and then regressed year to year to year

02:00to where he was fired midseason.

02:02Fans are expecting Lane Kiffin to come in and turn this team around immediately, and we'll

02:10see exactly if they could do it.

02:11Nine and a half win total this year, Coach, already in year number one, so the expectation

02:17very high for the Bayou Bengals.