College football analysts refuses to backtrack Lane Kiffin tweet

Jason Jones

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Josh Pate, the host of Josh Pate’s College Football Show has been at the forefront of Lane Kiffin leaving Oxford narratives for a while now. On November 23rd, Pate posted a tweet that has many fans asking questions.

College football fans tracking the day-to-day rumblings of Kiffin’s eventual decision has begun to play like Swifties searching for song lyric easter eggs. Every day someone seems to have an idea as to what Kiffin’s decision will be. Often, the reasoning is circumstantial or some version of adding up tea leaves that may not apply.

Pate’s tweet was only seven words long. He added no context, just a vague statement that would imply Pate knows something (or thinks he does) that the rest of us do not.

Lane Kiffin is currently linked to three primary programs. Stay at Ole Miss. Leave for LSU. Leave for Florida. While those are the two frontrunners to pry Kiffin away from Oxford, his name has also been floated with a handful of other programs as ‘also under consideration’. With the college football world treating what Kiffin will do as if it were the LeBron James Decision version 2.0.

According to Sports Illustrated, Pate recently stated that if he was forced to bet on the Kiffin decision, he currently expects Kiffin to be somewhere other than Oxford in 2026. After his November 23rd tweet, fans accused Pate of “engagement farming” with a vague unsubstantiated comment.

In Pate’s week 13 reaction show, he attempted to downplay the tweet claiming it was “sarcasm” and posted to have fun with the Kiffin obsession. Further explaining that fans have become obsessed with every rumor and “flight-tracking breadcrumb”.

Ole Miss is currently sitting in the No. 3 spot in the SEC standing right behind championship game favorites Texas A&M and Georgia. Ole Miss travels to Mississippi State for its final regular season game. That game will kick off at Noon ET and broadcast on ABC.

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