Ole Miss Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin has become a social media star with his tweets on various subjects relating to college football. However, Fox Sports color commentator and former Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Joel Klatt has finally had enough of Kiffin’s crusade against the College Football Playoff, snapping back at the head coach in a social media spat on Saturday.
Joel Klatt Unloads On Ole Miss Head Coach Lane Kiffin Over College Football Playoff Social Media Meltdown
Kiffin hasn’t been afraid of voicing his opinion about the makeup of the College Football Playoff on social media since Selection Day favored the ACC runner up SMU Mustangs over several SEC teams, including the Alabama Crimson Tide and his own Ole Miss team. As SMU floundered against the Penn State Nittany Lions, the Rebels head coach fired off another beligerent post.
Way to keep us on the edge of our seats Committee …. Riveting
— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) December 21, 2024
That proved enough to invoke a snappy, quick-witted retort from Fox Sports analyst Klatt, himself not shy from speaking his mind on the state of college football on social media.
If your team played half as well as you tweet you would likely be in https://t.co/tgpIFpxo8I
— Joel Klatt (@joelklatt) December 21, 2024
Klatt isn’t wrong. Kiffin has bolstered his image in the eyes of college football fans with his open attitude toward using social media. He’s often humorous and quick-witted himself, but has fallen into the trap of using social platforms like X to bolster an agenda ahead of, during, and since, the release of the College Football Playoff rankings earlier this month.
Sure, the quality of the first two games of the new 12-team format for the College Football Playoff has left a little to be desired.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish bullied the Indiana Hoosiers off the park on Friday night, and Penn State are in the process of doing the same to SMU in the opening battle of a Saturday triple-header.
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However, if Ole Miss hadn’t dropped games to a terrible Kentucky Wildcats team, lost to an LSU Tigers team that was ranked below the Rebels when they met, and succumbed to an unranked Florida Gators team, they might have played in the SEC Championship Game or even been a legitimate at large contender for the 12-team tournament.
Klatt, who threw for 7,708 yards and 46 touchdowns in his four-year career with Colorado, has a valid point. If Ole Miss had handled their business on the field and walked the walk as well as their head coach had talked the talk, Kiffin might be on the sidelines this weekend rather than sitting idly at home watching the game on TV, with one hand on the social media trigger.
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