Lane Kiffin is 119 and 53 as a college head coach and 5 and 15 in the NFL. That record comes from six head coaching jobs over 19 years, and the shape of it is unusual: one disaster in Oakland, two abrupt exits at Tennessee and USC, a rebuild at Florida Atlantic that nobody expected to work, and six seasons at Ole Miss that produced the best stretch in that program’s history. He is now 3 and 0 in his first season at LSU.
Record by Stop
| Team | Years | Record | How it ended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland Raiders | 2007 to 2008 | 5 and 15 | Fired by Al Davis four games into his second season |
| Tennessee | 2009 | 7 and 6 | Left for USC after one season |
| USC | 2010 to 2013 | 28 and 15 | Fired at the airport after a loss at Arizona State, five games into 2013 |
| Florida Atlantic | 2017 to 2019 | 26 and 13 | Left for Ole Miss after the 2019 Conference USA title game |
| Ole Miss | 2020 to 2025 | 55 and 19 | Left for LSU after the 2025 regular season, before the playoff |
| LSU | 2026 to present | 3 and 0 | First season |
Season by Season
| Year | Team | Record | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Raiders | 4 and 12 | Youngest head coach in modern NFL history at 31 |
| 2008 | Raiders | 1 and 3 | Fired September 30 |
| 2009 | Tennessee | 7 and 6 | Chick-fil-A Bowl loss to Virginia Tech, then left for USC |
| 2010 | USC | 8 and 5 | Bowl ban from NCAA sanctions |
| 2011 | USC | 10 and 2 | Bowl ban; finished No. 6 in the AP poll |
| 2012 | USC | 7 and 6 | Started the season ranked No. 1 |
| 2013 | USC | 3 and 2 | Fired September 29 |
| 2017 | Florida Atlantic | 11 and 3 | Conference USA champion, Boca Raton Bowl win |
| 2018 | Florida Atlantic | 5 and 7 | Only losing season in college |
| 2019 | Florida Atlantic | 10 and 3 | Conference USA champion; left before the bowl, which FAU won without him |
| 2020 | Ole Miss | 5 and 5 | Outback Bowl win over Indiana in the pandemic season |
| 2021 | Ole Miss | 10 and 3 | First 10 win regular season in school history |
| 2022 | Ole Miss | 8 and 5 | Started 7 and 0, lost five of the last six |
| 2023 | Ole Miss | 11 and 2 | Peach Bowl win over Penn State, school record for wins at the time |
| 2024 | Ole Miss | 10 and 3 | Beat No. 3 Georgia; Gator Bowl win over Duke |
| 2025 | Ole Miss | 11 and 1 | Regular season only; Pete Golding coached the playoff run to the semifinal |
| 2026 | LSU | 3 and 0 | In progress |
What the Record Shows
The number that defines Kiffin is not the overall mark but the split between how he arrived and how he left. Three of his first four jobs ended with him fired or gone within two seasons. The last two, at Florida Atlantic and Ole Miss, ended with him leaving on his own terms for a bigger job after winning a conference title or posting the program’s best season. The coach LSU hired is the second version.
His seven 10 win seasons came at three different programs, and five of them came in the last six years. The only losing season of his college career, 5 and 7 at FAU in 2018, sits between two Conference USA championships.
One detail that gets misreported: Ole Miss finished 13 and 2 in 2025, but two of those wins and the loss belong to Pete Golding, who coached the playoff after Kiffin left for LSU on November 30. Kiffin’s Ole Miss record is 55 and 19, not 57 and 20.
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