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Lane Kiffin Trolled Mercilessly Over Incessant Whining After Tennessee Gets Blown Out

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The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff has brought about an incredible amount of whining about which teams got in and which teams were left out. Nobody, however, has done as much whining as Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin.

Kiffin’s Rebels missed out on an at-large spot after losses to 4-8 Kentucky and 6-6 Florida derailed an otherwise promising the season. But instead of looking in a mirror and figuring out how he managed to lose three games with Ole Miss’s most talented roster in recent history, maybe ever, Kiffin has instead decided to take to social media to complain incessantly for weeks on end.

Kiffin hammered home his point after Notre Dame blew out Indiana on Friday night. He did so again after Penn State routed SMU. But then something weird happened.

Just prior to kickoff between eighth-seeded Ohio State and No. 9 Tennessee, Kiffin sent the following tweet.

Tennessee Makes Lane Kiffin Look Bad With Blowout Loss To Ohio State

For the next three hours or so, the Buckeyes proceeded to take belts to a—- of the Volunteers. At the time of writing, Ohio State leads Tennessee 35-10 with 12 minutes left to play in the contest.

And yet, no Kiffin tweets about first-round blowouts and the committee getting it wrong. I guess that doesn’t apply when it’s a precious SEC team is the one getting embarrassed.

Kiffin may not have tweeted about the game. But that doesn’t mean Twitter users were going to let him off the hook.

This comes after FOX commentator Joel Klatt put Kiffin in a bodybag earlier in the day.

What gives, Lane? You’ve been tweeting at a rate that even Elon Musk would be proud of in recent weeks. Yet now, with one of your conference’s marquee teams on national television, you disappear? Do we need to call in a wellness check?

Or does Tennessee getting smacked just not fit the narrative that the SEC has 7 national-title caliber teams?