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On Lane Kiffin decision day, Ole Miss football can make the SEC Championship Game depending on the outcome of the Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn
Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin is preparing for a possible SEC championship game in the midst of his LSU, Florida decision
Georgia will get a chance to defend its SEC championship, and it could come against the Bulldogs’ nemesis, Alabama. Alternatively, it could come against Ole Miss, perhaps delaying coach Lane Kiffin’s decision on whether to leave Oxford.
Updated Friday at 10:30 p.m. CT: The Texas Longhorns defeated the Texas A&M Aggies 27-17, meaning the Georgia Bulldogs have officially qualified for the SEC Championship game. Georgia will play Alabama if the Crimson Tide win the Iron Bowl, but will play Ole Miss if Auburn is able to upset Alabama in Jordan-Hare Stadium.
Former Alabama coach Nick Saban said Ole Miss should let Lane Kiffin coach the Rebels in the SEC Championship even if he's leaving for another school.
Georgia will play for the SEC Championship next week, like it or not. The Beltline debate is simply a symptom of FBS college football's current crossroads -- a postseason stitched together by overlapping solutions that other levels of the sport perfected long ago, yet still hasn't quite landed here.