Lane Kiffin followed Nick Saban's footsteps, trading the postseason for LSU.

College football calendar not to blame for Lane Kiffin taking LSU job, not coaching Ole Miss in playoff.

Nick Saban left Michigan State for LSU. Would have have stayed with Spartans if 12-team playoff existed? Hmm.

BATON ROUGE, LA – Imagine a college sports world in which the transfer portal didn’t exist and national signing day didn’t occur until after the season.

Now, imagine LSU had a coaching vacancy in that world.

When would LSU make the hire? Would LSU wait until after the season, and would its top target wait to accept?

We know that wouldn’t happen, because we’ve lived in the world I asked you to imagine. We saw what happened.

In 1999, the college football calendar looked much different. The tran

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