To recap:
Kiffin played the game of “I’m letting my assistants coach” to make himself look better, thinking there was no way they would actually win these games without him.
Now that Ole Miss has made it to the semi-finals without him, he’s backtracking.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Pete Golding, on the job just a month, has more CFP wins than Lincoln Riley, Brian Kelly and Urban Meyer plus as many as Jim Harbaugh, Kalen DeBoer and James Franklin.