Top Auburn football coaching candidate may have flown to Nebraska for meeting

There’s nothing that gets college football die-hards going like tracking the trajectory of private flights from areas of interest to others. Deion Sanders’ potential flight from Jackson, Mississippi to the Plains got many Tiger fans excited about the prospect of ‘Prime Time’ becoming the next Auburn football head coach.

Now, another top candidate for the Auburn football head coaching role — that being Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin — is having his flight information tracked, though this time, it wasn’t to East Central Alabama.

Instead, the Lincoln, Nebraska native allegedly flew from Oxford, Mississippi to his hometown on October 16. Of course, the Nebraska Cornhuskers head coaching role has been vacant since Scott Frost was dismissed following a Week 2 loss to Georgia Southern at home.

Here was the flight information via Huskers Talk’s Twitter account:

Auburn football, nor Nebraska, are better landing spots for Lane Kiffin than Ole Miss

Lane Kiffin has a great thing at Ole Miss at the moment, even if fans sometimes prefer being on The Grove on gameday than filling up the student section — something Kiffin himself has called out. Vaught-Hemingway Stadium filled up for the 11 A.M. Auburn football game on October 15, but a Week 4 matchup with Tulsa caused Kiffin to snap at the media in the post-game media scrum after the Rebels didn’t score at all in the second half and won a one-score game against their Group of Five opponent:

"“Were you at the game? I must’ve been at a different one. It is what it is. Looking around it wasn’t very full and obviously at half the students left, too. When you don’t score in the second half of a game, you’re not going to criticize the fans. I’ve got to do a better job of motivating the players.”"

Even if fans didn’t show up to Tulsa, Kiffin has sustainable success in Oxford as he continues to utilize the transfer portal to find starters — Jaxson Dart being the most notable during the 2022 cycle — and hunt for diamonds in the rough out of high school, such as Pike Road running back Quinshon Judkins, who just went for 139 yards against the Tigers.

Jumping to Nebraska, who ranked outside the top 40 in 2022 and is currently outside the top 50 in recruiting for 2023, would be foolish. Making the move across state lines to Auburn football would be less so, but even still, his expectations would be far higher.

Sticking with Ole Miss and shedding the label of being a job-hopper would be Kiffin’s best career move in Fly War Eagle’s opinion.