Lane Kiffin posts hilarious reaction to Wake Forest replacing Ole Miss matchup with Oregon State
Wake Forest made headlines over the weekend when it opted to buy itself out of the return game in a scheduled home-and-home series with Ole Miss, following a 40-6 beatdown at the hand of Lane Kiffin and the Rebels.
And very quickly the Demon Deacons pivoted to a new series, adding a home-and-home series with Oregon State — 2025 at Oregon State and a return game at Wake Forest in 2029 or earlier.
After Action Network’s Brett McMurphy shared that news on Twitter, Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin chimed in with an emoji of a hand slapping a face. Check it out below.
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Kiffin had already vocalized his displeasure with Wake Forest breaking ‘an unwritten rule’ in the sport by canceling a game like that.
“Really, a very abnormal thing for Wake [Forest] to do,” Kiffin said. “You usually don’t do that in the season before. It’s hard. There’s not people to play. It’s why you do scheduling in advance, and you make deals, and you go and play there, and they come back.
“I would just say that’s rarely ever done. I’ve never really heard of doing it, and it really puts us at a big disadvantage. And it is what it is. Obviously, it wasn’t appreciated very much to put is in that situation. And now we got to go find somebody and most people are all scheduled up. And even when you find them, you got to go pay them. So, it’s kind of an unwritten rule not to do that actually.”
While it’s not unheard of to cancel a game, it is certainly unusual to do so immediately following a game.
And that game was not very favorable to Wake Forest.
In the win, Ole Miss’ offense steam-rolled over Wake Forest, tallying 649 total yards. Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart was efficient, completing 26-of-his-34 (76.5%) pass attempts. The Rebels’ defense excelled as well, squeezing three turnovers out of the Demon Deacons.
No matter what Wake Forest’s reason was for buying out its agreement with Ole Miss, Lane Kiffin was not happy.
“I find it really amazing that you wait until the week of the game to tell the team,” Kiffin said. “I mean if they thought they were going to disrupt us and [Wake Forest athletic director] John Currie was like, ‘Oh, we’re going to tell them the week of and disrupt them.’ So maybe that was their game plan.”
On3’s Grant Grubbs also contributed to this report.