Paul Finebaum: Lane Kiffin once again has missed the moment with Ole Miss' loss to Kentucky

Lane Kiffin missed the moment, according to Paul Finebaum, as Ole Miss was upset at home versus Kentucky.

In a year where Ole Miss looked like a wagon, and a bonafide playoff team, it came to a screeching halt Saturday. Same old Ole Miss right?

That’s what it seems like to Finebaum and the schedule doesn’t get any easier.

“Well, I think they can afford another loss, but that’s it,” Finebaum said on McElroy and Cubelic. “So you look at the schedule. If they lose, Ole Miss, in two weeks, they are going to be on the brink the rest of the way. That means they’re going to have to beat Georgia home and everything else that they deal with, and I don’t think they can do it. To me, this season was about getting to the playoffs. I felt like if Lane Kiffin did not make the playoffs with his best team, maybe the best team in 50 or 60 years at Ole Miss, this season was a bust.

“We haven’t gotten to that point, but he lost the wrong game. And I know that’s not giving credit to Mark Stoops. We’re talking about Ole Miss here, and this was the game that Ole Miss had to find a way to win and once again, Lane Kiffin has missed the moment.”

Ole Miss travels to South Carolina next week before hosting LSU prior to a bye week. Kiffin and crew probably can’t afford another loss before taking on Georgia in November.

Oh yeah, the schedule includes a home date with Oklahoma after that bye week.

“No reason to say they’re not (same old Ole Miss) Greg, because I didn’t think they were. I thought they had changed,” Finebaum said. “The problem now is, as you look at Ole Miss and Georgia, one suffered a loss against what’s now the number one team in the country, the other one lost at home. 

“The calculus is far worse for Ole Miss, that schedule did not help them when they played a physical team, and I think they have a really, very difficult path right now to the playoffs. If they don’t get to the playoffs, it creates a whole other side show and side story about Lane Kiffin and his commitment to Ole Miss and whether or not he would consider leaving.”