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The College Football Playoff begins Friday and emotions are running high for many fans.
Notre Dame was ranked 10th in the CFP’s next-to-last rankings, but missed the playoffs to Alabama, which lost a third game, and Miami, who were ranked lower heading into championship weekend but beat Notre Dame during the season, which apparently took priority.
Ed Orgeron didn’t have to worry about his playoff status while coaching LSU to a title amid a perfect season in 2019, but he has an idea of who should come and go this year.
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LSU coach Ed Orgeron runs off the field with his team before an NCAA college football game against Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Clubb)
“I don’t think a three-loss team should be playing for the national championship. Notre Dame should have gotten there before Alabama,” Orgeron told Pak Gazette Digital in a recent interview.
Bama’s entry sparked calls of bias and/or collusion, considering the playoffs are broadcast on ESPN and ABC, the same network with which the SEC has a major media rights deal.
“The SEC was dominant. But now, the Big Ten, the Big 12 are catching up, they’ve had the national champion for a couple of years now. I don’t know what’s happened with the SEC and the bias, all that. Is there a chance they have it? I’m not going to go into that. But I do know this: They’re very strong,” Orgeron added.
The SEC believes it will stay strong, as Lane Kiffin moved from Ole Miss to Orgeron’s former LSU in a controversial move. Orgeron, however, said Kiffin, his former colleague at Tennessee and USC, made the right decision, given that he had no other choice.
Mississippi Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin (left) and LSU Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron (right) shake hands after a game at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. (Petre Thomas/USA TODAY Sports)
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“Look, the timing, when he did it, that’s his choice. But he had to do it then to get the job he wanted. The schedule is bad in college football. I wish they had a rule, like the NFL, that you can’t talk to a coach until the season is over,” Orgeron said.
As for any advice for LSU returning to the promised land?
“Keep doing what you’re doing. He knows what he’s doing. He recruits, evaluates how he’s doing it. He’s the king of the transfer portal. He’ll be able to dominate the SEC like he’s been doing. Keep doing what you’re doing.”
Orgeron last trained in 2021, but his career is certainly not over. In fact, he hopes to be somewhere soon, potentially even facing Kiffin.
LSU coach Ed Orgeron runs off the field with his team before an NCAA college football game against Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Clubb)
“We’ve been in contact with people. I would take a head coaching job, it doesn’t have to be a head coaching job. I’ll take a D-line coach or a recruiting coordinator, but the right situation hasn’t come up. I’m in a good position where I could take a job, I don’t have to take a job, but if the right situation comes up, I’ll definitely take it and go train. I think within the next month something may open up, and I’ll be training again.”
