Dan Gartland

Good morning, I'm Dan Gartland. If you missed it over the holiday weekend, the latest video in our Stadium Wonders series was released on Thursday. I went to Appalachian State's Kidd Brewer Stadium, perhaps the best setting in college football. You can watch all nine videos in the series here.

👋 Kiffin bolts for LSU

🏈 NFL Week 13

🤔 Time to move on from Tomlin?

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Lane Kiffin's tenure as head coach at Ole Miss ended Sunday as he boarded a private jet bound for Baton Rouge while fans gathered on the tarmac to see him off with their middle fingers raised high. 

After weeks of highly publicized flirting with other SEC jobs, Kiffin is leaving Oxford to run the LSU program in the wake of Brian Kelly's departure. He will not coach the Rebels in the College Football Playoff later this month. Defensive coordinator Pete Golding has been named the new permanent head coach. 

Kiffin had long been rumored to be the top target for both LSU and Florida. Kiffin's family reportedly visited Baton Rouge and Gainesville in mid-November, with LSU officials reportedly sending a private plane for the trip there. All the while, Kiffin declined to address questions about his future with any specificity, and rumors percolated that, should he decide to leave Ole Miss, he'd still want to coach the team in the playoff. 

Kiffin said in a statement announcing his decision on Sunday that he was hoping to coach the Rebels in the postseason. 

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… things I saw yesterday:

5. Bo Nix's touchdown pass while falling to the ground. 

4. Connor Bedard's stickhandling in front of the net for the game-winning goal against the Ducks. (Bedard also had a nice no-look assist earlier in the game.)

3. Two great plays on both ends of the floor by Steven Adams. 

2. Puka Nacua's diving one-handed catch. 

1. A full-extension, one-handed grab by the Commanders' Treylon Burks. It isn't an exaggeration to say that's one of the greatest catches in NFL history. To make it even more impressive, Burks had surgery 14 days ago to repair a spiral fracture of his middle finger on the hand he used to make the catch. 

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