Pete Thamel's prediction for Lane Kiffin's future is Ole Miss fans worst nightmare

Lane Kiffin has had plenty of chances to leave Ole Miss football if he wanted to in the past five years.

However, ESPN's Pete Thamel believes that the coaching vacancies this time around might be too irresistible for Kiffin to turn down.

"Lane Kiffin is the buzz. He’s on the lips of the power brokers at both Florida and LSU. Look, what Ole Miss has helped him build there has been incredible…Right now it’s hard to imagine Lane Kiffin coaching at Ole Miss next year," Thamel said, sending shockwaves through the Ole Miss Rebels fanbase.

"The opportunity that looms at either LSU or Florida is too big. The variable here that’s going to be fascinating and that’s going to loom over the last two months of this season is how the dynamics would work if Ole Miss indeed does make the playoff.

The 7-1 Rebels look in a solid shape to make it to the college football playoff this time, and have a successful run there too. Yet, Thamel expects some advancement in Kiffin's coaching rumors during that time.

"The College Football Playoff does not start until December 19th. It would either be a high-wire act, where whatever [program] wants Lane, and has some kind of agreement with Lane maybe verbally, keeps the job open and waits for it to happen, or they announce it beforehand, which would be awkward too.”

If Ole Miss Rebels do make it to the playoffs, which they almost certainly would looking at their remaining schedule, Kiffin leaving after it would make zero sense.

The Ole Miss football coach has build his distinct culture in the locker room alongside a roster that is an offensive machine over five years. During those years, his name had been rumored with equally tempting schools as Florida or LSU.

If he didn't leave Oxford during Ole Miss's revamping phase, believing that he will when they finally look like a college football playoff team sounds like a pipe dream.