CLEMSON — Lane Kiffin continues to run his mouth about how great his Ole Miss teams and the SEC are, and he continues to take shots at the ACC in trying to make his point. On Tuesday, he continued his verbal assault on the ACC and this time he took it a step further.

This time Kiffin attacked ACC Champion and perennial national power Clemson. In an article written by ESPN’s Heather Dinich, Kiffin used Clemson in a negative sense while trying to explain how metrics should be used to determine the 16 best teams for the College Football Playoff — and there shouldn’t be any guarantees for conference champions.

“I had a coach that played Clemson last year say, ‘Put Clemson on my schedule every week compared to playing SEC teams,'” Kiffin said. “But there might be years that also the ACC really does have real teams. It might change every year, but not where people are just in because [they win the conference championship] or even worse, you have a really good record in the conference, you’re the second team in the conference. You didn’t win the championship, but you only lost one or two games, but you didn’t play anybody.”

Kiffin is obviously still bitter about missing last year’s playoff, while watching Clemson get in after beating SMU in the ACC Championship Game. However, what Kiffin fails to mention is that his team lost three games last year, including two games to bad or average teams and did not win the SEC or even play for the SEC Championship.

The Rebels lost at home to a 4-8 Kentucky team (1-7 SEC) and then lost to a five-loss Florida team (8-5, 4-4 SEC) in the Swamp.

However, Kiffin’s arrogance about the SEC and his team continued to shine in the article.

According to Dinich, Kiffin said the 13-member selection committee should comprised “educated media people” who watch a lot of football — not people with affiliations to any schools, as is currently the case with sitting athletic directors who are recused from voting for their schools and leave the room during those discussions.

“What, are you gonna put Robert Kraft in to decide whether the Dolphins get in?” Kiffin said. “An AD of a school? Like, what?”

Clemson will get its opportunity to prove Kiffin wrong when the Tigers host the SEC’s LSU Tigers on Aug. 30 at Memorial Stadium in Clemson.

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