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Is LSU the best job in America? Nick Saban says it depends on how much money you can spend on the roster

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BATON ROUGE, La. – My colleague at On3, Andy Staples, recently ranked the open head coaching jobs in college football, and he had LSU at the top of the list.

Immediately, I nodded my head in agreement and then took it a step further: Is there a claim to be made that LSU is the top job in the country – period?“It’s in the top three, at the very least, no matter who you ask, and if somebody says it’s not, then they’re lying,” said former LSU All-SEC running back Jacob Hester, a captain on LSU’s 2007 national championship team and now the color analyst on the LSU Radio Network.

Opportunity for Lane Kiffin is ‘too big’ to stay at Ole Miss: ESPN insider

It’s become clear that Lane Kiffin is the top candidate for both the open Florida and LSU head coaching jobs.

“There’s no question that Lane Kiffin is the buzz, and he is on the lips of the power brokers at both Florida and LSU,” ESPN’s college football insider Pete Thamel said on “College Football Live” on Thursday. “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. The opportunity that looms at either LSU or Florida is too big.

“The variable here that’s going to be fascinating, that’s going to loom over the last two months of this season, is how the dynamics would work if Ole Miss does indeed make the Playoff, which they are on target to do right now if they keep winning as they have.”

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