Mississippi keeps CFP run going with Sugar Bowl defeat of Georgia with Lane Kiffin nearby

Dan Lanning calls for earlier playoff start and home games after CFP win Dan Lanning urges earlier playoff schedule and home games following Oregon’s Orange Bowl victory. NEW ORLEANS — Lane Kiffin held hands with Kim Mulkey at a women’s basketball game while the football team he built for a rival school prepared to play its biggest game in program history. It’s all still a little surreal. Ninety minutes before kickoff of a College Football Playoff quarterfinal against Georgia, Mississippi fans inside the Superdome roared in support of Pete Golding, Kiffin’s successor, as he headed toward the locker room. They’ve crowned their new king. He wins playoff games. Eighty miles northwest of here on...